Sentence examples for defending straight from inspiring English sources

Chris Rogers managed it for a while until England cut off his lifeline by bowling continuously round the wicket to all left-handers and Adam Voges played as well as anyone in the second innings at Trent Bridge, defending straight and letting the ball go well.

It is comical - the ball bounced three times in the penalty area". This is embarrassing for Villa, not only the scoreline but defending straight from the circus.

And they had already squandered one chance by committing a foul when Coach Lawrence Frank wanted them to defend straight up.

Dr. Schilling's church was founded in 1975 to defend "straight chiropractors" like himself, who regard Western medicine as paganism or Satanism.

"Catchit!" comes the cry as Trott makes a hash of defending a straight ball from Steyn.

Many teams shirked at defending Howard straight up and resorted to intentionally fouling the notoriously shaky free throw shooter.

Most of the turnovers came in the halfcourt with Butler defending in straight-up man-to-man.

Hull KR head coach Craig Sandercock told BBC Radio Humberside: "We weren't good enough early on and it's always tough to try and defend seven straight penalties.

It forces the 76ers to double Shaq because they have nobody else who can defend him straight up.

Receiving a ball on middle and leg stump, he tried to defend it straight back down the pitch, rather than the conventional stroke to the leg side, and managed to edge the ball past the slips for four.

In 1973, at 14, Balukas successfully defended her straight pool U.S. Open title, defeating runner-up Donna Ries, a psychologist from Kansas City, Missouri, with a final score of 75 72 in 42 innings and a high of 26, earning her a $2,000 purse.