Sentence examples for year with the bat from inspiring English sources

Clarke's amazing year with the bat * Michael Clarke's 2012 Test scores.

It has been a curiously barren year with the bat for Read, who has been a stalwart in Nottinghamshire's middle order for a decade.

Neil Dexter had some luck for his century but appears to be back to his best after a slow year with the bat.

After a couple of lean years with the bat, Cook has been sensational for much of the last 12 months and that is reflected in him being the current leading Test run-scorer in 2015.

Three runs' difference is small, and Teixeira was much better than Howard last year, so I'm going to chalk up this season's performance to random variation and an off year for Teixeira defensively (just as off years happen with the bat, they happen with the glove, too).

In a three-season stretch from 2008 to 2010, Zito finished each year with the exact batting line: 6 for 51.

He continued his good hitting and fielding during his first year with the club, batting.266 with an OPS+ of 125 and leading the league again with 35 assists.

Playing with a broken right hand, he ended the year with the Senators and batted.244 over the course of the season.

The 32-year-old averages 40 with the bat in his 75 Tests, and Whitaker said: "Our number one priority is someone being 100% fit and we're confident Matt is.

Lee was certainly less prolific over the following few years: he averaged under 25 with the bat in each of the years from 1923 to 1925, and only passed 1,000 first-class runs in the first of the three.

He instead spent the year with the Single-A Greensboro Bats and walked 43 batters in 16.1 innings, going 0 5 with an 18.73 ERA in nine games; the Yankees removed him from their 40-man roster as a result.