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. |
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He was dismissed for a series of low scores, typically caught at the wicket, or in the slips. |
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The home side lost a wicket with the score on 16 and then proceeded to hit the ball to all parts of the ground. |
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The Saints lost a wicket to the first ball of their innings and continued to struggle. |
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The Keighley side lost a wicket without a run on the board then progressed to 15-1 when play halted. |
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That looked a viable viewpoint when Chorley lost a wicket off just the third ball of their innings. |
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When a player loses a wicket, 10 runs are deducted from the batting team's total and the player remains at the crease. |
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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. |
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His tirelessness is apparent from a strike-rate of a wicket every 51.6 balls that bears comparison with many all-time greats. |
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No-one takes guard at the wicket and the outfield is as rough as a public park. |
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Cumberland lost their fourth wicket at 146 when Robert Mason was bowled for 53, having hit his first half-century for the county. |
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When you were fielding in the wall-less labyrinth of cricketers and pitches, you often forgot which wicket your match was being played on. |
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He took Bradman's wicket on five of the 13 occasions it fell in Tests when they both played. |
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Through pure grit and determination the pair put on 41 for the first wicket. |
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Skipton are seven points adrift of safety after going down to a Knaresborough side in which Mike Baxendall continued his wicket taking. |
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So many runs in three days of cricket can't be a good wicket for Test match cricket. |
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They slumped to 23 for 3 after Rashid Khan was run out and David Harrison and Jon Lewis took a wicket apiece. |
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If they fail to score another run or take another wicket on the entire tour, it will not matter one iota. |
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The opening delivery was a loosener in every sense, pitching halfway down the wicket and spearing down the legside. |
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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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Then just before the start of the season I collapsed while rolling the wicket. |
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When Warne first bowled at the legs of right-handers by coming at them from round the wicket, he was criticised for being negative. |
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He must also stay behind the popping crease and within the return creases at his wicket until he releases the ball. |
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So we sat around while a new wicket was prepared and cut, which was the only way of playing. |
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You can spend some time at the crease, get used to the bowler's action, the ground, the wicket. |
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The wicket and outfield was so batsman friendly that any batsman worth his salt could have turned the match on its head. |
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The fact that the wicket was a perfect batting strip makes it more disappointing. |
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He then grabbed 5-63, but Circle squeezed home with the last two batsmen at the wicket. |
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With scores level and one over remaining, the last pair were at the wicket. |
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Tong Park looked in with a chance whilst Sheikar and Wilkinson remained at the wicket. |
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Yuvraj's batting does not make me comfortable about him staying at the wicket. |
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Sometimes if a good batsman was at the wicket the ships were hit by sixers. |
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The Red Rose derby between Barrowford and Pendle Forest saw the Bull Holme side make 237 without losing a wicket. |
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True, it spoke without much inflection, as if reporting a cricket score from a sticky wicket. |
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Time after time he rocked on to the back foot to send the ball whistling through mid wicket and backward point. |
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Supporters heading to today's game at Wandella would be pleased to know that the rain also failed to turn Wandella Road into a sticky wicket. |
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Grange had made 91-4 on a sticky wicket against Wheldrake, who had enjoyed a good win over Ovington in the first round. |
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The controlling group needs to know they are going to be on a sticky wicket with this. |
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Hardly a hot bed of rap music so I think they were on a sticky wicket right from the start. |
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If Mark is leaving because of rumoured budget cuts, the person coming in is on a sticky wicket straight away. |
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The Democratic Presidential nominee, who has been railing against outsourcing, is walking on a sticky wicket on the issue. |
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With increasing education levels, and rising standards of living China's fascist rulers are on a sticky wicket. |
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English cricket looks to be on a sticky wicket in the aftermath of the national team's disappointing exit from the World Cup. |
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It's a bit of a sticky wicket, but we've got to put something back and we must try to look at the whole picture. |
