The tension was on bowlersand batsmen alike now--all save Dan Billings, whose calmness was unimpaired.
Still, this sort of business is demoralising for bowlers and slow for the field, and a change of bowlers was consequently decided upon after about half an hour's play, when the score was at twenty-one.
Their best bowlers had been knocked about by the very batsmen whom the schoolhouse bowlers had dispatched with ease.
More than that, the ingenious noted the fact that the two best bowlers of the eleven were Bloomfield and Fairbairn, one from each house, who could also both field as wicket-keepers when not bowling.
Then followed a succession of short but smart innings, during which the Rockshire score crawled up to seventy, despite of a further change of bowlers and very careful all-round fielding by the school.
The bowlers were trying what the batsmen were made of, and the batsmen were trying what the bowlers were made of.
And the two second bowlers were Game and Porter, also one from each house.
At any rate, the allusion made them sad, and they relapsed into silence as the bowlers changed ends, and Pledge prepared to attack from his new base.
All classes of bowlers have stuck at Their efforts to dislocate Ducat; Their wiliest tricks He despatches for six, Which is what they decidedly buck at.
There was a young man who said, "Hobbs Should never be tempted with lobs; He would knock them about Till the bowlers gave out And watered the pitch with their sobs.
In school cricket one good batsman, to go in first and knock the bowlers off their length, may take a weak team triumphantly through a season.
Change-bowlers of various actions and paces, each weirder and more futile than the last, tried their luck.
The score rose from forty-five to a hundred, and from a hundred to a hundred and thirty-five, notwithstanding the substitution of two freshbowlers of established reputation and fair merit.
He had a good eye, and by resolutely placing his bat in the path of the approaching ball he achieved the twofold result of keeping up his wicket and goading the bowlers to impotent frenzy.
In vain the bowlers strained every nerve to get round or under those stubborn bats.
It was getting desperate for Westfield, and humiliating too, when one of their bowlers happened to change his style.
Perhaps it is to Japan that all the bowlers have gone, now that London has taken to the soft Homburg.
The feature which has transformed the bowling seems to be that now the best bowlers are fast with a break even on a hard wicket: whereas formerly they only broke on a sticky wicket.
The still astounding power of the best bowlers is shown by the havoc they make when they get a sticky wicket to bowl on.
The two bowlers we had down from Lord's thought no end of him.
They got out of one of the hill houses at night, and came down in disguise, in bowlers and false beards!
You're one of the very best bowlers there ever was in the school, Jan.
Charles Cave, stalking indolently next the wall, said he hoped Jan was going up to the 'Varsity, as they wanted bowlers there, and a man who could bowl like that would stand a good chance of his Blue at either Oxford or Cambridge.
It lasted well into the afternoon, when the pitch became difficult and one of the change bowlers took advantage of it, subsequently receiving his colours for a very creditable performance.
In the ninth and tenth frames three of their bowlers overstepped the foul line.
One would not say, of course, that the bowlersdid not do their best to dismiss the ecclesiastical student; they were conscientious men.
In the end he had taken seven wickets for ninety runs, while the rest of the three hundred and twenty-nine had been scored off the other bowlers of the side who had captured two wickets (one being run out) between them.
He knew, too, even more keenly, that he did not like the look of one of the bowlers in the very least.
But for the last fortnight no rain had fallen, and the light soil, quick to dry, was beginning to get hard and give bowlers such as David the crumbling wickets in which his soul delighted.
The batsmen are said to be in as long as they remain at their wickets, and their party is called the in-party; on the contrary, those who stand in the field with the bowlers are called the out-party.
In the three delineations just represented, we may observe that the players have only one bowl for each person: the modern bowlers have usually three or four.
Round-arm bowling was long and vigorously opposed, especially in 1826 when three matches were arranged between England and Sussex, the Sussex bowlers being round-arm bowlers.
There were seven instances before 1864 of two bowlers being unchanged in the match, and the Hon.
The result has been that in fine weather, when wickets are true and fast, bowlers have become increasingly powerless to defeat the batsmen.
The 1890 tour, though Murdoch reappeared as captain, proved disappointing, both the test matches being lost and defeats for the first time exceeding victories, though the two bowlers again performed marvellously well.
McDonnell's team in 1888 marked the appearance of the bowlers C.
Bowlers have consequently to a great extent abandoned all attempt to bowl the wicket down, aiming instead at effecting their purpose by bowling close to but clear of the wicket, with the design of getting the batsman to give catches.
When England had lost the first two matches, nine of the professionals refused to take part in the third, "unless the Sussex bowlers bowl fair, that is, abstain from throwing.
Change bowlers of various actions and paces, each weirder and more futile than the last, tried their luck.
Loss from bowlers not being ruffled, as they would be if feeling the runs should be stopped ” 7 7.
Bowlers should wear worsted socks to save blisters, and mind the thread is not fastened off in a knot, just under the most sensitive part of the heel.
Is it not a fact that few round-armed bowlers are clearly below the shoulder?
And once he practised for some match till he appeared to all thebowlers about Lord’s to have reduced batting to a certainty: but when the time came, amidst the most sanguine expectations of his friends, he made no runs.
In country matches, bowlers stipulate for four balls or six; why not make matches to play with a wicket of eight inches, or even twelve?
The fault of young bowlers is, they do not pitch far enough: they thus afford too long a sight of the ball.
Warsop,” said Clarke, “was one of the best bowlers I ever knew.
And, how few the bowlers who repeat the length from which a run is made!
We'll sneak our bowlersout of store and no one'll be the wiser.
All together they changed their school caps for bowlers and donned their overcoats.
Clark, twobowlers distinctly above the average of amateur cricketers.
Richardson and Hearne divided the wickets practically, and our bowlers did all that could have been expected of them.
He was one of those bowlers who manage to capture from six to ten wickets in the course of a season, and the occasions on which he bowled really well were few.
If the first pair of bowlers could dismiss five good batsmen, Lorimer's fast, straight deliveries usually accounted for the rest.
See what bowlers I'm making of you, and what fielders!
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