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And then there's bowling: the strain on spin bowlers' fingers and shoulders can turn them into lifelong carpal-tunnel cases by age 30, while the strain on a fast bowler's body—with up to seven times his body weight transferred through his front foot during the delivery stride—reflects the unnaturalness of the bowling action.

Injuries Hamper Cricket's World Stage Richard Lord 2011

And after he was brilliantly run out by Marcus Trescothick's direct hit at the bowler's end from backward point Read took over to see his side to the brink of victory, with a slice of luck in the penultimate over when he was dropped by George Dockrell at long-off off Steve Kirby.

Somerset 156-6; Nottinghamshire 144-7 | Clydesdale Bank 40 match report 2011

These days we seem to schedule to hold most of our Tests on building sites and, at Edgbaston this summer, a crane swung steel girders behind the bowler's arm while everybody pretended that everything was OK.

What now for Indian cricket in the post-Lalit Modi era? David Hopps 2010

The partnership reached 200 when Petersen drove Prasad inches past the bowler's end stumps for a superb boundary but the opener fell soon after when a loose shot outside off stump was well caught by a diving Tillakaratne Dilshan at extra cover.

Jimmy Adams 'can't wait to get started' as Kent's new head coach 2012

The 18-year-old fast bowler's youth appears to have favoured him when he received the minimum tariff for the offence: a five-year ban.

ICC tribunal bans Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt for 10 years 2011

He had been unhappy about the fast bowler's late arrival from South Africa, where he had been part of the Chennai Super Kings 'Champions League-winning side, and when he didn't emerge after lunch, the burden was squarely on the shoulders of Ben Hilfenhaus and Mitchell Johnson.

VVS Laxman shows special side again as India edge past Australia Dileep Premachandran in Mohali 2010

But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman.

From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating 2011

He wasn't out – at least until a Yorkshire fielder, seeing that he had left his ground, took the opportunity to run him out at the bowler's end.

Only José Mourinho can replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United | Richard Williams 2011

If the dismissal of Roland-Jones, inside edging a wide half-volley on to his stumps, was fortunate from Middlebrook's point of view, the wicket of the left-handed Rogers, snicking a delivery that turned sharply away from him out of the bowler's footmarks, would have given pleasure to finger spinners everywhere.

Dawid Malan gives Northants the runaround as Middlesex get upper hand 2011

Smelling the leather is usually a bowler's threat but Azhar turned the tables, sniffing out the danger to kill the spin when Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar were at their most threatening, then exploiting his supple wrists to whip them through midwicket when they erred in line.

Pakistan's Azhar joins Barnacle and Boycott as new kid with the block | Rob Bagchi 2012