Kumble went round the wicket to bring the ugly miscued, sliced slog to mid-off's hands into play. |
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So it has been nearly two and a half years since Kaif contributed any sort of a decent slog. |
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They slog purposefully, awaiting the report of the distant guns to herald the attack. |
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We had countless tortuous internal meetings to prioritize and slog through the full set of 500 items. |
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Social Security reform has been a tough slog for the business lobby, normally more at home discussing golf outings than actuarial tables. |
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The narrow Craven Park pitch is notoriously boggy and Simms knows Salford could be in for a stamina-sapping slog. |
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I've got past my horrendous slog in the first innings, so we'll be trying hard. |
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It is a hard slog, that is trying at the best of times and wrenching and torturous and terrifying most of the time. |
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But if the polls are right, she has a fair chance of finding out at first hand whether being first lady is a hard slog. |
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Don't get too irked at me for not mentioning this until after making you slog through all my instructions on building policies the hard way. |
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During the earlier part of a band's career, this is a hard slog, with lots of frustrating phone calls and unreturned messages. |
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It's a deep dive and the early chapters might be a bit of a scholarly slog, even for an ardent pogonophile. |
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After a three-mile slog uphill through ice-cold snowmelt, we rendezvous with the Professor, who has managed to meet us with the supply vehicles. |
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Slowly our health returns and the next seven days, while being a hard slog, go relatively smoothly. |
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Sorting out serious debt can be a long hard slog and their support is often invaluable. |
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It really has been a hard slog but seeing all these people here today it has been well worth it. |
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The pleasure of buying a house there had turned into a draining and joyless slog and we'd had enough. |
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It's certainly been a hard slog but I think any experience, especially bad ones, usually benefit you long-term. |
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Orchard and his growing cadre of workers have been beavering away at the tough but always rewarding slog of organization ever since. |
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They finally got the break they needed when they found a way over the open water lead after a 15-hour slog through the blizzard. |
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I know a lot of you are doing stuff together, but it's a hard slog to find out what. |
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This repetitiveness makes even the relatively short 20-minute running time of each episode a real slog. |
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Don't worry about the first chapter which, whilst beautiful, does make it seem like it's going to be a bit of a hard slog. |
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It's been a bit of a hard slog and anyone who says I haven't paid my dues can lump it. |
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His rise to prominence, culminating at this year's French Open where he reached his first Grand Slam semifinal, has been a hard slog. |
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Irfan Pathan had been ordered out of the attack after he bowled two beamers in an over during the slog. |
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Harbhajan looped in an off-break to Asim Kamal who went down on one knee to slog him over midwicket. |
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He described his 1,200 km walk through the frozen Antarctic as a long, hard slog with biting winds and sub-zero temperatures. |
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Watching a park cricketer routinely count to four, then plonk his foot towards the square-leg umpire and slog his way to a ton is not. |
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We live in an imperfect democracy where people can still persuade business and government, if they slog long enough and hard enough. |
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My thoughts are with the families of the admin assistants and cleaners killed in the towers who slog away for minimum wage. |
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Next ball, as if vindictively, he reverted to a hideous, shameless cross-batted slog near midwicket for six. |
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For accountants, working Saturdays is a tax-season tradition, a rite of spring as they slog through IRS forms and race to meet deadlines. |
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With more attention and focus to his bowling he could become a truly formidable international cricketer, secure in the knowledge that he has more to offer than just the slog. |
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These are some of the most unsparingly candid confessions about the sheer slog and awkwardness and grinding disappointment of designing ever committed to print. |
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It was a long, hard slog to the top, which took us around five hours, mainly because we were all heavily loaded up with the extra survival equipment and food supplies. |
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Otherwise, everone I know irl who's working in the games industry is doing a long slog through playtesting, or business paperwork, or PR, or sales. |
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We knew it would be a hard slog but that we were going to do things that interested us. |
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Your working day may not feel like such a slog if you don't hate your job, or alternatively you may find two enjoyable part-time gigs will fit the bill. |
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The alternative course, and the one he put forward this week, is to slog it out. |
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For a truck in the rainy season the detour translates into at least an additional eight hours' slog through the dunes. |
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The expression on her face suggests that something went down last night, and that it is going to be one long, slog of a day. |
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It took years of slog to make me realise that in fact there was a common thread. |
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But he says the journey has become a bit of a slog of late, with drivers getting worn out by the continuing road repairs. |
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So the search for the ribbonsnake relies on old-fashioned hip-waders, as researchers slog through the park's wetlands searching for the snakes. |
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The winter proved to be a tough slog, but now that spring is here we're seeing new faces at our tables every day. |
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It is a mighty tough slog, I will have to give them that, written in terse and exclusive science-ese. |
