знатоки крикета, помогите, пожалуйста gen.

[lavazza]

I loved cricket and was generally pretty good at it, but this had been a game in which I had an uncharacteristically timid outing with the bat and before I’d contributed a single run I was clean bowled without so much as a ‘wave of the English Willow’!

как правильно перевести outing with the bat, contribute a single run и clean bowled without so much as a ‘wave of the English Willow’?

[Rengo]

биты делают из дерева плакучей ивы
Автор выбывал из игры, не успев еще и битой взмахнуть

[rebelpants]

Outing with the bat:
'Outing' here means a public appearance (as a batsman)