Sentence examples for on a bowler from inspiring English sources

Time and time again, he got a champion batsman's wicket by putting on a bowler he knew the batsman did not like".

Here's an e-mail from Gary Naylor earlier on Jordan, shedding a bit more light on a bowler I've been impressed with: "I saw quite a bit of Chris Jordan as a teenage tearaway at The Oval (him. not me).

It can have the same impact on a bowler.

With the quartet believing they had finished third in Moscow, Chambers put on a bowler hat in the raucous celebrations.

A batsman like Dilshan or Moeen can have a debilitating effect on a bowler's optimism.

However, it is widely believed throughout the cricketing community that atmospheric conditions can have a dramatic effect on a bowler's ability to make the ball swing, and this has perplexed the minds of sports engineers for decades.

Evelyn Waugh, who liked to ridicule the whole set-up, insisted on wearing a bowler hat when visiting the office, and was pleased to note 'Miss Brownell working away with a dictionary translating some rot from the French'.

However, he has no club and the scheduling of the county championship, with around one third of the games taking place before the end of May, means any potential employer might be reluctant to take on a spin bowler.

Having played professional cricket for 13 years, I know that "C'mon, knock his head off!" is one of the most common things you will hear a fielder shout to a bowler on the cricket field.

Here is René Magritte's painting of Botticelli's Flora projected on to the back of a bowler-hatted man, there Scottish surrealist Edward Baird's portrait of his girlfriend posing as Venus on Montrose Beach in 1934.

New Zealand was bowled out for 45 in the first innings of the first test in Cape Town after its new captain, Brendon McCullum, chose to bat first on a bowlers' pitch.