Sentence examples for an extra cover from inspiring English sources

They could have had a third slip in rather than an extra cover, got Graeme Swann to toss the occasional ball up to bring him forward, or stuck another man in close to pile the pressure on him.

He played the best shot of his day - an extra-cover drive which took him to 45 - and then got out hanging his bat out to Harmison in a waywhich betrayed a compact technique.

Amazingly, Strauss had just taken out third slip to bring in an extra-cover.

An extra-cover drive for three brings up the fifty partnership, of which Broad has scored none, and leaves Broad with one ball to survive.

The field for Sangakkara is set to minimise the effectiveness of his beloved cover drive, with a short- and a deep extra cover and a mid-off.

Paul Harris and Smith kept adding fielders around the bat: three, then four, then five plus a short mid-on and a short extra cover.

He moves to 54 with a storming extra cover drive for four off Southee, and then a whirling hook stroke is superbly stopped on the fine-leg boundary by Martin.

Sharma gives himself room, but a subtle change of pace is enough to send his drive into the hands of Senanayake as a shortish extra cover.

75th over: England 178-1 (in reply to Sri Lanka's 275; Cook 82, Trott 31) Herath now has a short extra cover for Trott.

Plunkett has his home crowd on their feet as he smacks Pattinson for a four over extra cover, then slices a single to third man off the bottom edge.

Still, a lovely four through extra cover is an apt way to bring up a steady and deserved half-century for Hussain.