How To Use Bowler In A Sentence

The leading spin bowler will also feature automatically in one of them. Times, Sunday Times
Agarkar, it might be observed, is a much better bowler with the old ball when he can generate reverse swing.
But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman. From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
Vic Craven edged a ball on to his stumps to make the former England star only the fifth bowler currently playing anywhere in the world to have joined the elite club.
Their strokeplay was confident as England's bowlers began to wilt in the heat. The Sun

To Slegge's annoyance, he very soon found that if the prestige of the school was to be kept up Glyn and Singh must be in the eleven, for the former in a very short time was acknowledged to be the sharpest bowler in the school, while, from long practice together, Singh was an admirable wicket-keeper -- one who laughed at gloves and pads, was utterly without fear, and had, as Wrench said -- he being a great admirer of a game in which he never had a chance to play -- "a nye like a nork. Glyn Severn's Schooldays
And there are no bonnets or bowler hats. The Sun
I suspect this match will not be the best advertisement for it - the pitch is the kind that'll drive the bowlers to drink and dissolution.
And not only the punters: TV's Angular Ex-England Fast Bowler Punditry Eminence could be seen holding court in raddled picnic pose, a tiny plastic Viking hat on his head. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
Peter Bowler has spent years resurrecting old and forgotten words that are spectacularly precise in their meaning.
Leg theory, bowling to a legside field, had been around since the turn of that century and was perfected in particular by the Derbyshire inswing bowler Fred Root. How Bob Wyatt's revelations blow a raspberry at history of bodyline
The ball was old and the pitch was slow and Jones, as was his wont, was moving around the crease to disrupt the bowler's line. Jack decided to stand up to the stumps.
It was very difficult facing good spin bowlers on a wicket that sometimes bounced up around your shoulder and the next one's skidding straight through. Times, Sunday Times
The injury to the world's best fast bowler has cast the Ashes battle in a completely new light.
The bowlers were very well backed up by the fielders, and the hosts were pegged back to 19 for three from 12 overs, with Koram being the pick of the bowling with three wickets from six maiden overs.
He went down the wicket even to bowlers of extreme pace with the intention of making them drop the ball short, and when they did so, he would cut or pull the ball savagely.
In a bowler hat and smoking jacket to portray the world - famous sleuth, Downey (see photo) is reminiscent of another British icon - Charlie Chaplin.
The Indian captain tried a cut shot and was caught behind just three deliveries later to give the bowler a wicket in his very first over.
And in the early part of his career before his back trouble, Botham was a genuine strike bowler who could swing the ball both ways.
As for the bouncer, the fast bowler's ultimate weapon in many ways, you generally keep a little bit in reserve.
Australian tradition whereby leading bowler "outs" English batsman he intends to install as personal whipping boy usually captain, star man, or chief posho. The Ashes 2010 A-Z: baggy greens, doing a Harmy and lucky red hankies
The value of five bowlers was highlighted again as the wickets were shared. Times, Sunday Times
The fielders try to retrieve the ball quickly and return it to the bowler.
One criticism of the young fast bowler is, he is not particularly aggressive; he has never sledged an opponent on the field.
However, Razzaq swung hugely at Sidebottom and was caught at short third man, Gul pulled the next ball to deep square leg and Shoiab, having hit Bresnan for only the sixth four of the innings to go with the three sixes, was comprehensively yorked to give the bowler his third wicket. Pitiful Pakistan hit rock bottom as England stroll to second win
The new ball bowlers cannot, it seems, swing the ball; the slow bowlers can hardly spin it.
He's a very aggressive bowler -- he always bowls the ball straight at the batsman's body.
The Drumaness bowler scythed through the defence of Alan Millar with just the second delivery of his first over, dismissing the Bangor opener for 4 runs.
How many people can say they bowled with one of the greatest women bowlers ever - and won?
