Sentence examples for seize the ball from inspiring English sources

England's talisman for the series Ian Bell was involved in a hotly-contested decision on the third day of the second Test as he farmed a short delivery from Ryan Harris to gully where Steve Smith was ready to pounce, diving forward to seize the ball on the bounce.

Chris Smalling had already lost his footing once when he fell on his backside in front of the home side's technical area, allowing Alejandro Dominguez to seize the ball and run fully 70 yards into the heart of the United area.

The Clippers center repeatedly extended his massive hands to seize the ball, doing it for the final time with 1.2 seconds left Thursday night at Oracle Arena when he grasped Stephen Curry's airballed three-pointer, flung a pass to teammate Chris Paul and raised his arm in triumph.

Bocanegra seized the ball and passed it forward to Klein, who went in uncontested and looped the ball over Lawrence into the top corner.

And so to Matthews who, when he seized the ball away from a Campbell surge with grateful arms, found St James Parkk buoyant.

It was relentless at times and on the few occasions that the home team seized the ball, Guardiola's players pressed aggressively and snapped at their heels to win it back almost immediately.

And he teed up the third by seizing the ball in the Dutch box, dashing past a defender and playing a reverse pass that seemed practically unfeasible at the speed he was running, and the angle he was at, presenting Allofs with a chance to make it 3-0.

Fittingly, it was immediately after that spell of snappy but aimless passing that Essien sprung into action - as if riled by Mikel's delicate dithering, he seized the ball in his own half and simply stormed towards the Nigerian box before teeing up Gyan.

5.46pm: New ball; Australia 269-3 aforgettableettable over from Jonathan Trott, England seize the new ball, but Australia hold firm and are well set to see out the day.

Poor control by O'Donnell allowed to Boyd to seize the loose ball and he rasped a shot a fraction wide as Killie pushed for a lead.

Farrell seized the loose ball, popped the ball up to Tuilagi outside him and the 17-stone centre thundered down the right and into the corner for only England's third try of the tournament.