Sentence examples for batsman shapes from inspiring English sources

There are times when even the manner in which a batsman shapes up and plays his first delivery can be a pointer to how his innings might go.

37th over: India 207-2 (Kohli 11, Rahane 91) chasing 299 Dernbach gives Kohli the hurry-up with a bouncer, the batsman shapes to hook, mistimes it and the ball thunked off the toe of the bat, wrongfooting Kieswetter who dived backwards to his right and managed to pouch the ball in the web between thumb and forefinger.

Four overs later, he bowled Sehwag off an inside edge as the batsman shaped to cut.

That Duminy dismissal reminded me of when Shane Warne got Alec Stewart at Brisbane in 1994-95; the batsman shaped to cut and was stripped naked when it roared straight on past the horizontal bat.

Pietersen was warned by umpires on day three of the second Test against Sri Lanka in April for time wasting, because bowler Tillakaratne Dilshan chose not to release the ball when he saw the batsman shape to play the switch-hit.

Broad then beats Mahela's waft outside off with one that keeps a bit low, then gets one to shape past the batsman's prod.

He set Marlon Samuels up, getting the ball to shape away from the batsman and then sneaking an inswinger through the gate.

It may look pretty when the ball shapes away and nips through to the keeper, but if the batsman isn't being asked to play a shot you are wasting a delivery.

Broad went full and straight, Taylor's blade came down a fraction crooked, the ball shaped slightly away, and the offstump of New Zealand's premier batsman was pegged back.

The batsman addresses the delivery with a bat that resembles a modern hockey stick, this shape being ideal for dealing with a ball on the ground.

The batsman looked dumbstruck.