The shutters are down

Posted by Sameer on August 16, 2007

Sometimes I have heard commentators in cricket say "shutters are down" when the batsman is not scoring runs. Could u please interpret the meaning for me? I am not able to get the gist of what they say.

• The shutters are down James Briggs 17/August/07
  • The shutters are down RRC 18/August/07