Sentence examples for Stop a ball from inspiring English sources

Imagine, some children pitch up at secondary school not knowing how to stop a ball with their feet.

Stokes, you'll recall, had used his hand to stop a ball thrown back at the stumps by Australian bowler Starc.

He must concentrate on every ball, being ready to stop a ball that passes the wicket, to stump a batsman if he leaves his ground, or to receive a ball returned to him by a fielder.

As the players traded the first two sets, Li made a show of humility, raising an open palm to stop a ball boy from retrieving an errant serve rolling her way.

U-GROOVE GOLF CLUBS First appearing on the PGA Tour in the late 80s, golf clubs with special U-grooved heads (rather than a conventional V-groove) allowed players to impart spectacular back spin that could stop a ball dead on the green.

The Welshman ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament sliding to stop a ball in the field during the first Test between England and Australia at The Gabba.

But it remains a game whose main purpose is moving or stopping a ball, not snapping bones or ligaments or causing concussions.

George Boyd, formerly of Hull, stopped a ball going dead and surprisingly stayed onside, and with the depleted defence expecting a whistle his cross was not dealt with quickly enough to prevent Ings joining in the pinball and beating Harper with a firmly struck shot.

The upturned greens require a genius short game - Johnny Miller once claimed that stopping a ball on them was about as easy as landing one onto the roof of a Volkswagen Beetle - so if Mickelson is anywhere near on song, he should be in the frame.

The 1788 version of the laws no longer required the umpires to take account of the batsman's intent; now a batsman was lbw if he stopped a ball that "pitch[ed] straight".

The representatives supported a motion to alter the law to state that the batsman would be out if he stopped a ball that would have hit the wicket; in contrast to the existing wording, this took no account of where the ball pitched relative to the wickets.