Example sentences of "for the [num ord] wicket [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Latham and Andrew Jones put on 127 for the second wicket before the opener was run out when his partner failed to respond to a call for a run .
2 Gooch and Pringle then added 113 for the seventh wicket and Neil Foster gave good support to remove all fears of an Essex follow-on .
3 He also enjoyed staunch support from both Salisbury ( 12 ) , who stayed 82 minutes to help add 73 for the seventh wicket and Tufnell , who was 10 not out at the close and had become the fourth England player in the match to better his previous best Test score .
4 Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong .
5 Moxon and Kellett ( 87 ) , rattled up 203 together for the first wicket after Yorkshire had been put in to bat .
6 Lara and Arthurton raised West Indian hopes with a left-handed partnership of 52 for the fourth wicket but both were undone by Donald 's speed in the final session and the match seemed all but signed , sealed and delivered to South Africa entering the rest day .
7 236 for 2 overnight became 296 for 7 next morning as England bowled themselves back into the game , but Lloyd and Garner put on 83 for the eighth wicket and then Holding and Croft an unbeaten 67 for the tenth as the bowlers tired , enabling Lloyd to declare on 468 .
8 England wicketkeeper Alec Stewart hit 75 and helped Thorpe put on 136 for the third wicket but Surrey could only manage 233 for six in 83 overs .
9 West Indies soon lost their openers , but then Gomes went glory-chasing ; with Richards , he put on 206 for the third wicket and , with Lloyd , 124 for the fifth .
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