Sentence examples for cross bat from inspiring English sources

He adds another with a deliberate edge played with a cross bat and rolled wrists that may have caught Dhoni on the tip of his gloves but had enough power to still make it to the third man boundary.

3rd over: Afghanistan 12-2 (K Sadiq 2, Mangal 6) chasing 197 Mangal cashes in from the PP regulations by flat batting a cross bat hoick wide of Patel at mid-on for four.

But Cook got a good ball from Rahat that took the edge.Alex Hales swished with a cross bat outside his off stump and sent a skimmer to Mohammed Hafeez at first slip – who, to the amazement of most familiar with his usual efforts, hung on.

Some might add a respectable grounding in Latin and Greek, a stern respect for the injunction never to play a cross bat to a straight ball at cricket, and the ability to flick an ink pellet of well-judged saturation.Yes, the British should learn languages, and they are easier to acquire when young.

One Kent supporter wrote that Leyland was a "cross bat village-greener".

You can also play cross bat shots but these have a higher risk and require more practice.

Afridi gets a couple more to square leg, then holes out to long on, cross batting a slow, short ball.

Bell gets off the mark with a cross-bat dab.

White adds another with a cross-bat shot at a short ball that goes wide of mid on.

Dhoni does but only gets a single with a rather ragged-looking cross-bat drive to mid on.

It's a bit of a nothing cross-bat shot that loops up in the air and is taken by KP on the circle at mid-off.