Example sentences of "[noun] took [adj] wickets " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | Andrew Lake and Kevin Ash took three wickets each Tanfield School Stanley , restricted local rivals Greencroft to 58 for eight . |
| 4 | In one spell in the last session the Sri Lankans took three wickets for eight runs . |
| 5 | But although Frank took two wickets for South Africa and cousin J.T. took one for England , they failed to get each other out . |
| 6 | Which West Indian pace bowler took 323 wickets in the period in Test matches and played County Cricket with Hampshire ? ( 1 ) 5 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The destroyer — Malcolm Marshall took 35 wickets in the 1988 series . |
| 9 | David Whittaker hit an unbeaten 48 as Ormskirk reached 127–5 and then Paul Griffiths took four wickets for 19 runs as St Helens replied with 113–9 . |
| 10 | David Capel took three wickets to put Northants on top against Kent in the clash between the second and third placed championship teams . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Actually , it was an inspired gamble — in his first , albeit injury-hit , season in 1991 Taylor took 54 wickets and last year he grabbed 67 in Northants ' championship chase and suddenly Ted Dexter and the England selectors were knocking on the door . |
| 13 | There were cries of ringers ' when Steady Steadman took two wickets in his first cover . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The visitors made 91–9 and Newtown spin bowler Keith Harding took 7 wickets for 41 . |
| 16 | Mark Waugh 's miserable international season continued with a duck , one of two stumpings for Pandit as left-arm spinner Raju took three wickets . |
| 17 | LEADING LIGHT : Flintshire skipper Gareth Ryan took two wickets |
| 18 | Anthony Evans and Robin Varley took two wickets each . |
| 19 | Heyes scored 65 and then Potter took five wickets to overcome Action . |
| 20 | Bredbury won the toss and chose to bat but after a solid start Richard Francis took four wickets to leave Bredbury on 147–9 off their 45 overs . |
| 21 | On the mid-August weekend , when the Olympic match took place , Hirst and Rhodes took seven wickets between them at Taunton as Yorkshire took a firm grip on their match with Somerset . |
| 22 | Waqar took 113 wickets , Bicknell 45 . |
| 23 | In his career Surridge took 506 wickets at 28 runs each and in 267 matches took 375 catches . |
| 24 | In six overs Fraser took five wickets for six runs for figures of 5 for 28 off twenty overs , and West Indies were all out for 164 . |
| 25 | Neil Howard took six wickets to clinch Billinge 's first win of the season over Salisbury . |
| 26 | PHIL SIMMONS took four wickets for just three runs against Pakistan yesterday to record the most economical spell in one-day international cricket history . |
| 27 | Paceman Curtly Ambrose took two wickets , off-spinner Hooper two and Ian Bishop one . |
| 28 | Carl Lydiate took six wickets to set last year 's beaten finalists Croston on the way against Rainford . |