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Kingswood taking their second turn at the wicket were 104 for the loss of eight wickets before they invited the home side to take second lease.
He was dismissed for a series of low scores, typically caught at the wicket, or in the slips.
The home side lost a wicket with the score on 16 and then proceeded to hit the ball to all parts of the ground.
The Saints lost a wicket to the first ball of their innings and continued to struggle.
The Keighley side lost a wicket without a run on the board then progressed to 15-1 when play halted.
That looked a viable viewpoint when Chorley lost a wicket off just the third ball of their innings.
When a player loses a wicket, 10 runs are deducted from the batting team's total and the player remains at the crease.
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.
His tirelessness is apparent from a strike-rate of a wicket every 51.6 balls that bears comparison with many all-time greats.
No-one takes guard at the wicket and the outfield is as rough as a public park.
Cumberland lost their fourth wicket at 146 when Robert Mason was bowled for 53, having hit his first half-century for the county.
When you were fielding in the wall-less labyrinth of cricketers and pitches, you often forgot which wicket your match was being played on.
He took Bradman's wicket on five of the 13 occasions it fell in Tests when they both played.
Through pure grit and determination the pair put on 41 for the first wicket.
Skipton are seven points adrift of safety after going down to a Knaresborough side in which Mike Baxendall continued his wicket taking.
So many runs in three days of cricket can't be a good wicket for Test match cricket.
They slumped to 23 for 3 after Rashid Khan was run out and David Harrison and Jon Lewis took a wicket apiece.
If they fail to score another run or take another wicket on the entire tour, it will not matter one iota.
The opening delivery was a loosener in every sense, pitching halfway down the wicket and spearing down the legside.
A boundary was more likely than a three and Giles came down the wicket and tried to loft the ball over the in-field on the leg-side.
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The wickets to be sixteen yards apart, the bowling crease to be eight yards from the wicket.
Some brooding spirit of the past might have been peering out at them from the watchman's wicket in the bartizan above.
Stands about the same distance behind the wicket on the on-side as long-on does before it.
In other words, the thing's feet must have been arched like a croquet wicket.
When the kiln is full the wicket is bricked up and daubed over with road-mud.
Sooner or later you will lose your wicket, for the ball is sure at some time to be caught by long-on or long-off.
Then I stopped, for the man with the bleary eyes had shut the wicket in my face.
He started from his reverie as she and the nurse approached, and lifted the latchet of the little wicket to lot them pass.
The still astounding power of the best bowlers is shown by the havoc they make when they get a sticky wicket to bowl on.
When we're toiling away for a wicket on a baking hot day at Edgbaston we'll be tossing the ball to Sue.
The only wicket to fall came when Wavell Hinds was outfoxed by Danish Kaneria, whose well flighted delivery removed his leg bail.
Together, the fourth wicket partnership yielded 80 runs scored off only 6 overs.
Manhas feels the nature of the wicket and the soreness in his back were two reasons that brought out the swashbuckler in him.
The batsman raised his bat, expecting it to fly past the wicket.
As I passed out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side.
Dolokhov, after Anatole entered, had remained at the wicket gate and was struggling with the yard porter who was trying to lock it.
Presently a fresh set was formed, and Doctor Walker, the odd man out, came through the wicket gate and strolled up the garden walk.
Benassis had scarcely finished speaking when the wicket gate which gave entrance to the garden opened, and a nicely-dressed young woman appeared.
I could almost see a dark indistinct figure opening the wicket gate of the garden.
Whatever his jailers considered that he needed was conveyed to his cell by night through a wicket.
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