His willingness and ability to take on the world's best bowlers make him so watchable and so valuable to a team. Times, Sunday Times
And sometimes when you play five bowlers, the fourth seamer doesn't get a lot of bowling. Times, Sunday Times
It will be a moment of deep sadness that will, unless some bowlers of similar calibre are unearthed soon, herald Sri Lanka's slide down the world rankings.
The bowler bowled, the batsman, instead of backing further away, wafted at the ball, which looped up towards mid-off, who, miraculously, caught it. Why Pakistan's poor slip catching is itself catching
The seven-time Pro Bowler has been paving the way for 1,000-yard tailbacks for 15 years now, largely thanks to his unique speed for a lineman and ability to pull on sweeps from the interior of the line. The not-so-Super team: Best players never to reach the final
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Amid the problems, Paul Smith re-emerged as a seam bowler demanding respect.
On stage he would be dressed in evening wear, a bowler hat and a stainless steel waistcoat.
Grooms would omit the frock coat for a plain single-breasted overcoat, and substitute the top hat or bowler with a flat cap. Ask Evangeline | Edwardian Promenade
Ajmal is an excellent player and an outstanding bowler.
The bowlers, camogie players and footballers are also in the middle of a busy season so there's plenty going on in the community at the moment.
I've got a springer spaniel called Bracken, after Australian bowler Nathan Bracken, and a peke, Hoggard after England's Matthew Hoggard. Jonathan Agnew: 'I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott'
A misfield from Bopara in the deep led to Redmond turning for a second; he was stranded half way down when McCullum sent him back, but Kieswetter's overpitched throw went right through the bowler Broad. The Guardian World News
The bowlers lost their length because they were being attacked, not that the margins are great between the perfect yorker and something sufficiently awry to disappear. Times, Sunday Times
Timeless designs and an unswerving dedication to quality have ensured a steady flow of business – whether you're in the market for a bowler hat, a cap, a beret, a panama, a straw hat, a montero or any other type for that matter, they'll have it. 10 of the best shops for bargains in Barcelona
So he used seven bowlers in the morning, including some liquorice allsorts from himself, just before lunch. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, the bowlers bowled a few wides and no-balls, in addition to the batsmen being lucky with a few edges.
Charlie senior, famed for his red nose and bowler hat, was known all over the world for his tricks, humour and ability to play countless musical instruments.
A hundred years ago Bradford's beautiful Wool Exchange resounded with dealings of bowler-hatted haggling merchants.
Since making his debut against England in Nagpur more than five years ago, the injury-prone and temperamental outswing bowler has managed just 24 appearances. India's Zaheer Khan almost certain to miss second Test against England
Lane however had their own batting aces and the Park bowlers struggled as S Hargreaves made 69 and Oliver Halliday 53.
Australia bowler Brett Lee dives to catch England batsman Andrew Strauss for 37.
In a bowler hat and smoking jacket to portray the world - famous sleuth, Downey (see photo) is reminiscent of another British icon - Charlie Chaplin.
She has been inducted into the TSWBA Bowling uranologist of Fame and is a digit instance TSWBA Bowler of the Year. Xml's Blinklist.com
It isn't easy to score runs against pace bowlers.
Actually the bowler and catcher do tend to meet up after getting a wicket and congratulate each other.
Today, you see beginning bowlers showing up on league night with six or eight balls.
It is at the gates of this College you are most likely to see another traditional Oxford sight a Bulldog (a university policeman or Proctor wearing a bowler hat.)
It is a toy monkey wearing a red and white striped shirt, a green apron and a bowler hat.
Members of Britain's Bowler family, enacting a Victorian lifestyle for PBS's ‘The 1900 House,’ have to read by gaslight and boil their laundry.
A predator in every sense of the term, a giant among fast bowlers.
Stuart MacGill, Warne's replacement, is a perfectly-good bowler, but he struggled, so much so that his body language often verged on despair.
It is no different from a batsman in cricket facing the wicketkeeper while the bowler is already running in to bowl. Times, Sunday Times
They adapted to the variable bounce, and then launched into the bowlers in a flurry of cuts, sweeps, drives and lofts over the infield.
