Example sentences of "took [adj] wicket " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held 59 catches and took 32 wickets at 47.00 with unremarkable medium-pace . |
| 2 | In 1952 , his best season when he took 75 wickets , Surridge became captain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In 1955 he took 175 wickets , which is still a club record . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Salisbury and Malcolm , the contrasting pair of bowlers on whom England had so creditably gambled , kept at it , and took another wicket apiece . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Waqar took 113 wickets , Bicknell 45 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Turner , 25 , took 53 wickets in 24 first-class matches for the county but has been overtaken by Darren Flint 's progress this season . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The visitors made 91–9 and Newtown spin bowler Keith Harding took 7 wickets for 41 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In all first-class cricket , he scored 19,034 runs at 26.65 including 21 centuries , and took 1894 wickets at 25.05 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Neil Howard took six wickets to clinch Billinge 's first win of the season over Salisbury . |
| 19 | Carl Lydiate took six wickets to set last year 's beaten finalists Croston on the way against Rainford . |
| 20 | In one spell in the last session the Sri Lankans took three wickets for eight runs . |
| 21 | Australia , who had set Sri Lanka 522 to win after declaring their second innings at 513 for five , appeared to be coasting home when they took three wickets before lunch to reduce the touring side to 208 for six . |
| 22 | Zimbabwe declared their first innings at 283–9 , 52 behind , then took three wickets before the Kiwis struggled to 187–4 by the close . |
| 23 | England captain/wicketkeeper Alec Stewart congratulates Chris Lewis who took three wickets for 43 runs on the third day of the Test . |
| 24 | David Capel took three wickets to put Northants on top against Kent in the clash between the second and third placed championship teams . |
| 25 | Mark Waugh 's miserable international season continued with a duck , one of two stumpings for Pandit as left-arm spinner Raju took three wickets . |
| 26 | He took three wickets leaving the tourists to declare at 388 for five at tea . |
| 27 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 28 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 29 | Home professional Colwin Cort , took four for 41 while Graham Bell , Graham Young and Brian Lewins took three wickets each to dismiss the Synners for 95 . |
| 30 | Andrew Lake and Kevin Ash took three wickets each Tanfield School Stanley , restricted local rivals Greencroft to 58 for eight . |