Sentence examples for opening stands from inspiring English sources

His patience and sound technique paid off in two century opening stands and an increasing general sense of permanence.

Give that he has scored two Test centuries, and that he and Cook shared six opening stands of 50 or more in 17 innings, which is more than Cook has managed in combination with every other opener (Strauss, Root, Carberry) in the last two years, and that he is two years younger than Carberry, I think there was a strong case for including him as the reserve batsman.

But, weather permitting, Pietersen said he was hoping for a repeat of the opening stands of 57 and 67 already recorded in the series.

When the opening stands of "Get Lucky" were heard, however, the rush was on.

Woodfull formed an opening partnership with Bill Ponsford at state and international level which yielded 18 century opening stands.

He scored 34 and 84 in Australia's only innings of the Fourth and Fifth Tests in Johannesburg and Durban, making solid opening stands with Fingleton, who scored three consecutive centuries.

The openers took advantage to combine for an opening stand of 122.

Rory Burns and Zafar Ansari shared an unbroken opening stand of 186 as Surrey totally dominated the opening day against Gloucestershire at Bristol.

Sarfraz, dropped by wicketkeeper Gary Wilson standing up to Kevin O'Brien on 37, shared an opening stand of 120 with Ahmed Shahzad, whose cut shots benefitted from Irish inaccuracy.

His opening stand-up jokes display as much love for wordplay as for argument.

The foundation of Northants' success was laid with a confident opening stand of 124 between Tim Roberts and Rob White.