Sentence examples for wicket from inspiring English sources

Not every player can go out like Muttiah Muralitharan, taking his 800th wicket with his final ball in Test cricket, or Nasser Hussain, hitting the winning runs to go to a final century at Lord's.

Step forward Gary Wilson, who was often the aggressor in a stand of 203 for the sixth wicket that saw the Irish wicketkeeper finish up unbeaten on 119.

Our goal as a bowling unit was to try and hit the top of off stump which is the best place to bowl on that wicket".

Thankfully it was short-lived as Broad, who spent an hour off the field getting the ankle iced, returned to bowl without any apparent discomfort and took a wicket during the final session, knocking out the off stump of the home captain, Jacques Taylor.

"That was an outstanding hundred in the circumstances, with the backs to the wall and on a wicket like that.

A 55-minute spell without losing a wicket suggested sterner resistance on the third morning than they had shown on day two, yet the loss of Shivnarine Chanderpaul catalysed their demise.

The left-armer Keith Barker completed a five-wicket haul in the first innings and then passed the baton to the international trio Chris Woakes, Rankin and Jeetan Patel, their leading wicket-taker who wrapped things up with wickets in consecutive overs, in the second.

Colin Graves, the incoming chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, made Pietersen a live issue again on Sunday when he said a return for the 34-year-old batsman was possible if he scored big runs in county cricket, an unexpected development which came hours after England's nine-wicket thrashing by Sri Lanka in Wellington, the team's third heavy defeat of a demoralising World Cup.

Already it can be said that there has been only one score made in the fourth innings at Headingley in excess of that which England would require now – albeit in a winning cause, when in 1948, Australia made 404 for three, thanks largely to a second-wicket stand of 301 between the opener Arthur Morris and, inevitably, Don Bradman.

England arrived in Perth 2-0 down, having been obliterated in Brisbane by 277 runs and succumbing to final day jitters in Adelaide as their batsmen collapsed to 129 all out, en route to a six-wicket defeat.

Harris, Australia's leading wicket-taker in England, said consistency was key to toppling England's big hitters at home, naming Ian Bell as the biggest threat.