Sentence examples for successive maiden from inspiring English sources

A second successive maiden to McGrath.

Anderson produced an immaculate spell that brought him four successive maiden overs and thus helped Moeen, who had already dismissed Steve Smith, to take the valuable wicket of Michael Clarke.

Three successive maidens were played out, two of them by Anderson.

Which other sport can generate substantial newspaper column inches over the equivalent of the suspense created by five successive maidens?

The opener Rory Burns, stuck on the crease, was caught behind playing away from his body at Bailey, who had bowled four successive maidens with the new ball.

9.45pm GMT 93rd over: England 273-3 (Bell 1, Pietersen 23) That's successive maidens for Tim Southee who seems to be adopting that old fourth-stump line to Pietersen, as if he was settling in for a long day's work.

He also tackled six successive maidens from home skipper Glen Chapple with the new ball, before eventually cutting the Lancashire skipper for four.

9.57pm GMT 31st over: England 63-3 (Bell 16, Root 2) A second successive Boult to Bell maiden.

It was 11 innings over six years before the doctor made a second hundred; Compton's was his second in successive innings following his maiden effort at University Oval in Dunedin.

73rd over: England 256-4 (Thorpe 56, Flintoff 19) Looking every inch the respectably stolid top-order batter (in the mould of Chris Tavare) that we know he's not, Flintoff plays a straight bat to Banks for six successive balls and we have ourselves another maiden.

Broad claimed two for 13 in 13 overs, sending down eight maidens and stringing together 48 successive dot balls at one stage.