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

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1 It proved to be Gooch 's day ; with Slack he put on 89 for the second wicket in seventeen overs , setting the foundations for the later onslaught .
2 Following a quiet start on the third day , the pair produced the most assured batting of the match to date as they posted a New Zealand record stand for the second wicket .
3 He then made 93 at Hadleigh , for whom Ian Piddington ( 90 not out ) and Olly Magnus ( 64 not out ) added 137 for the second wicket without being separated .
4 But Graeme Hick arrived to help Gooch add a further 80 for the second wicket — Hick driving Tim May straight for six and also including five fours in his 36 .
5 McCrum had his eye on a century when he cruelly slipped at the crease and was run out , but his stand of for the second wicket with John Gilliland , who made 32 , put his side firmly in the driving seat .
6 Kevin Arnott and Alistair Campbell put on 51 for the second wicket before the former was bowled by Maninder for 21 .
7 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 .
8 But then more wickets fell , and the eighth was down for 103 ; only for Logie and Bishop to put on 74 for the ninth wicket , and when Logie was last man out just two short of a well-deserved hundred , the score was 199 .
9 At 200 for 6 , Malcolm got Moseley and Ambrose ran out Hooper , only to make amends by putting on 34 for the ninth wicket with Bishop which would prove vital .
10 Younis and Wasim Akram added 46 for the ninth wicket , taking Pakistan to victory from the depths of 95 for 8
11 His influence grew by the season , and in May 1951 he achieved , at The Oval , what were to be his career-best batting and bowling figures : 87 against Glamorgan ( 10 fours and a six ; 161 in 110 minutes with Geoff Whittaker for the ninth wicket ) and 7 for 49 on a helpful pitch against Lancashire .
12 Ratnayeke hit 13 boundaries in adding 124 for the seventh wicket with de Silva , whose 50 was his maiden half-century in first-class cricket .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 He and Washbrook once put on 350 for the first wicket against Sussex .
16 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 .
17 With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket .
18 Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong .
19 474 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket .
28 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 .
29 Captain Kim Barnett and the Peter Bowler the batsman putting on a hundred and two for the first wicket .
30 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 .
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