Sentence examples for glorious drive from inspiring English sources

He's welcomed back with a glorious drive from Taylor that beats Finn to the cover boundary.

7th over India 15-2 A glorious drive form Ganguly only just evades sprawling dive at square leg as it runs through towards the boundary.

It was our first wedding anniversary, and this long weekend was meant to provide the perfect backdrop: a romantic train journey; a glorious drive through the Highlands; and two nights on beautiful, mountainous, desolate Skye.

A beauty from Bopara, who brings up his half century (from 23 balls) with a glorious drive over the covers) 11.53am GMT 19.2 overs: England 181-9 (Bopara 46, Briggs 0) 33 from five balls.

James Morrison equalised with an absolute peach of a goal after 14 minutes, making the most of a weak clearance by Nemanja Vidic to give Tomasz Kuszczak no chance with a glorious drive from the edge of the area, and the fact that the scores remained level at the interval was wholly due to weak home finishing and poor refereeing.

Halifax doubled their lead when Maynard arrowed a glorious drive into the roof of the net from the edge of the area.

But Alex Gidman eased the pressure with a half-century full of glorious drives.

His innings for Essex at Bristol included three glorious drives off one over before he was trapped lbw by the Gloucestershire medium-pacer Benny Howell.

Smith, in particular, played some glorious drives, and there were also a high proportion of full-tosses, clinically dispatched; far too many loose deliveries for a Test bowler – 49 runs from seven overs is not the ideal return.

Eight decades later, Bradman recalled the innings, "as if it were yesterday", describing it as full of "delicate leg-glances, powerful pulls, cuts and glorious drives" and concluding that it was one of the best innings he had seen in his lifetime.

His ninth first-class century and his first for exactly a year came just before tea with yet another glorious cover drive.