Sentences with phrase «on the cricket pitch»

The term originated over 150 years ago on the cricket pitch in the United Kingdom: the bowler who retired three batsmen with three consecutive balls was awarded a new hat.

The cricket journalists on these debates dismissed anchors attempts to draw a black and white racist line on the cricket pitch, like Zakka Jacob did (CNN News 18).

Not exact matches

They sit next to the local spired church, come complete with cricket pitch, and look pleasant on a postcard.

It might be noted that Botham, pondering baseball on a recent occasion, allowed that he would find pitching alien, pointing out that the grass is a vehicle for his delivery as much as his arm or his hand — the cricket ball is bounced to the batsman.

He would train hard between games, sharpening his reflexes by kicking footballs against the rollers used by Yorkshire Cricket Club for the creases on the adjoining pitch because the angles on the rebounds were never the same.

He celebrated his sixth birthday in May with a huge party on the local cricket pitch with a funfair and fire eaters.

Just in case you don't know much about cricket - it involves the use of a bat and a ball, and the players play on a specially developed pitch of grass.

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This rock hard pitch is where the HAC cricket team plays on weekends in the summer.

Singapore is a former British trading colony — you'll see remnants of British rule all over the city, including cricket pitches and the colonial - style Raffles Hotel — so there is plenty of Western food and drink on offer, too, although you'd be remiss to eat at a Hooters, say, when there is so much else on offer.

Inevitably June snowfall is a much rarer creature, but widespread sleet and snow showers did manage to affect the UK on 2nd June 1975, rudely and infamously affecting a cricket match between Derbyshire and Lancashire at Buxton where early afternoon snow covered the pitch with around an inch of snow (Markham, 1994, Eden 1995).

Anyone who's coached the under 11s: marshalled their team mates on a football, rugby, hockey or cricket pitch, on a netball or basketball court or on any other sporting platform will have shown the supervisory skills required to succeed in the workplace.