Sentence examples for in patchy form from inspiring English sources

Despite being in patchy form, 20-year-old spinner, Karl Carver, was given a game and er … sliced through the late middle-order taking three wickets in no time.

Sweden's Robin Soderling, a recent world No 4, has not played for nearly three years following his diagnosis, while the illness ended the career of Croatia's Mario Ancic, a former world No 7. Watson had a good Australian Open, where she reached the third round, but had been in patchy form since and was troubled by injury.

QPR had been in patchy form going into the contest, while Watford had won only one of their previous seven league fixtures.

The match should see two youthful and attractive footballing sides produce a good advert for third-tier football - but with the Alex also in patchy form there could be a long Saturday evening walk for the losing manager's dog.

But Jackson was frequently ill and his unfamiliarity with English pitches resulted in patchy form.

Despite taking five wickets on his Test debut in 2003, Anderson's patchy form meant he was in and out of the England side as coaches tried to tinker with his action.

Arsenal will go into the game reeling from setbacks at home and abroad as patchy form in the Premier League has been accompanied by an FA Cup exit at Sunderland and a 4-0 loss at Milan in the first leg of a Champions League tie that is surely beyond redemption.

Murray arrived in Paris with expectations dampened by patchy form since his back surgery last September and his indifferent record on clay.

Injured stand-off Stefan Ratchford is confident that Warrington's patchy form will improve in the coming weeks.

Despite showing recent "green shoots" of recovery, he has also been picked in the hope that his largely patchy form is temporary and underlying class has more permanence.

The patchy form of Contador and Nibali, combined with the stranglehold in which Sky quickly grabbed the race, made it something of a no-contest.