The Pakistani side has long specialised in spin bowlers—over the past six years, the country's three leading wicket-takers have all been spin bowlers—and secondarily in fast bowlers who can generate reverse swing.
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These patterns are so important that recreational and professional bowlers bowl on vastly different patterns — the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) even classifies the patterns it uses in tournaments.
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The "average" for these bowlers—that is, the number of runs conceded per wicket taken—ballooned from 220 to 42, while the same figure for fast bowlers remained at roughly 31.
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Repeatedly hurling the ball can fatigue and eventually injure fast bowlers.
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The team needed at least two fast bowlers to win abroad.
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It's the dream of bowlers around the world: the perfect game.
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Bowlers use the ball's tendency to swing in air to bamboozle batsman.
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England currently have seven bowlers that good, up from six in 1003.
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Tareq and Ashekin are the pace bowlers, the equivalent of fastball pitchers.
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Lori Myers and Elizabeth Fink are two of the team's star bowlers.
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There were wrestlers from Pennsylvania, bowlers from Illinois and skiers from Utah.
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The receiving and running back corps is hardly filled with Pro Bowlers.
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WHEN INDIA'S explosive batsmen face Pakistan's scorching bowlers, cricket fever grips both nations.
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Even more worrying for English fans is a dearth of top-notch bowlers.
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He gave Indian cricket the self-belief that they could play fast bowlers.
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The people in Mr. Smith's photographs carry umbrellas and wear hats, often bowlers.
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Captains would only turn reluctantly to their slow bowlers to give the fast bowlers a rest, especially while waiting for a shiny new ball, which is granted every 80 overs and helps quicker deliveries with its extra bounce and swing.
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Visiting bowlers are not used to it because they don't see it anywhere else.
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But these patterns aren't just for the pros — they're relevant to recreational bowlers as well.
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The side boasts a formidable array of bowlers, including Rashid Khan, a brilliant leg-spinner.
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Pressler has been the reporter for all FOX Sports Professional Bowlers Association events since 2010.
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These are far less intimidating than the 90mph missiles that fast bowlers hurl at head height.
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NFL: Trench warrior J.J. Watt has the strongest social presence (~8.8 million followers) among Pro-Bowlers.
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In 793, Paul founded L.A.X., a Los Angeles team in the Professional Bowlers Association's PBA League.
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The store overflows with hats, including regional Portuguese styles, bowlers and a wide selection of Panamas.
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If you allow past and present pro bowlers to have their say, the answer is yes.
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Washington's best celebrity bowlers laced up their shoes and hit the lanes Tuesday night for charity.
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The theory goes that since spin bowlers take around 20% of dismissals by hitting the batsman "leg before wicket" (LBW), compared with 17% for quick bowlers, DRS must tilt the game in their favour, since around three-quarters of reviews are for this type of decision.
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Mr Stokes, Mark Wood and Liam Plunkett, three seam bowlers, conceded fewer runs than they normally do.
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Lesson 3: There are batters, fielders and bowlers Again, this does NOT make cricket similar to baseball.
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Moreover, the team's bowlers have tailored their games since moving in to take full advantage of them.
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Williamson denied New Zealand were too reliant on him to give their bowlers a decent, defendable total.
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Like many bowlers of his era, Straub taught himself, learning at first in his boyhood home here.
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That's how often professional bowlers manage to convert the 7-10 split—about once every 145 attempts.
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Injuries to fast bowlers Mohammed Shami and Mohit Sharma have blunted India's attack for the five-match series and on the eve of the first contest, Dhoni spoke of the need for someone to step up to the mark if one of his bowlers had an off day.
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Bowlers must bamboozle these aggressive hitters instead of probing at a batsman's defence for hours at a time.
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Imagine the raw skill of Pakistan's pace bowlers coupled with the beguiling drift and turn of Bangladesh's spinners?
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This is, technically, a competitive league, but the bowlers here aren't worried about the week-to-week standings.
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He's won back-to-back Junior Gold titles, placing him in the upper echelon of American junior bowlers.
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Helpless T riders lined up like Dust Bowlers in bread lines to board buses instead of their usual trains.
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None of them were "big bowlers," but the Wednesday night games were a good time to relax with friends.
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Near the entrance sits a large display of unisex hats, like bowlers and pageboy caps, from brands like Kangol.