Few want to see fast bowlers tamed. Times, Sunday Times
The bass player, an exceptionally tall, lean man with a bald head out of which sprouted a few knots of corkscrewed hair, looked a bit like Curtly Ambrose, the once-feared West Indies pace bowler.
In our 20 previous Women's Bowler of the Year awards, never had there been such a deadlock.
Of the top ten bowlers in Test cricket, eight are quick bowlers. Times, Sunday Times
The new balls made strikes much easier, so bowlers began to pay less attention to the complex skill of getting spares.
In fact he is three bowlers in one. Times, Sunday Times
Sure, the pitch was tricky and helped both seam bowlers and spinners. The Sun
A bowler-hatted type of military bearing reacted, blocking their progress and remonstrating with them for their loutish behaviour. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
He'll be wearing a frock coat and a bowler hat. Times, Sunday Times
If Glenn McGrath, arguably currently the world's finest fast bowler, drops a short one, cut or hook him.
Is he a genuine all-rounder or a bowler who bats? Times, Sunday Times
He has a contrasting effect on the two sets of bowlers. Times, Sunday Times
Its subject is no more than an elderly man in a bowler hat turning round in the street as if to see what is following him.
The Greater San Diego Open drew more than 400 amateur bowlers for the pro-am competition, a tribute to DeLuca and the PWBA.
Pietersen, who has fallen three times trying to quicken the rate, each time to the inexperienced leg-break bowler Jeevan Mendis, could easily be depicted as a victim of overcaution elsewhere, but he remains scrupulously loyal as he tries to adjust to England's three-captain system. Kevin Pietersen on the defensive over England's misfiring batsmen
All it took was a stare and a crook of the eyebrow from any one of the quartet of West Indian quicks in those days for the batsmen to know that a bowler was upset.
Instead of launching it over the sightscreen, he could only hit a skimming drive that the bowler snaffled nonchalantly. Times, Sunday Times
Over-arm bowling was still not the thing in those days, but J. Caesar was a fast round-arm bowler.
The fast bowlers were brought on again after the interval.
And there are no bonnets or bowler hats. The Sun
The conditions at that stage were unplayable, more so for the bowlers and fielders than the batsmen. Times, Sunday Times
He is near the top of any batsman's list of least favourite bowlers to face. The Sun
Anyway, I'm more than happy to take on these women bowlers in the nuddy if needs be.
This does not mean that the pace bowler has spent the winter at home by choice. Times, Sunday Times
We are talking about the best bowler in one-day cricket right now. The Sun
He is a right-hand bat and right medium fast bowler.
I looked back at the cursing driver in time to see him close the door on another latecomer, a cove in a brown suit and bowler who was demanding that he open it again, but jarvey wasn't having any, and the bus rolled off with the fellow staring after us through the glass. THE NUMBERS
When adopting a stance, the bowler should be looking primarily for ease and comfort.
As a batsman or bowler any player has to accomplish certain things to be in the team.
They picked their best batsman, their best bowler and their best all-rounder.
England needed him in the batting powerplay to take on the slow bowlers. Times, Sunday Times
Dimly he recalled a spry, lame old fellow wearing a smart bowler. COFFIN ON THE WATER
He is a vegetarian, a South Indian and a gentleman, and a world-class fast bowler.
According to the International Cricket Council, ninety-nine per cent of all test bowlers chuck!
For a bowler who mainly relies on swing, you'd expect Hoggard to enjoy the conditions in England.
Against the seamers, he essentially lines up to off stump and looks to make the bowlers bowl to him, before working to the leg side. Times, Sunday Times
Dwayne Bravo (18) was frustrated into an injudicious heave straight to deep cover and Baugh (15) looked to have been trapped plumb in front by Shahid Afridi's googly before being given lbw to the same bowler despite a clear inside edge. Pakistan's Ahmed Shehzad scores century to subdue West Indies
Our bowlers were doing the job but we were failing with the bat and we didn't stick to our plan and didn't have wickets in the end.
