Example sentences of "[num] for [art] first wicket " in BNC.

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1 With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket .
2 In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over .
3 When Haynes and Best put on 113 for the first wicket it all became academic , the main interest being whether Best would get his hundred .
4 Adrian Griffith ( 34 ) and David Wright ( 26 ) put on 45 for the first wicket , before Barry Metcalf ( 23 not out ) and Steve Wundke ( 33 not out ) saw Chester home .
5 McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket .
6 He and Washbrook once put on 350 for the first wicket against Sussex .
7 Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong .
8 John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus .
9 There was no hint that Waringstown would be kept down to such a moderate total when Shane Harrison and Brian Sturgeon put on 46 for the first wicket .
10 Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost .
11 In 1887 , he hit 151 for England against MCC at Lord 's in the Centenary Match , he and Shrewsbury adding 266 for the first wicket .
12 When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were .
13 After Greenidge and Haynes had put on 96 for the first wicket , Fraser had Greenidge lbw ; immediately after the interval Haynes hit Malcolm 's second ball for four , only for the next ball to leap up at him and give Lamb an easy catch .
14 Captain Kim Barnett and the Peter Bowler the batsman putting on a hundred and two for the first wicket .
15 474 set England a stiff target but the pitch was less malicious than the earlier ones and Gooch and Slack put on 127 for the first wicket .
16 When the county followed on 179 behind Surrey , he and T.C. O'Brien put on 228 for the first wicket to create a win by 79 runs .
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