medium-pacer

Nobody, though, gives the medium-pacer much shelf space.

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

The author even left us with the precise day and detail of his actual theft – a high-summer's holiday afternoon in 1913 in Cheltenham watching Gloucestershire v Warwickshire in the County Championship in which visiting medium-pacer Percy Jeeves took a few wickets.

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

Everyone enjoys watching a really fast bowler, but in this era of more matches, bigger bats, shorter boundaries, more aggressive batsmen and formats that suit them, it might be an idea to get used to appreciating the subtler joys of the medium-pacer, because they're only going to become a bigger part of the game.

The Rise of the Slower Guy Richard Lord 2011

He said how honoured he was to have arranged an audience with the Pope – at which Bill at once leapt in to ask, to the nation's bewilderment: "I take it, señor Pelé, you mean a meeting with the raw-boned and rangy former Derbyshire medium-pacer George Pope?"

Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating 2011

With a medium-pacer's run-up and a bewildering range of flicks and hand contortions at his disposal to spin the ball in various ways, he bamboozled batsmen when he burst onto the international scene, and flummoxed Australia again in the recent T20 series.

Calling All Seamers! This Is Cricket's Bowling Crisis Richard Lord 2011

Kirk Edwards went cheaply but Samuels ground on to 29 from 74 balls, with only two boundaries, before being bowled via his thigh pad to give the medium-pacer Hammad Azam his first international wicket.

Pakistan's Ahmed Shehzad scores century to subdue West Indies 2011

In his command of length, trajectory and variation, for example, left-arm medium-pacer Mohammad Asif of Pakistan—recently banned from the game and jailed for spot-fixing—reminded me of New Zealand's left-arm spinner and former captain Daniel Vettori, with a similar ability to get inside the head of a batsman, except Asif had a much better bowling average.

The Rise of the Slower Guy Richard Lord 2011

At first glance, the recent rise of the medium-pacer looks like one of cricket's more unlikely developments.

The Rise of the Slower Guy Richard Lord 2011

With a medium-pacer's run-up and a bewildering range of flicks and hand contortions at his disposal to spin the ball in various ways, he bamboozled batsmen when he burst onto the international scene, and flummoxed Australia again in the recent T20 series.

Bowling Is Taking a Battering Richard Lord 2011

All their slower bowlers built up the pressure: the medium-pacer Steffan Piolet, who twice had Herschelle Gibbs dropped; the leg-spinner Imran Tahir, who bowled Gibbs, pulling; and the South African Ant Botha, whose slow left-arm brought three for 16 and reduced Yorkshire to strokelessness.

View of Yorkshire fans obscured by clouds after defeat by Warwickshire David Hopps at Headingley 2010