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India's bowlers blitzed through New Zealand, limiting them to only 126 runs, a total India seemed sure to surpass.
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That percentage is one of the biggest things separating elite athletes like Malott from birthday-party bowlers like myself.
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Bowlers call the second strategy going for count, and they typically opt for it when they encounter difficult spares.
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His performance was far superior to the historical track record of the other English bowlers who might have appeared instead.
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Unlike fast bowlers, who usually occupy three or four berths in the starting 11, spinners generally compete for one spot.
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But the general idea is the bowlers bowl to the batter, who tries to bat it into the great beyond.
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One week, the Jets look like a lineup of Pro Bowlers — namely in their Monday-night season opener in Detroit.
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He looked to be on his way to another tenacious top-order innings, and to frustrating England's bowlers once again.
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The ball boys and girls whip balls with a knee-bending, underarm motion, like bowlers or players of Skee-Ball.
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And during an early loss to India, one of Pakistan's fast bowlers was injured and ruled out of the competition.
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When he finished running the numbers, he found another spare that elite bowlers convert just 0.3 percent of the time.
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Since joining the NBA, Paul has been able to meet who he calls "great" bowlers like Norm Duke and Pete Weber.
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I interviewed the great Chris Schenkel, the gentle voice of the Pro Bowlers Tour — at a bowling alley on Long Island.
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Among the most notorious spares is the 7-22015 split, which seasoned bowlers talk about with a kind of battered reverence.
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Men's hats are represented in this show as well, such as bowlers like the one in Degas's "Portrait of Zacharian" (1885).
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His team has lost both home and away series to Australia in the last few months, despite several injuries to Australian bowlers.
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In 56% of ODIs between 2015 and 2019, the surface offered more assistance to bowlers in the first innings than the second.
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England have enough capable sloggers in the team, including several bowlers, to get away with this perilous strategy most of the time.
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Chicago's defense, which led the NFL in points allowed last season and returned four Pro Bowlers, dominated the start of the game.
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The visitors' first innings had been borderline disastrous, with England's bowlers tearing through their batting order and leaving them 20023 runs behind.
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Its sensors are baked into cricket balls and bat handles to track very specific types of data that batsmen and bowlers generate.
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For those of you who are not regular bowlers, those scores are written on the scorecard as the symbols /, X and XXX.
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In serious competition, bowlers will face numerous different patterns, each of which affects the ball differently as it travels down the lane.
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The Pro Bowlers Eric Berry and Marcus Peters led a secondary that ranked fourth in the league in net yards per pass allowed.
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Between 22008 and 173, the five-year average for the share of Test wickets taken by slow bowlers fell from 217% to 234%.
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On average, professional bowlers manage to convert the 7-10 split just 0.7 percent of the time, or about once every 145 attempts.
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The left-arm wristspinner sits at seventh in the bowlers' rankings in one-day internationals, one spot ahead of spin-bowling colleague Yuzvendra Chahal.
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Do you think Indian team went back to 'saving-the-test-first' mode or is it that India didn't have enough match-winning bowlers?
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Wolfe is part of the local Club 50 bowlers group for senior citizens, who get together every Wednesday for an evening at the alley.
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In this year's Women's World Twenty20 cricket competition, Leigh Kasperek, who played for Scotland before switching to New Zealand, was among the leading bowlers.
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Moreover, Reese's draft record was among the worst in the N.F.L. Only six players he drafted in his 11 years have become Pro Bowlers.
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SeeHow, another India-based startup, builds and embeds sensors in bats and balls to track specific types of data that batsmen and bowlers generate.
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Most of the bowlers at Keystone mention the PBA or PWBA Tour as a longterm goal, and the road there runs through college bowling.
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But across the three variants of the game, they account for half of the bowlers ranked in the top ten by the International Cricket Council.
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If she wants to bowl, she must drive two hours to an alley in Connecticut, where bowlers sometimes ask her for shared selfies and autographs.
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He said a fight broke out within a group of about 10 men and women behind their lane, near the desk where bowlers check in.
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"You might be the best, or among the best, but you come here, with so many accomplished bowlers, it's a real ego check," Morris said.
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Being a right-hander, Buttler can negotiate Ashwin's off-spin better than Ballance, who struggled to read Bangladesh off-spinners and left-arm spin bowlers.
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"For some of those elderly men bowlers who are widowers or divorced, the bowls club are the reason they get up in the morning," Mrs.
