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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
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The pundits babble about his strokelessness bringing pressure on himself, but that depends on whether he feels it - I suspect that he doesn't.
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Trott needed more than an hour before he managed his first four, and pushed the boundaries of strokelessness before lunch - despite the exaggerated attacking fields set by Smith, especially to Harris.
Cricket365 | Cricket 2009
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Trott needed more than an hour before he managed his first four and pushed the boundaries of strokelessness before lunch, despite the exaggerated attacking fields set by Smith, especially to Harris.
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Yesterday, England's new-old failings were epitomised by Matt Prior, who was comfortable enough against the seamers (30 off 43 balls against Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel and RP Singh), but an ugly mix of agitation and strokelessness against the spinners (eight off 21 against the two spinning Singhs, Yuvraj and Harbhajan).
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