Sentence examples for defend this total from inspiring English sources

It will take a monumental effort to defend this total.

On this pitch, against this West Indies team, defending this total, England really must win this match.

Yet they defended this total tigerishly with their spinners to the fore, even though Graeme Swann was rested.

She'll need back-up from elsewhere, though, if England are to have any hope of defending this total.

"We could have defended this total if we had a better fielding side, but we have to make do with what we have got," India's captain, Mahindra Singh Dhoni, said with an air of resignation after the match.

"We knew we could defend the total after watching low-scoring games here in Nagpur," the Afghanistan coach, Inzamam-ul-Haq, said.

Two more arguments further defend this hypothesis.

Morgan said: "It would be very unfair to blame Reece, we lost the game with the bat and it's a huge credit to our bowling unit they came close to defending that total".

India won by 25 runs, the first team to successfully defend its total.

In the six-ball eliminator, the Sri Lankans managed to defend their total of 13.

It was not the match to risk trying to defend a total.