Sentence examples for astonishing player from inspiring English sources

MS AB de Villiers is just an astonishing player, the best around, but there is stiff competition from the likes of David Warner, Hashim Amla and Kane Williamson.

Does that make him a 21st-century Frik du Preez, a Springbok of the 1960s described by the writer John Reason as "an astonishing player; possibly the only lock of modern times who had every one of the skills necessary to the completely equipped forward"?

Maradona was a genuinely astonishing player, tiny but incredibly strong.

It was hard to relate to these astonishing players.

The shop was a crossroads for astonishing players of every style — Robert Fripp, Andy Summers, John McLaughlin, Joe Pass — and their guitars needed help.

Jeff Beck, a guitarist with more than a passing acquaintance with dazzling technique, called him "by far the most astonishing guitar player ever … Django was quite superhuman, there's nothing normal about him as a person or a player".

In the 1970's, Mount Vernon High School had an astonishing seven players go on to play in the National Basketball Association.

Conlon Nancarrow's astonishing music for player piano offers performance without interpretation.

At root, Mr. Metheny is an astonishing jazz guitar player with a rapid stream of ideas; he uses the whole range of the instrument, working wide glissandos into tight, focused improvisations; putting elongated, countryish licks among finger-busting altered scales.

"To go into World Cup games not having a game-plan, any structure or clear idea of what we were going to do in attack was astonishing," said one player.

The attention was astonishing for a player who required an assistant before the first two games to help him put on his pads; who once plowed into opponents out of bounds because the field's white stripes were meaningless to him; who has been penalized for roughing the punter and hitting the quarterback late because he was unaccustomed to shutting down quickly at the end of a play.