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Slog, slog, slog-with buckets of hot water to break up the ice in the water trough, with loads of cat litter or bluestone to deal with ice or mud, with hay for the pastures. |
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It means they are on their own on the final hurdle of a seemingly endless slog of course work, mock examinations, orals, practicals and revision which began in year nine. |
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Neither, too, was as chilling, as affecting, or, at times, as much of a slog. |
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But it serves no one to perpetuate the idea that parenting is supposed to be an agonizing and thankless slog. |
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Olowu had gotten tired of the Fashion Week slog of runway shows and models posing statically in airless rooms. |
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It only got there after a grueling, coast-to-coast slog through the lower courts. |
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No one seems capable of keeping a solo blog, but if there were a few people in there who could, I wouldn't know, because I'm not going to slog through all the bad. |
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But the slog to November 6th has been dispiriting and enervating enough to put many of us in touch with our inner 4-year-old. |
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Regaining the votes of Asian-Americans, like making inroads with Latino voters, will be a slog for the Republican Party. |
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From the re-start the rain started belting down, effectively killing off any enterprising backline play and the Bulldogs pack were left to slog it out in the trenches. |
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And the company faces a long, hard slog to get back to its valuation of a year ago. |
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I slog through long hard days and endure endless subway rides home. |
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This was because they had tried to slog the ball around and had got out. |
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I'm working with you everyday to get those chubby legs of yours to assume more responsibility, but this is a hard slog as your are so very stubborn. |
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It is a hard slog but Solomon is determined to make it to the top. |
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The pitch stood up well considering the state it had been in one week earlier, but the wet and cloying conditions did little to lift the match above the level of a hard slog. |
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At the beginning, both Regina and Maria felt it was a hard slog. |
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Batting doesn't take a lot of mastering and, once you have, you can have a good slog at the fielding sides' expense, turning the game into a foregone conclusion. |
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The Lisbon 2002 objective requires constant hard slog and a consistently-applied approach across many policy fields, not an endless diet of symbolic and tokenistic rhetoric. |
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That is the case of millions of people who are going to slog away on a monday once again, but once again they will work for the others and not for themselves. |
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When others are being asked to slog on until 67 and more, public-sector employees cannot swan off at 60. Whatever the pain, this decision must be reversed. |
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We have had a considerable success in Geneva but, frankly, it is a long hard slog even getting them to implement the remedies to the disputes which they have lost. |
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Artists and copywriters now slog for months unpaid. |
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Having parents who live in London also confers a huge advantage if you want to work in the arts, media, finance or law, because you can bunk up in the family home while you slog through unpaid internships or further study. |
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He's an attacking top-order batsman with quite a successful stint as the skipper for the Kiwis, and it is a treat to watch his slog sweep. |
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Many of you slog long and hard doing investigative journalism. |
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Or will he slog it out and write the essay himself? |
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Her dutiful slog through the litany of gripes from right-wing commentators and media organizations is likewise unilluminating. |
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If you could slog through the papers written by Dr. Durakovic and Dr. Dietz and spend a couple of weeks doing it, then you would not be fooled by the misconceptions that get thrown about. |
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Richard Levi edged the first ball of the innings from Chris Wright, then David Willey skied a slog at Rikki Clarke. |
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Again, almost too neatly, Pinter's messy extrication from marriage to the unhappy Vivien Merchant, creator of his first stage heroines, becomes a harrowing slog through anguish, silence and solitude. |
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Asset recovery is a slog, studded with obstacles that range from the deviousness of those hiding the money to the clunkiness of the international legal framework for identifying, freezing and repatriating looted wealth. |
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Richard Levi edged the rst ball of the innings from Chris Wright then David Willey skied a slog at Rikki Clarke. |
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The pre-season has been a slog, but an enjoyable slog and I can't wait to get started. |
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It's been a hard slog, given there has been disunity. |
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It has been the task of Canadian Alliance MPs, and they have shouldered this task in an admirable way, to slog their way through that red book of promises and find out just how mendacious they are. |
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This section is a long, hard slog, and the path is indistinct in places. |
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If that makes the series sound like a slog, my sincerest apologies. |
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For a foreigner its hard slog in melbourne. |
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The economy is a slog, and the world remains a dangerous place. |
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Italian-made and set in Palermo, Salvo is shot with style and confidence but it is so slow-moving and has so little dialogue that it becomes a bit of a hard slog. |
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As gas flares burn vibrantly in the sky offshore northern Persian Gulf, weathered Iranian workers slog in a labyrinth of pipelines, storage tanks and workshops. |
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Plenty of people are of the same opinion as I am, namely that it's a tedious slog. |
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What remained was sheer endurance and hard slog, frequently impeded by strong headwinds and driving rain. |
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It's like taking a step away from the daily grind, the hard slog, the trials and the tribulations so you can focus on nothing but having fun for three whole days. |
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