He was a long way better than Neville-Smith, and Wyatt, and Milton, and the others who had taken wickets for Wrykyn.
There is nothing like a couple of unexpected wickets for altering the atmosphere of a game.
Barnes's remark that he supposed, unless anything happened and wickets began to fall a bit faster, they had better think of declaring somewhere about half past three or four, was met with a storm of opposition.
Seven wickets were down for thirty when Psmith went in.
As a matter of fact thewickets at Sedleigh were nearly always good.
There were twenty-five minutes to go, and fivewickets were down.
Two wickets were down for thirty-eight, whereas none had been down for thirty.
The present position, arrived at through many delightful adventures, was that Adams’s wanted twenty more runs to win, with two wickets to fall.
The fellow who was going to take all the wickets in the old boys’ match won’t be able to bowl a ball.
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.
Then ensued an hour of tip-top excitement, at the end of which nine wickets were down for seventy, of which David had taken seven.
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.
I took eight wickets against——” Margery had a good deal of David’s spirit, as well as his bodily aspect.
It was true that he had captured a quantity of Eagles’ wickets at small cost, but with the match in his hands, literally in his hands, he had let it go.
Things were going badly for the home-side; four wickets had fallen for thirty, and David was feeling colder and clammier every moment.
Two wickets fell in rapid succession after this, and David began putting on his pads.
She felt that he was only a little boy, in spite of all the wickets he had taken, and that she was a woman.
The wickets to be boards one foot square, mounted on a stake, which, when fixed in the ground, must be four feet nine inches from the ground.
The wickets to be sixteen yards apart, the bowling crease to be eight yards from the wicket.
The rules resemble those of cricket, but the wickets are square boards on posts; the bowler stands in the centre of the pitch, the bats used are round boards with a handle.
At the present day these games nearly everywhere are succeeded by cricket, but often of a very primitive form, the wickets being stones set on end, or a pillar of stones; while the ball is often wooden, and very rudely formed.
At the end of the first day Jack had scored above 500;--but elevenwickets had gone down, and only three of the most inferior players were left to stand up with him.
They had only made 150 runs on the previous day, and three wickets were down.
However, the House Eleven, after losing five wickets for thirty runs, at last began to put real batsmen into the field.
In two overs Pip had taken eight wickets (doing the hat-trick incidentally) for no runs.
Eighty-two for three wickets is a good score for a village club; but when the three wickets grew to four, and so on to six, without any appreciable increase in the score, things cannot be regarded as so satisfactory.
The frenzy of the Hivites was becoming almost monotonous, and it was hardly capable of augmentation when Pip bowled another man with his next ball, bringing his analysis up to five wickets for no runs.
You can't knock up a hundred and expect to take wickets directly afterwards.
But though he had taken two good wickets they had cost forty-four runs apiece; and his further services had been dispensed with.
All his little soul was concentrated on one idea--to get the last two wickets with the two balls remaining to him.
We shall win by nine wickets now," said Master Simpson with decision--"not five.
He is a good bowler, too; but somehow he is not taking wickets at present.
There was one Cambridge bowler," continued the girl, "who looked as though he ought to take wickets but didn't.
Always run with judgment and attention, never beyond your strength: good running between wickets does not mean running out of wind, to the suffusion of the eye and the trembling of the hand, though a good batsman must train for good wind.
This going in to Clarke’s bowling some persons think necessary for every ball, forgetting that “discretion is the better part of” cricket; the consequence is that many wickets fall from positive long hops.
For it must not be supposed that the whole county of Surrey put forth a crop of stumps and wickets all at once: we have already said that malt and hops and cricket have ever gone together.
Wisden once bowled ten wickets in one innings: Mr. Kirwan has done the same thing.
Mr. William Ward, it appears that the wickets were placed twenty-two yards apart as long since as the year 1700; that stumps were then only one foot high, but two feet wide.
In putting the batsmen in, it is a great point to have men in early who are likely to make a stand,--falling wickets are very discouraging.
