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Flintoff was desperate to adorn this day with some extravagant strokeplay but he was rendered strokeless by Mitchell Johnson's determination to pin him to the crease with some fast, short-pitched bowling and he flayed, flat-footed and woodenly, at his nineteenth delivery and departed for just seven.
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After their strokeless approach to Ajmal and Rehman last night had cost three wickets for nine runs, England had clearly chosen to attack today.
Evening Standard - Home Tom Collomosse 2012
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Of full length and angled in, it trapped Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India's captain, lbw without him offering a shot, a strokeless respones that encapsulated the utter helplessness he has experienced here in the face of England's dominance.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Of full length and angled in, it trapped Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India's captain, lbw without him offering a shot, a strokeless respones that encapsulated the utter helplessness he has experienced here in the face of England's dominance.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Of full length and angled in, it trapped Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India's captain, lbw without him offering a shot, a strokeless respones that encapsulated the utter helplessness he has experienced here in the face of England's dominance.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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He was clearly having difficulty picking up Broad's fuller deliveries from above the low sight screen and was rendered virtually strokeless.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Botha replaces Tahir, and the hitherto strokeless Taylor plays a gorgeous extra-cover drive for four.
The Guardian World News Rob Smyth 2011
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Once in occupation, though, the two left-handers were largely strokeless against the moving ball.
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He's looked the part today Watson, though he has been all but strokeless since lunch.
The Guardian World News Rob Smyth 2010
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Leaving the ball well but not being entirely strokeless as Shane Watson was, he looked totally organised where others were in discord.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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