Sentence examples for bowled himself from inspiring English sources

He's already bowled himself out of the first match.

In fairness, he was needing a zimmer by then, having heroically bowled himself into early retirement in England 18 months earlier, but I suppose his mouth was still in full working order.

In 1905, the great Stanley Jackson led the team home by 213 runs and Bernard Bosanquet bowled himself into history by revealing for the first time in a home Test the googly he had invented and taking 8 for 107 in the process.

Three times in the past 16 years, England bowlers, asked to go out again, have suffered: in 1999, in Durban, when Gary Kirsten batted for almost 15 hours to make 275 and save South Africa; at Lord's in 2006 when Andrew Flintoff bowled himself into the deck and the infirmary in futility against Sri Lanka; in 2008 when Graeme Smith, Neil McKenzie and Hashim Amla all made hundreds as easy as wink.

Good over, and I'd say he's bowling himself into the starting XI at the moment.

He also resorted to bowling himself twice, when matches were proceeding towards a draw, with no success; he delivered 14 overs and conceded 97 runs in all.

MacGill took another five-wicket haul as the rest of the bowlers apart from Gillespie had limited success, with Waugh bowling himself for five overs in search of a breakthrough.

He bowled gamely himself, but he and Chris Tremlett failed to find the same cutting edge.

The rain interruptions and the fact that England's seamers had bowled 16 of the initial 17 overs, meant that Pietersen had to bowl himself, his spinners or possibly Paul Collingwood and Ravi Bopara.

2.54pm GMT 14th over: South Africa 116-2 (de Villiers 20 Duminy 2) Broad would bowl himself at both ends if he could.

11.10am GMT 10th over: Australia 76-2 (White 47, Bailey 16) Bopara gets to bowl himself, and it's a festival of singles.