Sentences with phrase «take wickets»

Introducing him, I say: «Danny used to take wickets with an out - swinger that veered off to the left.

However, Cambridge took a wicket in the first over, and Oxford was eventually left at 82 - 7.

Laura Marsh took a wicket in each of her first three overs en route to figures of 3 - 12, while Natalie Sciver, Anya Shrubsole and Georgia Elwiss each claimed two scalps as Pakistan were all out for 80 after 17.5 overs.

Though the rain came after just 11 overs, Danny Alexander managed to become the first serving cabinet minister to take a wicket at «Headquarters» in at least 70 years.

Not exact matches

He has taken 21 wickets (@ 10.71) and will need to add to this tally to restrict a strong Indian batting line - up.

«Now he finds himself in a sticky wicket that he's going to take a long time extricating himself from.»

And also, agonizingly, he now needed to take only two more wickets (cricketese for putting a batsman out) to break the world record, held by Australia's Dennis Lillee, of 355 taken in Test matches.

In the next 40 minutes of that historic August afternoon, Botham, no longer in his berserkr bear mode but crashing down to bowl like some huge farmhorse granted the gift of speed, devastated the Australians, taking their last five wickets at the expense of one run — the equivalent of, say, striking out the side in a bases - loaded situation in five consecutive innings — winning the game for England.

He took six wickets, to add to his five in the first innings, which decimated the Oxford top order.

A solid wicket - keeper, he scored three hundreds — two for Oxford in 1959 — held six catches in an innings in 1970 and in a 1965 match, he removed his pads and immediately took a hat - trick.

Both opening bowlers extracted a huge amount of movement out of the patchy surface and Ruari Chrichard in particular caused havoc, taking four wickets in five overs, all caught behind.

Fittingly, Crichard took the final wicket.

In the afternoon and evening sessions, Tom Brock and 2016 captain, Johny Marsden, took over the wicket - taking role from Pettman, ending up with seven between them as Cambridge were bowled out for 225, with only captain Tice reaching a half century.

Another goalkeeper to enjoy success in the Minor Counties Championship was Watford goalkeeper Bill Yates, who played for Buckinghamshire and took two five wicket hauls against Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire in the early 1950s.

A right - arm fast bowler and something of a useful lower - order batsman, he holds the record for taking the most wickets - six - without having a batsman caught.

«We've obviously managed to take 40 wickets in the last couple of weeks and do some really good things, but I think there's still a lot of room for improvement.»

Stuart Broad took eight wickets as England skittled out Australia for 60 in a historically quick 111 balls and moved within sight of an Ashes - clinching...

Kagiso Rabada bowled an incisive spell of fast bowling on the fourth morning of the second Test — he took six for 54 in the second innings and finished with a match haul of 11 for 150 — to drive South Africa to a series - levelling win by six wickets at St. George's Park in Port Elizabeth.

He took eight wickets in the cricket Varsity Match as he captained the Dark Blues to a resounding win in the four - day match by 103 runs.

And here's a picture or two, including Wicket's Best of Winners / Best of Breed picture, at the Southern Colorado Kennel Club in Pueblo, CO. (take that for rejecting our entry!)

Much like old bank branches with barred wickets separating the queued - up public from the service, law offices force people with varied legal problems to take a seat and read back issues of Maclean's.

(Sticky Wicket) I'm so glad you appreciated the post and took the time to check in.

So true... For the DIY landlord take a look at your receipt pile from the turnarounds... Quite a stack... All the little odds and ends and sticky wickets to fix, and then you clean and paint.

This stylish croquet set comes in a canvas carrying case and has everything you'll need to take on your neighbours in a friendly match: mallets, balls, pegs, wickets and of course, instructions on just how to play the game if you're rusty on the rules.