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Performance-enhancing drugs also could be appealing to bowlers, just as they were to some baseball pitchers seeking to match the increasing strength of batters.
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" Waqar Younis, coach of the team until April 2016 and one of the greatest bowlers in Pakistan history, proclaimed "a proud moment for the whole nation.
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Michael Clarke, the captain, left, along with veteran pace bowlers Ryan Harris and Mitchell Johnson, wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, opening batsman Chris Rogers and all-rounder Shane Watson.
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"Bowl-outs", when bowlers try to hit the stumps at the other end of the pitch, were introduced to decide shorter forms of the game in 1991.
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Looking at "regular" bowlers and batsmen (those who deliver or face at least 100 balls), the share of the action produced by Test veterans has hardly budged.
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In such a system, the world's biggest hitters and most miserly bowlers might only face each other in short-form contests a handful of times a decade.
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Coach Mike Hesson felt his bowlers had the worst of the pitch and conditions but also lamented their failure to get reverse swing with the older ball.
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Captains have become far more willing to use such bowlers offensively, at times even electing to open with them and put pressure on the top-order batsmen.
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But in fact, the system overturns the umpire's call in favour of the batsman 34% of the time, compared to just 20% of the time for bowlers.
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Because every ball counts, a premium is placed on surprise and unpredictability; spinners with multiple variations have often been more successful than out-and-out fast bowlers.
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Crowe used innovative tactics, such as opening the bowling with off-spinner Dipak Patel, while constantly rotating his bowlers and changing fields to put pressure on batsmen.
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Bowlers have an especially high risk of injury, so drugs that increase endurance could help them bowl more, and therefore play a fuller part in T20 leagues.
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Hearing that day retold 70 years later, as the captain carved England's bowlers apart before a roaring Melbourne crowd, is like listening to the gospel first-hand.
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In that match, they were the four selected bowlers, and they all played a significant hand in the Proteas squaring the four-match series at one apiece.
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But sport patterns, used it competition play, can vary significantly, and are often shorter and more evenly-distributed, meaning bowlers have a much smaller margin for error.
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In only one of the past five seasons in England have pitches offered more assistance to ODI bowlers (judging by a ball's change in trajectory after it bounces).
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In the short formats, it seems possible that captains could end up giving spinners the majority of overs, since they tend to be more economical than quick bowlers.
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At the end of the day, to win abroad, on those wickets in England, Australia, West Indies and South Africa, you needed fast bowlers to get you wickets.
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And on so many occasions he's taken catches off Kumble and Harbhajan, which is so much more difficult than taking catches off fast bowlers in a slip cordon.
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To keep things simple, we've whittled down a selection of the best into six categories: Openers, middle order batsmen, wicketkeepers, all-rounders, fast bowlers, and of course, spinners.
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India's much-maligned bowlers did well to reduce Australia to 117-4 in the 22nd over before Warner and Marsh combined to add 118 runs in 17.3 overs.
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Bowlers who have scored a perfect 300 have their names immortalized on a banner — The Kid, Roach, Benny — and get a Van Nest jacket courtesy of Mr. Farago.
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Impatient bowlers "press the reset button like a doorbell on Halloween — they push and push," said Mr. Farago walking down the lanes and behind the pin-setting machines.
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He then tallied the number of lefties among each sport's top 100 players, or pitchers and bowlers in the case of baseball and cricket, from 2009 to 2014.
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While none of the bowlers have made quite such an impact, New Zealand's retiring captain Brendon McCullum sees them as the main reason Australia could stay at the top.
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"I know with my own kids, basketball is one of many things in their lives — but for the bowlers it is the [only] thing in their lives," she said.
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Today, spinners concede 9% fewer runs per over than pace bowlers in ODIs and 11% fewer in T20s, thanks to trickery not just in lateral movement but also speed.
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It also turns out that for professional bowlers, there are eight different ways to distribute oil upon the lanes, each influencing how the ball might roll toward the pins.
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Today, Pakistan's attack includes two prolific left-arm pace bowlers, Wahab Riaz and Mr Amir, and Yasir Shah, a brilliant legspinner who has taken 4443 wickets in 2444 matches.
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New Zealand's two young spinners, Ish Sodhi and Mitchell Santner, have been the most effective bowlers in any team and were the leading wicket-takers in the pool stage.
