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Sentence Examples He can swing the ball late and is nippy enough to worry batsmen on a track that has pace and bounce. Three maidens and a wicket in the first five overs increased the pressure on the Dolphins batsmen as they set off chasing a big target. In their quest to chase down the target of 314 runs, Zimbabwean batsmen looked rusty throughout and surrendered to the Bangladeshi bowlers. Where others looked at spinners, seamers and batsmen, he saw folk heroes, comics and tragedians. He was a left arm seamer and opening batsmen who played two first class matches. Normally the bowlers will bowl, the batsmen will bat and everyone will field. At present everyone seems to have stronger bowling teams than batting, so they are putting all the batsmen under pressure. Both batsmen timing the ball with precision, batted with charm and aggression. Stillington made major inroads into Harrogate's batting as they dismissed three home batsmen for ducks. On his day Brad is unquestionably one of the most attractive batsmen in Australian cricket. If you bowl outside the line, most batsmen, once they've picked the line, are not going to play. We got a lot out of that game as far as batsmen getting time in the middle and the bowlers having a good work-out. The lack of patience from their batsmen has often been the bane of Bangladesh's cricket team. The Indians should target the first four batsmen and keep the pressure on the rest of the batting. He swings the ball enough to trouble batsmen, but not enough to be a force when the pitch is slow and the ball is holding up. What is good for cricket is that great bowlers should be allowed to bowl to great batsmen. Both are batsmen of skill and determination, and their reputations are at stake. It would be extremely unfair to start messing around with the batsmen after one game. He's not going to get wickets against the Aussie batsmen and he's not going to make any runs. I used to rely on watching good batsmen and try and mould myself accordingly. Show More Sentences I had plenty of faith in my bowlers to get the batsmen out without sledging them. The batsmen are set for a less stressful few weeks, with Ponting encouraging them to put their feet up. Both batsmen got in some early practice, taking advantage of friendly bowling from the PCA XI and a fast outfield. He moved the ball around off the pitch and found holes where they shouldn't exist for top-flight batsmen. India are likely to go into the match with seven specialist batsmen and four bowlers against strong Sri Lankans. Among the batsmen, Jaffer boosted his aggregate with a knock of 218 against Warwickshire in the last match of the tour. He had come to India to bowl those Indian batsmen out and not to get killed by Wes Hall. The trouble is that his natural delivery is just back of a length and if he is not in the groove, he pitches too short and the batsmen cash in. Laker and Bailey started towards the ball, hesitated, and the batsmen scrambled a single. They scored at more than five an over throughout, their batsmen hitting 10 sixes and 54 fours in 79.2 overs. They have also chosen to distribute sweets whenever batsmen scored a sixer and a boundary or a bowler bagged a crucial wicket. He was underrated not just by us that day, but also by one of the greatest opening batsmen in history. The game ended prematurely when his batsmen walked off at the start of their innings amid claims of sledging. None of the batsmen could top 31, and a slew of single-digit scores saw them slump to 107 all out. The batsmen just couldn't pick my slow looping balls, playing and missing regularly. Balls are still bowled at the body, but bouncers are limited to two an over and the batsmen wear face guards. They were willing to bang the ball in, bowl a few bouncers to keep the batsmen quiet and have them in trouble. There are laws which prevent batsmen and bowlers from leaving the field and returning to bat or bowl as they please. The bowlers and fielders were quick to remind the other batsmen of their incompetence to bat at this level. India has great batsmen and so-so bowlers, and Indian conditions are very different to everywhere else in the world. Show More Sentences I once played in a bush league in South Trinidad where good batsmen had to ensure that they were never hit on the pads. Matomela was punished to a certain extent by the NZ batsmen, but his debut will stand him in good stead for the future as well. The West Indian batsmen failed to negotiate Muralitharan's vicious off breaks and doosras on a pitch offering sharp turn and variable bounce. He was a surprise omission from India's tour party after he troubled the Australian batsmen during the recent one-day series in India. And the on drives looked great, very few batsmen have the ability to play ball wide of mid on without lifting the