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Examples
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Air-cricket is instinctive: I have a friend who finds himself automatically playing a perfect, straight-bat air-defensive on entering any crowded room.
Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot Barney Ronay 2010
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But by 1996 it was time to abandon the straight-bat approach we had once been taught.
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Asked if FIFA were embarrassed by becoming a laughing stock, Maingot was forced to straight-bat the question.
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Asked if FIFA were embarrassed by becoming a laughing stock, Maingot was forced to straight-bat the question.
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Trott used the crease and advanced out of his ground to try to negate Aamer's swing under initial heavy cloud cover in an innings which was to be peppered with his trademark, straight-bat clips to leg off the back foot.
icNewcastle 2010
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Between them though, they took Peter Siddle apart, combining straight-bat flails with tennis-forehand smears.
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Between them though, they took Peter Siddle apart, combining straight-bat flails with tennis-forehand smears.
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Between them, they took Peter Siddle apart, combining straight-bat flails with tennis-forehand smears.
unknown title 2009
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