medium-pace

A medium-pace all-rounder, Cusack went to Ireland to join his brother and to play a season of club cricket in 2005 – he had an Irish passport.

Ireland's 11 heroes who beat England at the World Cup 2011

The only recent threat to this consensus arrived, pre-election, in the shape of Nick Clegg, confessing his passion for the fine medium-pace bowler and author, Samuel Beckett.

Why do we sneer at Sarko for trying to improve himself? | Catherine Bennett 2011

Mashed potato – the medium-pace seamer of the culinary world.

Let's drink to the dobbers – cricket's decaf bowlers | Harry Pearson 2011

Once at a match in Scarborough several decades back a series of yelping appeals from Yorkshire medium-pace prodigy Graham Stevenson the thinking man's Darren Gough so incensed one grizzled spectator that he rose groggily to his feet and yelled: Will you shut up, young fella?

Sheepskin-wearing seating bores get my goat | Harry Pearson 2011

Because Reece is the son of Don Topley, and therefore – despite being 6ft 7in, left-handed and reportedly a bit nippy – has the DNA of just the sort of medium-pace, doing-a-bit-off-the-seam fans of traditional English cricket are always on the lookout for.

Let's drink to the dobbers – cricket's decaf bowlers | Harry Pearson 2011

However, no-one has ever set up a school for bowlers who fling medium-pace deliveries.

The Rise of the Slower Guy Richard Lord 2011

One has only to bring to mind the great medium-pace bowlers of the past, and look for their class now, to realize the change, gradual though it has been, that has come over the game.

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In the matter of spin on this class of wicket I might instance the bowling of [Bill] Howell, one of the greatest of Australian medium-pace spin bowlers.

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I question, however, whether on the wickets as now prepared it would be possible for a medium-pace bowler to get in on our wickets as Howell did, even at a later stage of play.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

He was aware, though, that another fast bowling giant swing bowlers are not just medium-pace Malcolm Marshall, who could be wicked as England found out at Old Trafford in 1988, achieved his variation with just a shift of the supporting thumb.

Praveen Kumar's bowling secrets will be deciphered in time | Mike Selvey 2011