Sentence examples for ball runner from inspiring English sources

Martin may not quite have Rice's lateral explosiveness, but he's a bowling ball runner who can also get outside.

In Edinburgh and Paris, however, he appeared to have been transformed from a swift, flexible raider and an intelligent defender into a predictable crash-ball runner of negligible defensive value.

9 Danny Care (Harlequins) The season he had been waiting for – now England's starting No9 and the linchpin of Harlequins' fast-tempo game. 1 Joe Marler (Harlequins) The revised scrummaging laws have helped him and his work rate is immense. 2 Schalk Brits (Saracens) Playing as well as ever and gives Saracens an extra dimension as a ball-runner.

When Fiji's giant ball-runners began to hold passes and combine in thrilling attacks, the outsiders were overwhelmed.

All are devastating ball-runners and all deserve their spot but the decision to not play a back-rower on the bench is almost unprecedented.

The Scarlets number eight, from Bristol, rejected the chance to play for Wales in favour of England and is a powerful ball-runner who consistently breaks the gain-line.

Runner tried to avoid ball, but runner was not agile enough to elude ball.

Before he moved very far along the baseline, ball and runner met.

This gives rise to the possibility that ball and runner can arrive at exactly the same time — or at least seem to — and the canard that a tie goes to the runner.

When you catch the ball, the runner on first, who is forced to run to second, is out.

He was a passer of the ball, a runner, a skilled technician, a supremely intelligent master of the space on a football pitch.