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A left-arm paceman operating over the wicket is expected to angle or swing the ball across the right-hander. |
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Shifting to the pavilion end, reverting to over the wicket, he speared one on middle stump and managed to break it just enough. |
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Giles was over the wicket, so he saw the ball from the moment it left the bowler's hand. |
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It would have been a deserved third wicket for Panesar who can operate equally well from both round and over the wicket. |
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By bowling over the wicket, I would also not be giving him room for his strokes. |
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Giles was widely criticised for this new tactic but, encouraged by Fletcher, he continued to bowl over the wicket. |
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When, briefly Warne switched back to over the wicket after tea, Pietersen hit him straight for six and on-drove him for four. |
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As our graphic shows, Knight worked his runs all round the wicket, and in all he hit only seven boundaries. |
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A bowler must tell the umpire how many steps his run-up will be, if at all, and whether he is going over or round the wicket. |
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He's bowling round the wicket, to a defensive field, but the Aussies still manage to nibble three runs off that over. |
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Brooks played all round the wicket like a finished cricketer and was quite at home. |
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After Sidhu tonked him for one huge six, Warne changed to bowling round the wicket. |
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He bowled straight and full, took a wicket and dried up the runs at both ends, so that only 19 came off five overs. |
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He took a wicket with his first ball of the match, trapping Robinson leg before after Leicestershire decided to bat first at Grace Road. |
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Nehra had never looked like taking a wicket and he bowled 9 overs for 75 runs, including conceding 13 runs in his last two overs. |
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Hat tricks, in which a bowler takes a wicket with three consecutive balls, are fairly uncommon. |
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Australia have a habit of taking a wicket or wickets very early on a day, or very early in a session. |
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The early dismissal meant that Sami, who rarely looked like taking a wicket before that passage of play, had something in the bank to show. |
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Is it true that Australia once selected a wicketkeeper for a Test who had never kept wicket before? |
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Diganta's wicket brought Frank to the crease, and, in his usual agricultural style, immediately went after the bowling. |
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The team consists of five all-rounders, six specialist batsmen, two wicket keepers and five strike bowlers. |
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Srinath too proved that he is no slouch, carting the ball to all parts in his 40-ball stay at the wicket. |
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An excellent all-round display by teenager David Wilkinson saw Rawdon defeat Adel by one wicket in the semi-finals. |
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He sells his wicket dearly and always bowls tightly, as a No 3 seamer should. |
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And with the Aussie bowling around the wicket into the rough, he is content to let the ball hit his front pad and block the over out. |
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Bedi spun it like a top, the ball occasionally taking a divot out of the wet mud that passed for a wicket. |
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Kumble went round the wicket to bring the ugly miscued, sliced slog to mid-off's hands into play. |
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We picked three seamers because the wicket did assist swing bowling and there are lights here. |
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On a pitch that became increasingly difficult to bat on, East Lancs were rocked by losing a wicket to the first ball of their reply and in truth they never recovered. |
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England now had their tails up, and back into the attack came Flintoff, whose tight line from around the wicket had accounted for Adam Gilchrist in the first innings. |
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Hyde to be fair, played some very good cricket on a slow, low wicket and they were as keen as mustard when it came fielding, which was impressive. |
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He was still a world class batsman when he was keeping wicket. |
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An order has been placed with the manufacturers in India, for cricket bats, pads, batting gloves, wicket keeping gloves and protectives for distribution. |
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The barred wicket opened and shut, and the door creaked ajar. |
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It was the sixth time in eight innings that he has taken Lara's wicket. |
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We have had seats from the ground dragged right up Rawdon Billing, the wicket covers have been damaged, and doors and locks on the scorebox and garages have been vandalised. |
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Nalanda winning the toss made a wise decision to give first lease of the wicket to Ananda who were reeling at two wickets for four runs in the fifth over of the match. |
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His favourite shots were drives straight down the wicket and through the covers, but he also produced the occasional cut to pile on the agony for the West Indies attack. |
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He was the only Wharfedale bowler to take a wicket, finishing with five for 34 as the other three wickets in a total of 160 for eight fell to run outs. |
