Example sentences of "took [adj] wickets in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
| 2 | Turner , 25 , took 53 wickets in 24 first-class matches for the county but has been overtaken by Darren Flint 's progress this season . |
| 3 | He took 681 wickets in first-class cricket , including all ten in an innings ( amazingly , all were clean bowled ) for the North versus the South in 1850 . |
| 4 | During his American trip he took six wickets in six balls , bowling underarm against teams composed of twenty-two men from the USA and Canada . |
| 5 | The destroyer — Malcolm Marshall took 35 wickets in the 1988 series . |
| 6 | Craig McDermott , who took 31 wickets in the five Tests , was named Player of the Series |
| 7 | Which West Indian pace bowler took 323 wickets in the period in Test matches and played County Cricket with Hampshire ? ( 1 ) 5 . |
| 8 | He twice took ten wickets in an innings , and his analysis of ten wickets for ten runs against Nottinghamshire in 1932 , including the hat trick , remained a world record . |
| 9 | Kapil Dev , who took five wickets in a Test innings for the 23rd , time took his overall haul to 397 . |
| 10 | Against Auckland at Eden Park he took five wickets in each innings and scored 110 in his first appearance at the crease . |
| 11 | In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42 . |
| 12 | It was not until 1947 that he was selected by Surrey for a Championship match , and in 1948 he twice took five wickets in an innings . |
| 13 | He took nine wickets in an innings on seven occasions . |
| 14 | Ellcock , 26 , took 117 wickets in 46 first-class matches at 29.01 during an injury-plagued 10-year career since making his debut for Worcestershire while still a pupil at Malvern College in 1982 . |
| 15 | At least Ellcock , who took 117 wickets in 46 first-class matches at 29.01 apiece , has other career strings to his bow . |
| 16 | Hendrick , who played for Notts for four years after 13 seasons with Derbyshire from 1969 , took 87 wickets in his 30 Test appearances . |
| 17 | Richard Snell , Somerset 's new overseas signing , took four wickets in each innings |
| 18 | He took two wickets in each innings and did well enough to merit further matches . |
| 19 | There were cries of ringers ' when Steady Steadman took two wickets in his first cover . |
| 20 | He took two wickets in his first over and finished with five for 68 bowling at the end which offered encouraging lift . |