Sentence examples for length delivery from inspiring English sources

It was in the slot, a length delivery, and Peterson clattered it over the ropes.

It was fuller, but not full - still basically a length delivery, but enough to draw him into the shot, and poorly timed enough that the catch went fairly gently.

It was a length delivery that just shaped away; Clarke tried to steer it to third man but got it too fine, and Faf du Plessis at second slip took a wonderful low catch.

He came down the track to drive a length delivery from Swann inside-out over extra-cover, but it gripped enough to take the edge and looped gently to Cook, running back from gully.

A rapid yorker length delivery clattered into off stump and a slide from 42 for one to 93 all out had begun.

2.07am GMT 89th over: NZ 253-9 (need 266; Martin 21, Boult 1) Trent Boult, backing away to a length delivery, plays a ridiculous lofted scoop to deep point for a single.

The modern mantra is that it is impossible to bowl "length" deliveries, especially at the end of the innings.

Though you wouldn't want to back a side whose skipper skips matches backing out with chronic back pain (even if you wouldn't back him to deal with back of a length deliveries from bowlers prepared to bend their backs and back their skills), the Aussies have to pick their men and back them all the way.

Even today on the walls of the famous Hambledon Bat & Ball pub, you can read the minutes of the meeting where straight bats, length deliveries and the middle stump were introduced.

Jonny Bairstow has gone for 95, cleaned up by an excellent full-length delivery from Morne Morkel.

The Victorian outside-edged a good-length delivery from Jadeja onto his off stump and departed for eight.