ball. Following the fall of the openers, the batsmen dropped at an alarming rate. Four of their batsmen were caught from blazing shots by fielders stationed on the boundary rope. Most of their batsmen are still struggling to cope with the New Zealand pace attack. The Alice team were given good service by their wicketkeeper, V Makapela, who stumped two batsmen and caught one. Easts wicket keeper Dale Box did well with the gloves, stumping two batsmen, one off the bowling of Jobson and another off David Wells. He is not shy with his bouncer and England's batsmen had better check the sturdiness of their helmets. By cutting off access to the boundaries, Australia's fielders and bowlers out-thought India's batsmen. The surface of the Oakes Oval strip is notorious for it's uneven bounce and has cruelled many skilled batsmen over the past few seasons. Kirtley was the most dangerous, swinging the ball considerably, and forcing the batsmen to play. When we play on a wicket and the ball swings around we have bowlers and batsmen who can cope with that. The Pakistani batsmen are in a habit of playing at balls swinging away from the body. He's been a wonderful Captain, a wonderful batsmen, a gritty, determined competitor. His ability to swing the ball would be missed because it is swing bowling that has undone Australia's batsmen as much as anything. They will consist of five specialist batsmen, one wicket keeper, two allrounders, three pacemen and two spinners. But as frequently happens with long partnerships, both batsmen departed the scene in quick succession. Show More Sentences He will then pace his innings accordingly, working on partnerships with other batsmen and so on. Both these batsmen look imperious when they are playing the outgoing ball, since they cut and square drive really well. In the second innings, Australia compiled a score of 397 with five batsmen scoring half centuries. Warton again failed to capitalise on a massive score compiled by their batsmen as they could only draw with Arnside. Both are predominantly top order batsmen, but they are both off-spin bowlers and exceptional fielders as well. The tourists improved to make 352 in their second innings, with four batsmen reaching half-centuries. The batsmen then keep hitting it down the throats of the ready set fieldsmen. The way to take wickets on these pitches is to force batsmen to make mistakes, and the South Africans did that. He caught Gilchrist plumb in front with the second delivery of the day to restore his hold over one of the game's most dangerous batsmen. But he's looking really good now and worried even the fleet-footed Australian batsmen. Several balls have half deceived batsmen and popped up in the air or beaten the bat, but none have yielded a wicket. If the Australians succumbed it was because of the relentless pressure that came from the tall scores the Indian batsmen posted. Bangladesh's batsmen, despite avoiding the follow-on, were always on the back foot this morning. Most of the batsmen have been out of form on this tour, but we have to find some ways to score runs. The best one-day batsmen have a remarkable ability to use the crease as a means of creating space for themselves. Most of the batsmen need more time at the crease, and the position of the third pace bowler is undecided. The batsmen had to stay at the crease for a while before upping the scoring. Throughout the commentary there will be interviews with batsmen just before they head to the crease and fielders on the boundary edge. It'll force the batsmen to use their bats more, while the spinners will be rewarded, deservedly, for foxing the batsmen. It will not please England, though, that two of his wickets, both front-line batsmen, were culpable. Show More Sentences This Indian team has several batsmen who can raise their game to attain this level. His prestidigitation continues to baffle not just batsmen but biomechanists appointed by the ICC to determine its legality. It is similar to umpires giving No. 11 batsmen out more readily than top-order batsmen. The Protected Area has no special relevance for batsmen, only for the bowler. Their last five wickets tumbled for 22 in just under eight overs, with the final four batsmen all making ducks. A doosra, unlike the chuck from a fast bowler, can cause no bodily harm to the batsmen. After the break, none of the last six batsmen reached double figures as the side slipped to 162 all out. None of the remaining batsmen got into double figures, leaving Gambhir to wage a lone battle against the West bowlers. There's argument over whether he should try to persuade opposing batsmen to walk when he's convinced they're out. At an age when most batsmen are over the hill, he is producing some of the best batting of his career. Going by statistics we see that he is among the Indian batsmen to score centuries in both the innings. In a