Sentence examples for brilliant knock from inspiring English sources

He is playing an absolutely brilliant knock here.

A quite brilliant knock to level this shortened series.

So he played a brilliant knock at the end there to give me a little break down at the other end.

It worked in our favour and Brathwaite played a brilliant knock to give me a little break at the other end".

The batting was hardly electrifying, either, but having allowed the opposition to score 292 for six – and that is to take nothing away from a brilliant knock of 119 by Ryan ten Doeschate – Andrew Strauss's team hauled themselves across the winning line with half a dozen wickets and eight balls to spare.

Mendis had only one first-class century to his name but undaunted, the jockey-sized player took on the Australian bowlers, cutting and driving the fast bowlers and sweeping the spinners in a brilliant knock of 169 not out, Dilruwan Perera is at the crease with him, unbeaten on five.

Comparisons with Spike Jonze are easy to make: both have a gift for the simple-but-brilliant, knock-em-flat idea, but where Jonze relies on a deadpan, frat-boy humour, Gondry regularly plays the Euro clown card, like MTV's answer to Jacques Tati.

My middle son had a brilliant time knocking holes in the bottom for drainage, and the tomato plants are now in.

He's book-ended a superb few months with knocks brilliant for their polarity.

My favourite bookshop in the world is the Amnesty bookshop, where you can buy brilliant books for knock-down prices and donate some money to Amnesty at the same time.

It's unlikely to be in the form of a brilliant new terminal to knock Bloomberg off the desk.