Example sentences of "took [adj] wickets at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held 59 catches and took 32 wickets at 47.00 with unremarkable medium-pace . |
| 2 | He had toured New Zealand with the young 1956–57 Australian ( non-Test ) side returning there three years later , again under Ian Craig 's captaincy , and in 1961 his travels were extended with a season at Colne , in Lancashire , where he took 70 wickets at 12 and hit 706 runs at 35 . |
| 3 | In 1964 he took 113 wickets at an average 19.27 ; in a 185-match first class career his 461 victims cost 24.27 apiece . |
| 4 | In all first-class cricket , he scored 19,034 runs at 26.65 including 21 centuries , and took 1894 wickets at 25.05 . |
| 5 | In his first four Championship matches , Walsh took 31 wickets at 9.51 , including 11 in the fixture against Yorkshire at Headingley and successive five-wicket hauls against Somerset at Gloucester . |
| 6 | In his career Surridge took 506 wickets at 28 runs each and in 267 matches took 375 catches . |
| 7 | In all first-class cricket , including several fiery outings for the Gentlemen versus the Players , he took 720 wickets at an average of 20.55 each . |
| 8 | Mitchell , who won five Test caps , took 1483 wickets at 20.59 in his career : he was the subject of a lengthy interview in WCM July 1986 . |
| 9 | Last season in grade cricket , back home , he took 42 wickets at a cost of 15 runs apiece . |
| 10 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 11 | He took 144 wickets at an average of 22.59 , including three hauls of 10 wickets in one match . |