profitable series for batsmen, six different players have scored centuries, which shows the strength of each team's batting line-up. One of your recent answers talked about batsmen who have scored centuries against all nine possible Test opponents. So it's no surprise the team leads the majors in hit batsmen and is acquiring a reputation. The left-arm fast bowler, extracting much lift, bowled with hostility to contain the batsmen. Unless batsmen have a plan worked out in their minds and adapt to the conditions they're playing in, they will make lots of mistakes. Most law changes and technological advancements in the recent past have loaded the game in favour of the batsmen. It thus becomes important for us to prepare fast and bouncy wickets at home, so that our batsmen get used to these surfaces. He then grabbed 5-63, but Circle squeezed home with the last two batsmen at the wicket. So teams can pick seven batsmen and five bowlers or, in India's case, seven batsmen and a wicketkeeper. Show More Sentences The team consists of five all-rounders, six specialist batsmen, two wicketkeepers and five strike bowlers. The batsmen were also helped by some wayward bowling with 61 extras, including 40 wides, being conceded. Instead, the bowlers bowled a few wides and no-balls, in addition to the batsmen being lucky with a few edges. The team consists of five all-rounders, six specialist batsmen, two wicket keepers and five strike bowlers. The former national player has added that much-need zip to the attack, bowling long spells and dominating the batsmen. Most of the batsmen in the list seem to have reserved their tons for the big occasion. The West Indies team in the fifth Test against England at The Oval in 2000 included eight left-handed batsmen. There is a strong view in the Australian camp that England batsmen are not handling leg spin well. Both batsmen have the ability to tear any attack to ribbons and a quick 60 or 70 from them will set Border on the road to a good total. He is a right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler who may well pose problems for premier division batsmen. Coming in at No 4 Michael Nind showed a liking for Hill Park Oval not shared by his brothers, the earlier batsmen. I sat on the boundary waiting for the bus, watching the batsmen slowly lolloping from one end of the pitch to the other. The batsmen ran four as Lewis floundered to the boundary to make amends, but the game was up. Lineker and Cooper held the run rate to three per over, while the batsmen ran very well between the wickets, keeping pressure on the fielders. He said that there are different ways for batsmen to score runs, and indeed there are different ways to win. A West Indian spinner then took control and with two other Heworth batsmen falling to run-outs, the innings closed at 154 all out. The Surrey batsmen also preferred the off-side, with little dabs down to third man and beautifully-timed touches past the bowler, contrasting his partner's full-blooded drive. Clearly, that will be a bridge too far for the Kiwi batsmen. For a full list of batsmen who scored a century on Test debut, click here. Four of the top five Indian batsmen were bowled at St George's Park. Show More Sentences And in their past five tests, the batsmen have scored nine centuries. It was in South Africa last March that an unknown named Jimmy Anderson first made an impact, beating good batsmen on good wickets with sheer pace. Ponting and Martyn settled in after tea to appear increasingly comfortable, with the scoring rate accelerating in direct comparison with the perceived comfort of the batsmen. All it took was a stare and a crook of the eyebrow from any one of the quartet of West Indian quicks in those days for the batsmen to know that a bowler was upset. He lands them at around three quarters length, and then pitches the odd one up, seaming it away, and catching the batsmen, rooted to the crease, napping. With the Test series fast approaching, Fleming will be hoping for similar hands from the rest of his batsmen to prevent yet another whitewash at the hands of Pakistan. Little wonder then most of the batsmen are being caught behind the wicket. Intriguingly his left-arm Chinaman bowling continued to worry the batsmen, and Flintoff's attempt to paste him out of the ground failed for a second time to an outfield catch. When the ball is dead he shall inform the other umpire, the batsmen at the wicket and, as soon as practicable, the captain of the batting side of what has occurred. The research has concentrated on increasing the all-important sweet spot, the area where the batsmen experiences least impact when the ball is struck. Such away swingers have beaten the best batsmen from both teams. The pitch is still good with pace and bounce and in this era of lower order batsmen rather than slogging tail-enders, 31 was not a daunting