These were three prize scalps, all of them got out by the bowler rather than handing their wickets to him. Times, Sunday Times
The mourners came in traditional dress - frock coats, top hats and bowlers.
The bowler is permitted, before entering his delivery stride, to attempt to run out the non-striker. The Sun
She was an avid duckpin bowler and bowled in a league for many years. The Herald-Mail Online
In our domestic game we are not seeing a long line of spinners and fast bowlers. Times, Sunday Times
Playing him in that position helps us to play four bowlers and bat deeper down.
Unlike the pre-war fast bowlers he was an excellent fielder in the deep and was possessed of a wonderful throwing arm.
England needed him in the batting powerplay to take on the slow bowlers. Times, Sunday Times
Butcher was prepared to take chances as he took on the bowlers but played with sense, aggression and confidence.
A bowler breaking down too often is not only a problem for the team but also detrimental to his own career.
I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat.
It requires a bowler with a strong mind, a calm demeanour and a quick understanding of what is required. Times, Sunday Times
The left-arm swing bowler has now gathered up 21 Championship wickets in the last six innings and he has taken them at an incredible average of 8.76 runs apiece.
He carted pace bowler Shane Bond for a huge six over his head before being dropped at mid-off by Mark Richardson.
In September to mid November, the training program will reach its peak with the bowlers expected to play up to 75 games.
India has great batsmen and so-so bowlers, and Indian conditions are very different to everywhere else in the world.
More than 100 ten-pin bowlers from across the county were looking to strike gold when they came to Keighley.
He's a good bowler, that guy. Times, Sunday Times
It was a humbling experience for the England bowlers, but it is the batsmen who will have to exceed themselves. Times, Sunday Times
We went to work on big red buses, in bowler hats. Times, Sunday Times
He embarrassed the pundits, and pulverized the best bowlers that the region offered.
It developed into a panel of professional bowlers who visited about 50 Lancashire greens a year, and who were paid a percentage of the gate money.
At the venue later, a stagehand tells me that the airlines flying into Reno used to have lots of problems because of all the bowlers converging on this city.
Regulations in English cricket decree that if a bowler is reported for throwing in a match for a first time, the report remains confidential. Times, Sunday Times
On stage he would be dressed in evening wear, a bowler hat and a stainless steel waistcoat.
With the pitch likely to help quick bowlers, England should field six specialist batsmen. The Sun
My guess is that the new rules will put the bits-n-pieces all-rounder out of the game and encourage teams to pick genuine all-rounders or specialist batsmen/bowlers as the substitute.
Fast bowlers bang the ball in but nothing hits the splice of the bat, there are no edges, shoulders drop and there is an air of lethargy and helplessness in the movement of fielders.
After Sri Lanka's punishment was announced, ICC General Manager David Richardson said that the game's governing body also doesn't want to see pitches that are too easy to bat on, but added that the balance at Galle was too weighted in favor of the bowler. 'Bad' Pitches Make for Cracking Cricket
The opening was a comically styled heist from an airline, with lots of men in bowler hats and a jaunty soundtrack. Times, Sunday Times
He's joined the bowler - hatted brigade working in the City.
I like classic hats - this baseball cap, for instance, or a bowler hat.
In their awkward approaches to the line and aw-shucks attitudes about gutter balls and unmade spares, they represent the complacent, non-competitive face of so many bowlers today.
Sammy would again feature in that session when he came on as the first change bowler, to capture two wickets in an aggressive spell of seam bowling.
The pitch has not become an insurmountable problem, devoid of life and hope for bowlers. Times, Sunday Times
In addition there was a fellow in a brown bowler hat, another in a shapeless cloth cap with a peak, and both added their encouragements, turning to Waistcoat in a laconic collusion.