Tom Walker was the most tedious fellow to bowl to, and the slowest runner between wickets I ever saw.
We scored 278 and only six wickets down, when the game was given up.
Away they sped with gamesome minds And souls untouched with sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drove the wickets in.
At Oxford you may see, any day in the summer, on Cowley Marsh, two rows of six wickets each facing each other, with a space of about sixty yards between each row, and ten yards between each wicket.
Then, with a chain of twenty-two yards, the relative positions of the two wickets may be accurately determined.
Three wickets had fallen for five runs, and life was worth living.
Also, he had taken eighteen wickets in the final house-match.
Nothing up to the present had made him realise the completeness of his exile so keenly as this remark of Mr Blackburn's about his bowling against the side for which he had taken so many wickets in the past.
The wickets pitched in the morning, they carried them in again, and plaudits renewed proved that their fame had not slumbered.
One of the bold men of Beckley at the wickets is Nick Frim, son of the gamekeeper at Beckley Court; the other is young Tom Copping, son of Squire Copping, of Dox Hall, in the parish of Beckley.
A private telegram received in Liverpool states that SHARP took seventeen wickets for no runs in eleven minutes.
At eight o'clock, when the wickets were drawn, they had obtained 22 runs for four wickets.
It was followed by a single wicket match between the same teams, when Blickling again won, with nine wickets to go down.
The game of wicket, which was a modification of cricket, was played with a soft ball five to seven inches in diameter, and with two wickets (mere laths or light boards) laid upon posts about four inches high and some forty feet apart.
It was necessary to run between the wickets at each strike.
Our march is to the wickets green, Our home is at the crease.
Ye Gentlemen of Holland That guard your native stumps, Ye come to bat on wickets damp, And block the ball that bumps.
After this the Fauga-sa batting slumped off again, and the day closed with something in excess of seven hundred runs to the team's credit, and thirty-nine wickets down.
When twenty-three wickets went down the first day for a paltry three hundred runs the situation looked more hopeless than ever.
Marston took two wickets in his first over, and at the other end a man was run out.
It was not particularly exciting; wickets fell with great regularity.
Three wickets were down for two runs; a panic descended upon the villagers.
There are few of us girls that make our own wickets in life," said Eva.
One stroke put Sophie out of the combat, the next struck upon me and then from me up to the head of the two last wickets that yet remained to be made.
At last, however, one slip of our antagonists threw the power into our hands, and Miss Sophie used it to take herself and me up through three wickets to the stake, and thence down again till the intricate middle wicket stopped our course.
He is probably a champion player who will walk through all the wickets as a matter of course.
So at night we attach a candle to each of the wickets and also use one at each corner of the grounds.
One after another the wickets went down, and the batsmen returned from the field "with mournful steps and slow.
Dan Billings appeared as comfortable at the wickets as though on the box of his couch, and smote the bowling all round the ground with impartiality.
Then the score mounted with alarming steadiness, and the wickets fell all too slowly for the home team.
The remaining Cunjee wickets went as chaff before the wind, and the innings closed for 119.
Six wickets were down, and Mulgoa was 107 at the end of the over.
Gilligan was at the wickets in all only two and a quarter hours or so.
At sunset the tent was struck, hampers packed, wickets pulled up, boats loaded, and the whole party floated down the river, singing at the tops of their voices.
It was not far to Longmeadow; but the tent was pitched and the wickets down by the time they arrived.
A hard, bumpy pitch meant manywickets for Mr. Tibber.
The order of the innings was this: the ball hit each man five times, and the wickets once.
Although he bowled at the wickets he hit the players first.
He stood bolt upright, his legs together, his feet drawn heel to heel; not at all in the fashion of a modern cricketer, who seeks to guard his wickets with his legs.
If ever I saw a man go to the wickets in a state of "mortal funk," I saw him then.
This time it was fairly straight--by which I mean that it would not have pitched more than a yard from the wickets if Mr. Benyon had allowed it to pitch, which he didn't.
Moreover, of this I am well assured, that nine wicketsfell without an addition being made to the score.
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