challenge. Pickering's woeful start continued when they slipped to their third defeat at Clifton Alliance but at least their batsmen began to show a semblance of form. Before the match his high watermark was 33, but he belted the fast men down the ground and slow bowlers square in a performance to embarrass his batsmen. Suddenly, with two new batsmen at the crease, the runs began to dry up. The West Indies bowlers pegged away determinedly, while the Sri Lankan batsmen were in no mood to throw away their wickets before the showers came. With Trescothick out of the Test and probably the series with injury, the young off-spinner should have had no trouble in psyching the English batsmen out. Of modern Australian batsmen that I have seen, the best was Chappell, who had great power and elegance, plus gritty determination when he needed it. If the last season was one in which all the batsmen were in the pink of form, the present season has shown them in terrible light with nobody able to hit the straps. It was a fine effort by the visiting batsmen, with better application and concentration, they grafted the runs methodically to push the score along. Show More Sentences Our batsmen played too many shots square of the wicket off the new ball. His cleverly disguised off-cutters terrified batsmen, and a legend grew as cartoonists captured his Mephistophelean physiognomy and writers relished his deadly deeds. In most cases, it was the balls that swung in to the right-handed batsmen that did the damage and there isn't a better exponent of that delivery than Vaas. But in cricket, the batsmen get the runs and bowlers get wickets. Hong Kong, with ten debutants, dismissed three batsmen for a run to end UAE's innings at 127, the same score Hong Kong had made in their first innings. Even then the gloom was such that the scoreboard shone like Piccadilly Circus on a wet night while both batsmen and fielders needed radar to sight the ball. Eventually, too, India's batsmen, or so one presumes, are too gifted to hibernate for too long and their spinners must be salivating at the sight of dusty pitches. He bowled too many loose deliveries down the on side, to batsmen who were strong off their legs, and much of the batting left a lot to be desired. The return of the rejuvenated opening bowlers quickly put paid to any lingering hopes the Cambridge side had of saving the game, removing two further batsmen. Other England batsmen still have work to do, including the even scratchier Kevin Pietersen. At the start of each game, two batsmen and eleven fielders enter the field of play. One team bats, attempting to score runs, while the other bowls and fields the ball, attempting to restrict the scoring and dismiss the batsmen. The order of batsmen is usually announced just before the match, but it can be varied. Both batsmen run the length of the pitch, exchanging positions, and grounding their bats behind the opposite crease. The batsmen may attempt one run, or multiple runs, or elect not to run at all. The batsmen might have started running before the ball reaches the boundary, but those runs do not count. When the batsmen have finished attempting their runs the ball is dead, and is returned to the bowler to be bowled again. Some batsmen wear additional padding inside their shirts and trousers such as thigh pads, arm pads, rib protectors and shoulder pads. At this point, another bowler is deployed at the other end, and the fielding side changes ends while the batsmen do not. A team's score is reported in terms of the number of runs scored and the number of batsmen that have been dismissed. Show More Sentences Bodyline bowling assumed such proportions as to menace best interests of game, making protection of body by batsmen the main consideration. Great Australian players in the early years included batsmen Border, Boon, Taylor and Steve Waugh. In the 2000s, batsmen Justin Langer, Damien Martyn and Matthew Hayden became noted players for Australia. The English opening batsmen of Andrew Strauss and Marcus Trescothick began England's response, scoring 26 before lunch. Once the ball is dead, no runs can be scored and no batsmen can be dismissed. Fielders are positioned to field the ball, to stop runs and boundaries, and to get batsmen out by catching or running them out. Maynard, who retired at the end of the 2005 season, was one of the most successful batsmen in first class cricket over the previous 20 years. Johnny Mullagh, the team's star player, was regarded as one of the era's finest batsmen. England's batsmen were nothing more than sitting ducks waiting to be picked off by these unerringly accurate marksmen. I think all the Australian batsmen who came back from South Africa felt a bit under the pump. We simply had to perform or not stay in the side. It was a strangely quiet, featureless day in which two welrganised batsmen cashed in their chips