All scored with great panache, to the bewilderment of bowlers who cannot work out how he does it. Times, Sunday Times
The value of five bowlers was highlighted again as the wickets were shared. Times, Sunday Times
Promising quick bowler Martin Howie returns and Paul Johnson also earns a recall.
A few hours later, a man cloaked in a dark brown trench coat and a brown bowler hat was brought to David's office.
For example, there is a bowler hat which is now as hard as stone.
I ticked his name instinctively but before clicking in my selection, I just thought "let me have a look at the other ten players" and I realised that six bowlers is definitely too many. Cricket Web - Latest News
If he identifies himself as an Ashes fast bowler this summer then Angus Fraser, his director of cricket at Middlesex, might reflect on a gentle earwigging from his dad a month ago and deem it worthwhile. England's Steven Finn at home but Ajmal Shahzad has capital capers
NAPIER: It was another day of hard 'yakka' for India's bowlers in the second Test here at McLean Park. Top Stories - Google News
He and his dad Terry will be paired up as change bowlers, with the attack expected to be opened by two new caps, Paul Hart of Spring View and Steve Holt of Clifton.
And especially if there's an angry mob waving bowlerhatted effigies at the front gate. Times, Sunday Times
Morning dress consisted of a morning coat, which was almost always single-breasted, of serge, worsted, cheviot or vicuna, and black or iron-gray; a waistcoat, either single - or double-breasted, which matched the coat or was of a lighter color; striped spongebag trousers (trousers of wool serge, baggy at knee); a cravat; and silk hat (though a bowler/Homburg could be worn). Dressing the Edwardian Man | Edwardian Promenade
The left-arm fast bowler, extracting much lift, bowled with hostility to contain the batsmen.
He was head and shoulders above anybody else in terms of the pressure he put on bowlers and fielders. Times, Sunday Times
I like classic hats - this baseball cap, for instance, or a bowler hat.
Choose from batsmen, bowlers, all-rounders or a new wicket keeper - whatever is needed to take your side to the top.
As well as his tailored suits and rolled umbrella, he always wore a bowler hat of a deep shade of brown. Times, Sunday Times
Here, the nostalgic and the brashly new constantly collide, yet there will always be plastic bowler hats and candyfloss on sale as well as somewhere to have your fortune told. Mass Photography: Blackpool Through the Camera – review
Their strokeplay was confident as England's bowlers began to wilt in the heat. The Sun
In fact having emerged from lunch to face bowlers freshened by the break and with a reasonably new ball, the duo wrested all advantage away from the Kiwi's by scoring 85 in an hour.
Beyond a police car and a dark van, he stopped beside a man in a raincoat and a bowler hat.
Increasingly Hick is having the same problem at county level as bowlers realise a potential flaw.
Early in the second innings, Best had bowled a beamer at Sangakkara and when he followed that up with another one to tail-ender Rangana Herath the umpire had to remove the bowler in accordance with the playing conditions.
Running downhill, a bowler is liable to bowl no-balls, overpitch and generally lose control. Times, Sunday Times
What a sight for a fast bowler! The Sun
Bangladesh dropped three catches during this phase, and needed their pace rather than spin bowlers to peg things back. Times, Sunday Times
A googly is a ball delivered by a bowler that looks as if it ought to break from left to right across the bat of a right-handed batsman. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
Athletic pace bowler with a natural outswinger, who became more potent in mid-career when he also mastered the inswinger. Times, Sunday Times
Robust farmer-types streamed past the cameras throughout the ‘Province’ sporting the usual bowler hat, sash and swords.
He approached McGrath with a swagger and challenged him with the question, ‘Am I not the greatest bowler you've ever seen?’
They're all swing bowlers too, and there are not many swing bowlers in the world at the moment.
However, many that are in bad condition pose difficult challenges, even for accomplished bowlers.
Seam bowler Kevin Nash, a gas reader by trade, turned up the heat on the visitors taking 4-46, and the man of the match award.