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As to privacy, Mr Husain complained of the wicket in the door. |
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In both his visits to the wicket he was the quintessence of anxiety. |
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With no expression of acknowledgment the porter closed the wicket. |
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He operated both round and over the wicket, varied pace and spin and generally looked a genuine spin bowler with an international career beckoning. |
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Have the rival captains ever taken each other's wicket in the same Test? |
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When they're both going, it's like watching two thrashing machines, one crashing the ball through gully and point and the other lifting anything within reach over mid wicket. |
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When the ball is dead he shall inform the other umpire, the batsmen at the wicket and, as soon as practicable, the captain of the batting side of what has occurred. |
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He was given out caught at the wicket, but the left-hander gave the impression that the ball had touched his shoulder before travelling to the wicketkeeper. |
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So when Irfan Pathan beams that dazzling smile after taking yet another wicket for the India he so proudly represents, he fills my heart with more than cricketing pride. |
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Hastily, the girl slid backwards on hands and knees behind the nearest tree, and watched as they opened the wicket gate and walked down the track deeper into the forest. |
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Soon he seemed to have given up all hope of trying to get Pietersen out and be content to deny him runs by bowling at his legs from round the wicket. |
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He's been bowling round the wicket to Katich, but comes back over. |
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There were so many spectators examining the wicket during the tea interval that it could have been a Test match at Headingley or a baggage reclaim at Manchester Airport. |
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Bowling round the wicket and attacking the rough, Benaud took 6 for 70 to secure a series-levelling 54-run win, and Australia went on to retain the Ashes. |
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Next man Adil Rashid top-edged to cover point as if he wanted to gift a wicket for Yasir's incisive bowling. |
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Armstrong is a leg-breaker, with eight fielders on the on-side. Probably he would do better if he bowled more at the wicket. |
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The single wicket form of the sport attracted huge crowds and wagers to match, its popularity peaking in the 1748 season. |
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The wicket is made of three vertical stumps supporting two small horizontal bails. |
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If his wicket is put down while the ball is live and he is out of his ground then he is dismissed, but the other batsman is safe. |
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Another member of the fielding team, the wicket keeper, is positioned behind the striker's wicket. |
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If the ball passes the far wicket out of reach of the batsman then it is called a wide, also with an extra run. |
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The batsman tries to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket by striking the ball with his bat. |
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The bowler continues to bowl toward the same wicket, regardless of any switch of the batsmen's positions. |
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The wicket keeper and the two umpires always change positions, as do many of the fielders, and play continues. |
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Each wicket on the pitch consists of three wooden stumps placed vertically, in line with one another. |
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One takes station at the striker's end to defend the wicket as above and to score runs if possible. |
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Batsmen cannot be out bowled, caught, leg before wicket, stumped or hit wicket off a no ball. |
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They cannot be out bowled, caught, leg before wicket, or hit the ball twice off a wide. |
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Dampness affects the bounce of the ball on the wicket and is a risk to all players involved in the game. |
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In the second innings opener Taylor was joined by Higgins at the fall of the fourth wicket as Hickman returned to the attack. |
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England drew that match thanks to a last wicket stand by bowlers James Anderson and Monty Panesar. |
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Heavy rain fell overnight, and next day the pitch soon developed into a traditional sticky wicket. |
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Strauss and Trescothick could thus add 80 for the first wicket before Strauss edged a short ball from Lee back into the bowler's waiting hands. |
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First, Warne and Lee added 45 for the ninth wicket, before Warne trod on his own stumps after a full Flintoff ball and was out hit wicket. |
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Just before tea Australia lost their first wicket with Hayden out caught at short leg from Ashley Giles first over. |
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After lunch, Trescothick played on to be bowled after scoring 41 giving McGrath his first wicket of the match. |
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With this wicket, Andrew Flintoff equalled Ian Botham's hitherto unique achievement of 300 runs and 20 wickets in an Ashes series. |
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The wicket was Warne's 167th against England, equalling Dennis Lillee's Ashes bowling record. |
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In 1774, this said that the batsman is out if, with design, he prevents the ball hitting the wicket with his leg. |
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If both batsman are in the middle of the pitch when a wicket is put down, the batsman closer to that end is out. |