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In the 1930s, Eddie Gilbert was considered one of the world's fastest bowlers, but he had to obtain written permission merely to travel outside his Indigenous settlement in Queensland.
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It's a pretentious farce, set to "Bolero," in which people in trench coats and bowlers push around a wall on wheels, followed by an overwrought duet about intimacy issues.
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They've got dating sites for almost any niche you could imagine—runners, marijuana enthusiasts, fishermen, bowlers, short people, geeks, people who love guns, and those who serve them (first responders).
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Not surprisingly, he has quickly amassed an adoring fanbase, including several of KT Lanes' special needs bowlers, who like to bring Blake treats when they stop by for a game.
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In baseball (and cricket), knuckleballs are the result of pitchers (or bowlers) holding the ball between the knuckles and using just the fingertips to avoid putting a spin on it.
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At its best, batsmen hit fours and sixes at will, bowlers deceive them with swing and spin, and the value of each run means that fielding is frequently jaw-dropping.
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Yet the depth, and variety, of Pakistan's bowling has proved remarkable: they trounced Australia in 22019 despite four bowlers having just eight Test caps between them going into the series.
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At this stage, there are brief glimpses of what might have been: a gripping detective yarn, with almost as many magnifying glasses and bowlers hats as a Sherlock Holmes adventure.
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Owners mostly gave the cold shoulder to slow bowlers, with South African leg-spinner Imran Tahir, who tops both the one-day and Twenty20 bowling rankings, unsold in the early round.
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Rodney Harrison is FULL OF CRAP when he says he didn't know Colin Kaepernick was mixed race ... so say NFL Pro Bowlers Brendon Ayanbadejo & Robert Smith ... who ain't buying Harrison's excuse.
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Australia's squad this summer includes six bowlers who take wickets in first-class matches for less than 30 runs on average, compared with seven such players on their mighty 2006 roster.
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Australia's bowlers emerged from the break re-energised, however, and James Pattinson got the breakthrough when Bravo's miscued pull sent the ball flying to Usman Khawaja running in from the deep.
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The dreaded Madden Curse has seemingly taken out a ton of Pro Bowlers over the years ... from Vince Young to Mike Vick to Rob Gronkowski, Drew Brees, Adrian Peterson and more.
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Witness the real life, behind the scenes journey with head coach Bruce Arians, President Michael Bidwill, General Manager Steve Keim, and Pro Bowlers Carson Palmer, Larry Fitzgerald, Patrick Peterson, and Tyrann Mathieu.
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Here were tangerine dresses covered in crocheted white flowers, yellow stockings, floppy '70s sun hats and red bowlers and great gowns covered in blush, pink and orange dahlias made from fluttering organza.
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Along the way the series chronicles the on and off-field events in the lives of Arizona players, including Pro Bowlers Palmer, wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, cornerback Patrick Peterson and safety Tyrann Mathieu.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is little evidence that the Decision Review System (DRS)—a video-replay system that has been used in most Test matches since 2008—has disproportionately benefited slow bowlers.
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Along the way the series chronicles the on and off-field events in the lives of Arizona players, including Pro Bowlers Palmer, wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, cornerback Patrick Peterson, and safety Tyrann Mathieu.
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With the field spread out wide, he clobbered Indian bowlers and steered Australia from a shaky 205 for nine to a fighting total of 260 on a pitch that was dry and deteriorating.
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The fast bowlers Trent Boult and Tim Southee were expected to spearhead New Zealand's bowling against India, the host and pretournament favorite, but both were left out as New Zealand opted for spinners.
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The money trickles down to the bowlers, who are afforded the same perks and privileges, including the training table in Memorial Stadium and sport-specific workouts prescribed by the strength and conditioning staff.
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If you see the bowling department, the fast bowlers did a very good job; it was the spinners who could have bowled better if they could have just avoided the easy boundary deliveries.
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After four straight wins to close out the year with a roster spotted with practice squad players where former Pro Bowlers once stood, it's impossible for me to bet against my beloved Eagles.
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Bangladesh were 75-5 in the 12th over and looked to be headed for a mediocre total but Mahmudullah's 33 not out from 13 balls ensured their bowlers had a fighting total to defend.
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Pace bowler Mustafizur Rahman was the pick of the Bangladesh bowlers as he claimed three wickets, including those of Hope and Hetmeyer, while Mohammad Saifuddin also finished with three to restrict the Caribbean side.