They must be tempted to introduce younger blood, while England will be delighted if the pitch again helps the pace bowlers. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. GOOCH: Yeah, he was one of the better bowlers in Grundy County back in the '70s and' 80s, and he taught me to bowl. Bowler Rolls Perfect Game Without Seeing Pins
Unlike the pre-war fast bowlers he was an excellent fielder in the deep and was possessed of a wonderful throwing arm.
Ndima received an unplayable delivery from Namibian strike bowler, Gerrie Snyman, edging to wicketkeeper Morne Karg.
A nimble slip fielder and occasional spin bowler, he played for Suffolk in 1938 and 1939 after leaving Hampshire.
In this series the pressure has been put on the Aussies by bowlers continuing to improve on their ability to swing the ball.
Essex had three debutants in their side including 32-year-old fast bowler Joseph Grant who plays for Dunnington in the Huntters the Estate Agent York Senior League.
After all, one did not often see a man with such a damaged face traveling in elegance: a new bowler hat and tweed suit.
We are fortunate that Chris Waters's Fred Trueman – a thorough and judicious book that does not equivocate over the great Yorkshire and England fast bowler's complexities and sometimes splenetic temperament – is not so tentative. Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman. From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
He plays for the House of Commons, and for those who have played or are interested in that marvellous game, he is a left-handed bowler, and he is an opening batsman, which is a very important place to be. Europe, NATO and North America and their Future Relationships
Nearly every other day at school, I wore combat boots, cook pants, a white shirt, suspenders, and a bowler.
And after he was brilliantly run out by Marcus Trescothick's direct hit at the bowler's end from backward point Read took over to see his side to the brink of victory, with a slice of luck in the penultimate over when he was dropped by George Dockrell at long-off off Steve Kirby. Somerset 156-6; Nottinghamshire 144-7 | Clydesdale Bank 40 match report
India are likely to go into the match with seven specialist batsmen and four bowlers against strong Sri Lankans.
He had a modest record as a leg-break bowler, taking only 11 wickets in 17 matches, but quickly proved his good judgment and calm authority. Times, Sunday Times
The upright cover-drives were easy on the eye, while the superb drives down the ground - between the bowler and mid-on - earned muted gasps of admiration from the locals.
Virtually all the working men wear flat caps, while the managerial staff wear bowlers.
However hard you try to change impressions the immediate image is of a pinstripe, a bowler hat and exclusivity.
Schenke is an opening left-handed bat and right arm medium pace bowler from Sydney's Balmain Club.
The former Indian seam bowler, Venkatesh Prasad, has announced his retirement from cricket.
No sign of that variable bounce, and the Notts bowlers haven't had the luck with the new ball they needed - Lyth has played and missed a bit, and Rudolph steered one uppishly between slips and gully. County cricket - as it happened!
Going to investigate, we're confronted with a man in a bowler hat and suit sitting at a keyboard looking rather like a waxwork.
Marriage, fatherhood and the small matter of grinding down the world's best bowlers have transformed his outlook. The Sun
As Warne surely knows, you can't have a serious career as a Test bowler without a hide of tungsten.
If a bowler could figure out the combination, he could open up the safe and get the money.
Graeme, a ten-pin bowler from Haworth, picked up the silver medal in his final event.
The bowler acquired the nickname of a billycock, after Billy Coke, and if one visits Locks today and asks for a billycock they will know exactly what sort of hat you are referring to.
They just have to take the name Shane Warne out of the equation and play the bowler himself, just play their natural game. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Going to investigate, we're confronted with a man in a bowler hat and suit sitting at a keyboard looking rather like a waxwork.
Inserting Lancashire on a showery day which began 10 minutes late and had 38 overs shorn from it, Warwickshire's pace bowlers gave the ball every opportunity to swing and remained on the attack even when Lancashire hurtled to 63 for one in a dozen overs before lunch. Lancashire v Warwickshire | County Championship match report
It was a humbling experience for the England bowlers, but it is the batsmen who will have to exceed themselves. Times, Sunday Times

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