Services had no batsmen left with one man injured and retired hurt, so O'Reilly allowed the twelfth man to bat, in order to give Miller a chance of making a century.
Such men normally bat early, in order to give them the opportunity to score the maximum number of runs, and also to tire out the bowlers so that weaker batsmen who come in later on still have a chance.
Although the traditional baseball model calls for a scrappy, i.e. lesser, player to bat second in order to put the ball in play or sacrifice the leadoff hitter over, that strategy often results in either an out, an open base that encourages pitching around the best hitter, or both.
"But Lancashire are up against it going into the final day, knowing that they will need to bat well in order to get anything from the game.
We used the initial version of the T signal (questioning of the optical performance and parentage of the umpire) and the final verdict was not communicated by the third umpire but by the rest of the batting team, who came onto the pitch wielding bats in order to inform us that the original decision had been upheld".
In the most controversial change, umpires will enforce a rule requiring hitters to keep at least one foot in the batter's box when they are at bat, in order to cut down on the repeated lulls between pitches, which can often stretch as long as thirty seconds.
Discriminant function analysis (DFA) was applied to search phase calls of the 65 individual bats in order to evaluate the potential for classifying calls into five species groups.
Batman's costume incorporates the imagery of a bat in order to frighten criminals.
During five days in early February, plastic film (12 m2) was laid out in the late afternoon and early in the morning under several trees densely occupied by bats, in order to collect fecal samples.
If you find yourself tending to "choke up" (move your hands up higher on the bat) in order to swing, you probably need a lighter bat.