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Paceman Jasprit Bumrah and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin were the pick of the Indian bowlers, giving up 13 and 14 runs respectively in their quota of three overs apiece while picking up a wicket each.
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REUTERS - Pakistan named uncapped bowlers Rumman Raees and Mohammad Nawaz in their squad for the World Twenty20 in India while leaving out experienced paceman Umar Gul, the second highest wicket-taker in the shortest format.
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At the start of 2008, the year the IPL began, 54 batsmen and 55 bowlers were ranked in the top 100 for both Test and Twenty20 cricket, according to the International Cricket Council's (ICC) player ratings.
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Stefano Tedeschi told ESPN that Brown — who was still with the Pittsburgh Steelers at the time — rented a mansion and hired a chef to host nearly 50 fellow Pro Bowlers during the last week of January.
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The near-unanimous dream schools for these elite bowlers are Wichita State and McKendree University, a tiny liberal arts school near St. Louis, each of which have revered coaches and attract the premier amateur bowling talent.
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Jaclyn, 14, and Alli, 13, are both exceptional bowlers: Alli claimed the U12 state title in 2016 (among numerous other tournament wins), and her sister has climbed up into the top tens of tournaments as well.
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The bowler trapped him lbw with the next delivery to end a second-wicket stand of 41 with Joe Root, who fell soon after for 85, but the pain was far from over for the Pakistan bowlers.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Umesh Yadav belongs to the rare breed of Indian bowlers who can bowl consistently quick and the 28-year-old is not ready to sacrifice pace to gain more control on his line and length.
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Injuries to fast bowlers Mohammed Shami and Mohit Sharma have taken sting out of the Indian attack and they will be without Suresh Raina's all-round energy after the limited-overs specialist was dropped from the side.
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Starring Jeff Bridges as The Dude, The Big Lebowski is an odd story about three bowlers, a potentially kidnapped wife of a billionaire, and a handful of weird tertiary characters that gets better and better with every viewing.
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Daily Dot politics editor David Covucci compiled some of these tweets, which included one by Posobiec lamenting the replacement of midcentury bowlers and suits with cargo shorts, and another arguing that the offending item is worse than blasphemous.
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In a sport such as cricket, the effect would be even more noticeable: batsmen prefer sunny, dry conditions, which make it tricky for bowlers to make the ball "swing", or move sideways as it travels through the air.
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More takeaways: Three or more selections: The Saints had the second-most Pro Bowlers (7), followed by the Chiefs (6), Eagles (5), Steelers (5), 493ers (4), Cowboys (4), Texans (3), Patriots (3), Bears (3), Vikings (3) and Bucs (3).
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In fact, England's bowlers are so leaky that the ECB has relaxed the eligibility criteria in order for Mr Bayliss to select Jofra Archer, a Barbadian who has a British passport but has only lived in the country for three years.
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Left-handed Dhawan (60), who had scored two, one and 16 not out in his last three outings in the tournament, and Kohli (41 not out) took the attack to the Bangladesh bowlers after Rohit's dismissal in the second over.
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He became a star at Modesto, then moved on to the University of San Francisco, where he played on an undefeated 1951 squad that featured nine future N.F.L. players, including five future Pro Bowlers and three future Hall of Famers.
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Nebraska often vies with the same schools — among them Arkansas State, McKendree, Sam Houston State and Vanderbilt, the only other school from a so-called Power 5 football conference that has a women's varsity team — for the best junior bowlers.
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The defense, with a league-leading five Pro Bowlers — end Michael Bennett, linebacker Bobby Wagner, cornerback Richard Sherman and safeties Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas — may be even better: It ranked first in points allowed, and second in yards allowed per play.
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By creating significant amounts of turbulence, the most skilful bowlers have found that when an old ball deteriorates, they can make the rough side behave in the same way as the original shiny side, and make the ball swing in the opposite direction.
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Temporary substitutions for the likes of Steve Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Flintoff and so on would give England's bowlers a chance to rest up, consult with their coaches and refresh themselves at convenient points, before they returned to the field and resumed their duties.
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But Edison is convinced bowlers will again be household names, the PBA CEO predicting that broadcast rights will one day be in line with other top North American leagues and prize money worthy of a sport eager to be seen as big time.
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The league they use as a practicing ground and home base is overseen by a man named Armando Zavala, a lifelong bowler who has ensured that southern California's best young bowlers have a place to practice on a variety of different oil patterns.
