Example sentences of "take [num] wickets " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clue to his role may be found in the fact that only seven times did he take five wickets in an innings and never once ten in a match . |
| 2 | No bowler may ever again take 200 wickets . |
| 3 | He held 59 catches and took 32 wickets at 47.00 with unremarkable medium-pace . |
| 4 | In 1952 , his best season when he took 75 wickets , Surridge became captain . |
| 5 | He was to play 58 Tests in all , taking 259 wickets at just under 21 , a lower average than any of the top West Indian bowlers except Marshall . |
| 6 | One of his regrets is that in four series against West Indies his record is very ordinary — one innings in which he took eight wickets , but little else of note — and he is aware that not having proved himself against the best team in the world will be held against him when reputations come to be assessed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For Hampshire he had a very successful first full season , taking 119 wickets at only 13 in 1974 , and having some good days in limited-overs cricket as well . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It seemed that Walsh had reached a career crossroads after taking 174 wickets in 50 Tests . |
| 11 | In 1955 he took 175 wickets , which is still a club record . |
| 12 | He played for Sussex from 1912 to 1937 , during which period he took 2,211 wickets for Sussex at an individual cost of 17.41 runs . |
| 13 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
| 14 | Waqar took 113 wickets , Bicknell 45 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Turner , 25 , took 53 wickets in 24 first-class matches for the county but has been overtaken by Darren Flint 's progress this season . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , England off-spinner John Emburey talked of his sympathy for Ian Salisbury , the leg-spinner who missed out on a senior tour place despite taking 85 wickets for Sussex last summer . |
| 18 | Medlycott turns the ball the most while the dependable Neil Kendrick finished last season much more strongly , displacing Medlycott and taking 10 wickets at Old Trafford . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The visitors made 91–9 and Newtown spin bowler Keith Harding took 7 wickets for 41 . |
| 21 | ‘ We promptly went out and proved a point by taking six wickets with a new one . |
| 22 | Yardley 's personal contribution was not small : he finished with 18,173 runs at an average of 31 , scored 27 centuries , took 279 wickets and 320 catches , despite losing five summers to the war and being wounded , with the Green Howards , in the Western Desert . |
| 23 | In all first-class cricket , he scored 19,034 runs at 26.65 including 21 centuries , and took 1894 wickets at 25.05 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Neil Howard took six wickets to clinch Billinge 's first win of the season over Salisbury . |
| 26 | Carl Lydiate took six wickets to set last year 's beaten finalists Croston on the way against Rainford . |
| 27 | It took them just 93 minutes yesterday to wrap up a crushing 10-wicket win , with Akram taking three wickets in 14 balls and Smith left high and dry on 84 . |
| 28 | His 34 , though , was the best score of the day ( and he was dropped three times , at 17 , 19 and 25 ) as India declined to 135 for 5 ( Tendulkar 31 , nightwatchman Ruju 1 ) by the close , with the fiery Hughes taking three wickets . |
| 29 | The Phoenix total is one of the lowest on record for the competition , Alan Nelson taking three wickets for 10 in seven overs to claim the man of the match tankard . |
| 30 | Barri Williams 's unbeaten 26 steered Tregaron to a six-wicket win over Aberaeron 2nds ( 64 all out ) , Will Davies and Arwyn Morgan both taking three wickets . |