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Of these, caught is generally the most common, followed by bowled, leg before wicket, run out and stumped. |
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A batsman is out if his wicket is put down by a ball delivered by the bowler. |
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If a batsman hits the ball twice, other than for the sole purpose of protecting his wicket or with the consent of the opposition, he is out. |
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The striker is also out hit wicket if he puts his wicket down by his bat or his body in setting off for a first run. |
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A total of eight matches are known to have been played at Lord's in 1787, one of them a single wicket event. |
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Our part-time Defence Secretary is also on a losing wicket over grim milestones. |
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He played eight test matches and was the wicket keeper during England's 1986 Ashes win in Australia. |
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Overall, Briggs was the second leading wicket taker during the competition, ending just two wickets behind Alfonso Thomas. |
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Briggs was the Lions leading wicket taker during their spell in the competition. |
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Sussex won by 10 wickets with James Lillywhite claiming ten wickets in the match for 80 runs, including his 100th career wicket. |
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As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket. |
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Staying at the wicket is the key in any format of cricket and this is what the Afghani players are learning to do. |
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A double wicket maiden by Mathew was the final nail on the coffin as Al Seef Jewellers won by 79 runs. |
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Jake Ball then opened up with a rare wicket maiden, claiming the key scalp of Iftikhar Ahmed as he mistimed to James Vince at mid-off. |
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Deloitte were limited to 90 for 7, with Shiv Sivanesan taking two for seven which included a double wicket maiden. |
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Until Finn's wicket maiden, England skipper Cook's gamble was going horribly awry. |
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Ravi Rampaul picked up a double wicket maiden when he claimed the scalps of Kieswetter and Wright as the West Indies made the perfect start. |
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Rahman gifted his skipper the wicket of Sangakkara, who went for a lofted drive and was caught by Asad Shafiq at widish mid-wicket. |
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Ellie made her debut with the Lancashire Women's Team last week, keeping wicket against Warwickshire. |
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Buttler, meanwhile, who has been playing as a specialist batsman while Craig Kieswetter keeps wicket, would like to keep in all formats. |
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I am happy to have kept wicket against bowlers like Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Abdul Qadir and Tauseef Ahmad. |
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Investigators gathered statistics and watched him playing cricket when he kept wicket and opened batting. |
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The sequence of events after that was not clear but after numerous replays Kallis was given out leg before wicket, the paper said. |
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But the grim situation did not daunt Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, who compiled 67 before being trapped leg before wicket to Dion Nash. |
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The Australian Cricket Board have called for the increased use of new technology in an attempt to reduce contentious leg before wicket decisions. |
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Kevin Evans struck that crucial blow with his first ball, trapping the left-hander leg before wicket, although Langer was clearly unhappy. |
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Then, Nadeem Shahid was beaten and fell leg before wicket to a fuller-length delivery. |
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Sehwag was caught behind of Siddle, while Tendulkar fell leg before wicket to Starc. |
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He uses his other shot or shots to either roquet another ball or try to traverse a wicket. |
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Warner shines Earlier, Batting first, Sunrisers once again lost the wicket of their out-of-form skipper Shikar Dhawan early. |
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Smiths Dock bowled Skelton Castle out for 94 before B Slatter guided them to a six wicket win and the D Division title. |
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Perhaps the tensest game of the day was played at Old Xaverians where the home side defeated Hightown St Mary's by one wicket. |
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Gus had been on a sticky wicket for a while and it was possibly inevitable in the end, considering last weekend's 4-0 defeat to Aston Villa. |
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It does not look good for Mike and if he is going down, Harvey will also find himself on a sticky wicket. |
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I LIKE Brendan Rodgers, but I think he's on a sticky wicket when it comes to defending Luis Suarez. |
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This tie is a bit of a sticky wicket for them and hopefully we can make them suffer a little more. |
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With DeFreitas claiming that prize wicket, Notts slipped to 79 for five after being put in by Dominic Cork. |
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On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. |
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The whole event of how Grace lost his wicket has been captured by Doyle's teammate Shacklock, after whom Doyle named his famous detective Sherlock. |
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Playing tip-and-run in the back garden, my adorable wife Sarah was taking strike against our five-year-old son, Freddie, with yours truly keeping wicket. |