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Longtime bowlers, revelers and area residents, aided by a neighborhood preservation group and local politicians, said Mr. Macklowe's plan for a residential tower some 300 feet high would not fit in with the surrounding neighborhood, which is largely defined by low- to midrise historic structures.
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Stokes was visibly devastated but was cleared of blame by his captain, Eoin Morgan, who said England's total of 155 had been well short of what was needed and that his bowlers had done brilliantly to put England in a position where it could win.
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The signs of progress — equal prize money in tennis Grand Slam events, Danica Patrick leading the Indianapolis 500 on the way to a fourth-place finish, Kelly Kulick and Liz Johnson winning Pro Bowlers Association Tour events, Becky Hammon coaching in the N.B.A. — are everywhere.
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DHARAMSALA, India, March 11 (Reuters) - Indian bowlers face a dilemma over whether to apply saliva to shine the ball against South Africa while England's players have been asked not to sign autographs or take selfies with fans in Sri Lanka following the coronavirus outbreak.
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As Australia claimed a crushing 1463-run victory in the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston Monday, Smith once again moved into the spotlight, and in his own way, with that constant fidgeting and filleting of England's bowlers, gave a timely reminder of his supreme talent.
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"When I was speaking about sharing the load yesterday, I was speaking about when the fast bowlers don't have a very good day then I will have to use the spinners," said Dhoni, who retired from the test arena at the end of 2014.
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Dressed in costly designer labels, kilts and sporrans, suits with short pants, Savile Row tailoring accessorized with bowlers or ebony canes, they parodied the structures of class even as they demonstrated adherence to a way of life few in one of the world's most impoverished countries will ever know.
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There were some slouchy flares, but mostly it was just jackets and dresses, all the way down — and hats (bowlers and paperboy caps with exaggerated crowns), boots (stacked heel, sometimes platform), bags (scrunchy or frame or even dangling on a chain around the neck) and big old costume jewelry.
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To watch any of these bowlers—the ones mentioned or others, like 15-year-old Cameron Criss or 16-year-old Roger Chavez, also competitive at the top levels of their age brackets—is to appreciate the sheer physical skill required to bowl at such a high level.
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On forgiving "house patterns," the kinds of the oil patterns you find at a standard alley, the patterns are long and loaded in the middle, which allows bowlers to miss their targeted spot on the lane but still have the ball break toward the pocket, where it needs to be for a strike.
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The name of the piece, which later became a book so popular that it led to its author being invited to Camp David and interviewed in People magazine, came from the fact that from 1980 to 1993, bowling league participation declined by 40 percent, while the total number of bowlers rose by 10 percent.
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The attempts to update the archival, sun-kissed, Midwestern vision — whether on last year's "Pitch," the Fox TV show about a woman pitching in the majors, or "Million Dollar Arm," the 2014 Disney movie in which Jon Hamm goes to India to convert cricket bowlers into pitchers — are canceled or bomb at the box office.
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Head coach Bruce Arians, President Michael Bidwill and general manager Steve Keim, along with Pro Bowlers Palmer, wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, cornerback Patrick Peterson and safety Tyrann Mathieu "are ready for the challenge of a season that would result in an NFC West title and a trip to the conference championship game," according to Amazon's news release.
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But they are most dangerous with the ball in hand, since the squad contains three of the eight best bowlers at the competition: Jasprit Bumrah, a seamer with an unusual number of tricky variations and the courage to use them, and Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal, two wrist-spinners who move the ball unpredictably off the pitch.
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More specifically, there are eight different official distributions of oil, approved by the United States Bowling Congress, in use with the Professional Bowlers Association, each with its own tough, animal-based name (the PBA Tour Viper, for example.) How much oil there is and where it's distributed has a huge impact on what kind of leniency a shot has.
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While the increase in prize money will be welcomed by bowlers, the PBA has a long way to go before it is on a par with the PGA Tour, which is offering a $7.5 million purse this week at the Farmers Insurance Open, or tennis where the singles champions at the Australian Open will earn $2.85 million.
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In recent times, not only has it had to overcome the banning of two fast bowlers in the corruption scandal (one of those, Mohammad Amir, returned for the recent Test series in England), it also lost Saeed Ajmal, one of the world's leading off-spinners, who proved to have an illegal bowling action after tests by the ICC in 220.
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