Sentences with phrase «wicket of»

Small hatches have found themselves on a bit of a sticky wicket of late.

It is the story of Christian who, entering the way of salvation through the straight and narrow wicket of Christ, who relieves him of his burden of sin, proceeds to pass through the temptations and persecutions of the world until finally reaching the Heavenly City.

Not exact matches

Alan Middleton, a professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, points out that the big banks now train tellers to upsell whenever they've got a customer standing at the wicket or asking a question on the phone.

Again, the sticky wicket appears when we press the image of God as the future to ask if there is an absolute, pre-determined future toward which God is drawing us.

He will teach a false doctrine that appears to be righteous truth, so much so that I think that he will be able to convince atheists of his evil teachings, but that doesn't matter, he already has them in his «basket», but they would be extra «tools» to use to convince others of his wicket ways.

Botham had now equaled Lillee's alltime record of 355 Test wickets — and Lillee was a pure bowler, not a batsman at all.

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.

Lemar is a bit of a sticky wicket... we don't get him without letting Sanchez move on and how disturbing it would be if we end up paying more for Lemar than we get for Alexis on the open market, especially since many of predicted big spenders have already made some big money moves and / or showed their hands... don't get me wrong, the tape on Lemar is full of hope but Sanchez he is not.

The object of the game of croquet is to be the first player to knock the ball through all the wickets and end by striking the final stake, a thin, striped pole usually placed just beyond the last wicket.

Pick of the Oxford bowlers were Naz Chatterji and Ridhi Kashyap, with 4 wickets apiece, in a great team effort of tight bowling and fielding.

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.

Chesterfield, Stockport County and York City goalkeeper Chris Marples played a string of first class County Cricket matches as wicket - keeper for Derbyshire during the mid-1980s.

Leeds United's Royden Wood was reckoned to be one of the best wicket - keepers in the Leeds and District League during his days at Elland Road.

Leslie Gay of the Old Brightonians has the unique distinction of keeping goal for England's national football team as well as keeping wicket for England in a test match.

Forest Green Rovers goalkeeper Steve Perrin is captain of Wiltshire County Cricket Club in the Minor Counties League, where, unsurprisingly, he plays as wicket keeper.

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.»

Yasir, 31, has picked up 149 wickets at an average of 29.91 from 26 Test matches since making his debut in the longest format in October 2014.

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...

England recovered from losing an early wicket in the first day of the Ashes Test against Australia at Sophia Gardens to finish on 343/7.

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.

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.

Rabada was, however, unable to avoid being handed a two - Test ban for a shoulder contact with Steven Smith in celebration of the Australian captain's wicket.

The Senate did not hold up everything having to do with the MTA, which is always a bit of a sticky wicket — especially for the downstate members — due to its long - running financial issues.

I have seen some extraordinarythings: a groundsman, on all fours, making the finishing touches to his wicket with a giant pair of scissors, an opening batsman whose beard was so long that it had to be tucked inside his shirt (and it wasn't WG Grace!)

There's still plenty to disagree on: Criminal justice reforms being pushed for in the wake of the Eric Garner case remain a sticky wicket for state lawmakers and Cuomo, as does expiring measures such as rent control and mayoral control of New York City schools.

They accused the government of behaving undemocratically, carrying out an abuse of parliament, denying the democratic right of members of the House, and sending out Andrea Leadsom to defend the indefensible, or as Tory MP Peter Bone put it, sending her «to the wicket not only without a bat, but without pads or a helmet».

Assemblyman Keith Wright, a Democrat from Harlem who chairs his chamber's housing committee, said a straight extender of 421 - a was «unacceptable» and described the situation as a «sticky wicket.»

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· Dating Site Reviews Wicket: Sri Lanka in free - fall Sri... blended a diet of singles and twos

I'm easy going, have a wicket sense of humour, enjoy having fun, very passionate, am intelligent, definite NON SMOKER, occasional drinker, not into sports but if you want to watch them, fine with me, just not every day.

But if you're looking at that cast list and spotting a problem, then congratulations, you saw the sticky wicket that Wes Anderson did not (which is kind of amazing as he has been in this culturally sensitive area before with The Darjeeling Limited).

Much lower in maintenance than a grass wicket, able to endure more usage and consistent in the playing characteristics an artificial cricket wicket is a dream of a surface, especially for those who are new or maybe less experienced in the game.

One person, called the «bowler,» pitches (or «delivers») a hard leather ball down a 22 - yard - long strip of dirt (called the «pitch») toward the other team's batter who is protecting his team's wicket from being hit by the ball.

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!)

This free - standing wicket is made of Baltic Birch and has rulers on both sides.

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There are new mechanics that handle infield & slips catching and fans of wicket keepers can look forward to having a more significant role in games.

Similarly, in Cricket Painting (Paragrand)(2006 - 12) oil paint is laid on the canvas in acid hues of orange, green and blue, the surface flecked in places with splashes of paint, so that action of the image — a girl lobbing a cricket ball that hangs in the centre of the canvas like a white, full moon towards a boy waiting at a wicket — becomes secondary; a compliment to the dynamism and energy of the colours» relationship.

I particularly like sporting records — «that was the highest fourth wicket partnership between left - and right - handed batsmen on the second day of a test a Lords between Australia and England» — almost as good as «the driest July in south - west Western Australia»

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Relying on the expert evidence, the Court found that the plaintiff was seated in the front half of the chair and deliberately tipped the chair onto its front legs to reach the documents on the wicket counter.

The placement of a mat under the chair at the sit down wicket at some point after the plaintiff fell was not an admission of liability and I do not find it a persuasive factor.

The audience prefers more serious weapons to be applied to the wicket and dislikes mockery of the wretched.

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.

Although a competent customer — you have to be if you represent Australia — no one could have imagined his role in engineering a collapse in both innings almost single - handedly, picking 12 of the 20 Indian wickets.

The rationale went that while the iPhone 8 was on a good wicket as it was the most compact and affordable new iPhone, the 8 Plus (poor thing) was priced too close to the high - profile iPhone X, and would be a casualty of its popularity.