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What is Nighthawk in cricket?

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England’s current Test team, under Brendon McCullum's tutelage and Ben Stokes's captaincy, has seen a change in that concept, with the nightwatchman becoming a nighthawk. A nightwatchman’s role is to block out deliveries and mostly play defensively in order to preserve his wicket as well as protect that of the frontline batters when play on a particular day is heading towards its end.