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He and a cricket world full of well-wishers can only hope he does not lose the sight in his left eye after being hit by a flying bail while keeping wicket against Somerset. |
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England batted for six overs until tea without losing a wicket, scoring 10 runs, but McGrath, who bowled his usual accurate line and length, reaped the rewards after tea. |
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He bowled three overs for 23 runs in the first T20 and went wicketless while in the second T20 Afridi bowled four overs giving 26 runs without taking any wicket. |
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Added responsibility of keeping wicket may count against him. |
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Over all these factors, to be successful, one should enjoy keeping wicket. |
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He was involved in the only two significant partnerships of the day, putting on 80 for the second wicket with Chris Nash and 74 with Jimmy Anyon for the eighth wicket. |
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Notts responded in style, closing on 208 for one, a lead of 40, after openers Phil Jaques and Steven Mullaney had put on 203 for the first wicket. |
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Will Bragg was first to go caught at point, Lloyd was bowled first ball and Jim Allenby was trapped behind in a treble wicket maiden for England seamer Graham Onions. |
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Mark Alleyne had the rare distinction of bowling a wicket maiden in the sixth over of the Worcestershire innings, dismissing Mason after five dot balls. |
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New Zealand new cap Mitchell McClenaghan had Richard Levi caught at slip for a duck, bowling a wicket maiden at the start of the South African innings. |
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Single wicket has rarely been played since limited overs cricket began. |
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The former England international ended with figures of three for 71, Gordon Muchall's obstinance seeing him unbeaten on 37 by the time the final wicket fell. |
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Rafiq was the top scorer with 18 runs, while Ajith bowled a wicket maiden. |
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Benaud, bowling round the wicket and pitching into the rough of Trueman's footholds, brought such a collapse that in 20 minutes to tea England virtually lost the game. |
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I'm sure we're on a losing wicket but we're fighting technology. |
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If, after the bowler has entered his delivery stride and while the ball is in play, a batsman puts his wicket down by his bat or his body he is out. |
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Sami Munshi claimed 2-15 and Rithik 2-18 were the main wicket takers. |
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Flintoff likes Jones for his unselfish chivvying of the fielders and the way he supports him in their regular, productive partnerships for the sixth wicket. |
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But Captain Cook and fast bowler Mark Wood were on a sticky wicket as they were left scratching their heads after trying their hand at a number of Welsh phrases. |
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Historically, a form of cricket known as single wicket had been extremely successful and many of these contests in the 18th and 19th centuries qualify as important matches. |
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The wicket was pretty slow, reverse swing has played a massive part in this game, and so to use those skills to get us a decent lead on this pitch was very satisfying. |
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There was nothing there for Swanny and the wicket wasn't abrasive at all, so once you get through that 30-40 overs mark it becomes very difficult for the bowlers. |
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The substitute cannot bowl, act as a captain or keep wicket. |
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They just rolled my wicket over and said it was like shelling peas. |
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India's spinners had several good shouts for leg before wicket turned down, and with the Decision Review System not employed, they had no choice but to take their medicine. |
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Several methods of dismissal occur when the wicket is put down. |
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In the same season, Brown and Tunnicliffe established a record partnership for the first wicket when they scored 554 against Derbyshire at Chesterfield. |
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He had made 78 and the total was 168, but it quickly became 171 for three as Gavin Haynes fell leg before wicket to Phillip Tufnell without scoring. |
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The last wicket partnership rubbed it in with 43 more runs before Katich was caught by Simon Jones off Harmison, but England were set what would be a world record 420 to win. |
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That was a flat wicket and we had to wait for the ball to reverse swing. |
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Yorkshire captain Matthew Wood began with his spin bowlers, Richard Dawson and Andy Gray, in an effort to break the seventh wicket partnership between Nic Pothas and Udal. |
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England had been set 311 to win and finished on 211 for six with Prior, playing as a batsman as Steven Davies kept wicket, finishing on 102 not out. |
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It was a response to Richards' criticism of his deteriorating form after he had scored only 51 runs and kept wicket inconsistently in the first two Tests. |
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Golcar's Cameron Fletcher kept wicket for Northern Districts. |
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William also bowled a few balls to kids while his wife kept wicket. |
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When he has kept wicket in cup matches he has been outstanding but for league games we have Jeff Laws behind the stumps and so we use Nilkanth as an extra bowling option. |
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