We are batted to and fro, with no definitive answer given.
He has batted himself, taken off his pads and has gone.
I am sure that their constituents will be proud of the way in which they batted on their behalf.
All too often, we are batted away with bogus claims about commercial confidentiality.
However, week after week he batted not an eyelid for a moment.
That argument is batted back and forth by the warring parties, and we do not seem to move forward.
One year, the villages to the north are selected and the next the villages to the south, so the problem is batted about.
So the responsibility is batted backwards and forwards.