against anatta ck that lacked inspiration. Northants fielded brilliantly yesterday to whip out the last six Warwickshire batsmen for just 46 to win their rain-hit semi-final by 27 runs. But Johnson's tactic of forcing batsmen on to the back foot worked once more, as a widish fuller delivery was slashed behind. He is no mouther of batsmen, but has an aggression that one opening batsman admires. But Raina XI soon took control of the match and skittled out the batsmen for 119 runs. According to The Daily Times, Yousuf said that Pakistan did not have any compact batsmen like Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli. Leading batsmen Saeed Anwar and Inzamamul Haq and spin bowler Mushtaq Ahmed told the inquiry that they had no links with bookmakers. Instead, an inclement mid-summer of unshifting cloud cover saw to it that Pietersen was hardly alone among suffering batsmen. Sarfraz Nawaz said the Pakistani batsmen would never learn, how hard they were trained. The carrom bowl is not coming out of his hands too often now but he is using it cleverly to deceive batsmen. Show More Sentences It was a good thing Vaughan won the toss and batted first as the Bermudan batsmen didn't know how to go about playing the English pace attack. After either ten batsmen have been dismissed or a fixed number of overs have been completed, the innings ends and the two teams then swap roles. For example, if a bowler steps up to the crease to bowl, and the batsmen his end wanders out the crease, the bowler can whip off the bails, appeal and the batsmen is out. Payment for skilled bowlers and batsmen came from voluntary donations afterwards, or from small payments from the clubs where matches were played. Finch, who hit a world record 156 off 63 balls in an international T20 for Australia, is widely regarded as one of the best and most explosive T20 batsmen around. Taymoor Rukhsar from Customer Services and Iqbal from Baggage Services shared the best batsmen award while Chamal Morawake from Operations won the best bowler award. The Australian batsmen were expecting an easier time with debutants Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Wayne Parnell replacing Dale Steyn and Ntini, while allrounder Kallis was also rested. Runs are scored when the two batsmen run to each other's end of the pitch. With Flintoff bowled by McGrath in the 17th, and England had lost five wickets for 21 runs, with five of their top six batsmen out in single figures. The contributions of Smith, Vaughan and Dravid have certainly bumped up the final total but 16 out of 26 batsmen proved the spread firm's quotes were too low. Captain Justin Langer soon followed, caught behind driving at Chapple, and at 20 for two Somerset had lost their two most experienced top-order batsmen. Kallis dismissed the final five Bangladesh batsmen, who had no answer to his extra bounce and were either caught behind or at mid-wicket mistiming pull shots. In the next two Tests, the Australian batsmen struggled, being bowled out for 136 in the first innings at Edgbaston, with England proceeding to win by eight wickets. Phangiso dismissed well-set batsmen Kane Williamson and George Worker in the first match and took 3-30 in last month's 20-over game in Bangladesh. The batsmen can be run out or stumped if they are out of their ground. The two batsmen take positions at opposite ends of the pitch. In an exciting game, the Cheshire batsmen struggled against some accurate bowling, especially from Northants county staffman Kevin Innes who took 2-20 off 10 overs. Six Australians scored hundreds while Mailey spun out 36 English batsmen. Each crossing and grounding by both batsmen is worth one run. The side which does well in all three departments will win the series and we have to be very disciplined against England, who have quality batsmen and bowlers. Show More Sentences The pitch promised some early movement to the seamers, but Zimbabwe's erratic bowling attack were able to bowl few deliveries to trouble the batsmen. Many of the wickets of the time were friendly to batsmen resulting in a large proportion of matches ending in high scoring draws and many batting records being set. The batsmen took an easy single as the ball approached the fieldsman but Gambhir called for a second on the throw and Franklin uprooted the non-striker's stumps. Examples from Classical Literature Collectively, Warwickshire's batsmen failed to score off 10,583 deliveries in championship cricket last season. In reply, the Welsh side were 82-2, but then lost four batsmen for seven runs, three of them to mistimed hooks and two to ducks. With only a small total to defend, such uppish drives should have been taken to put pressure on the batsmen. While praising Saeed Ajmal, Sarfraz said Ajmal would definably trouble the Sri Lankan batsmen. Find more words! 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