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Left with just four overs to bat out before the close, Vinayak Mane reached six not out and Wasim Jaffer made a single.
He only hit .202 in Double A, striking out about one at bat out in four, while playing (to be kind) a less-than-average outfield.
"The tribunal found that the charge that Mr Butt agreed to bat out a maiden over in the Oval Test match was dismissed, " added Beloff.
Some were surprised to read that after a pro basketball player swatted a bat out of the air, he had to have rabies vaccinations.
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Claimants came on like a bat out of hell with all sorts of aggressive tactics naming everyone in sight, seeking a regulatory referral, etc.
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There could be no relaxation, though, for a team who had failed to bat out the final day in Sydney at the start of the year.
Needing to bat out the day to avoid an innings defeat, Northants were staring defeat in the face when Greg Smith (4-47) helped reduce them to 194-8.
The next ball, Ian Bell tried to get his bat out of the way of a ball that lifted and let him, and wicket-keeper McCullum took a fine catch.
On one occasion, Chamara Kapugedara, who was eventually put out of his misery when driving Broad to mid-off, threw his bat out of his hands all the way to square-leg umpire Aleem Dar.
The onus was now on Bopara to bat out the rest out of the innings, but after facing 42 balls for 23 runs he carelessly hit a thigh-high full toss straight to deep square-leg.
The movie jumps ahead in short, spiky scenes, punctuated by beautifully edited montages of digitized photographs and newspaper articles, and by Mara, head down in the wind, tearing through Sweden on a motorcycle like well, like a bat out of hell.
England needed to bat out the final day of the second Test at Taunton to secure a draw, but seamer Jhulan Goswami's second five-wicket haul of the game left India with a target of only 98 and they duly knocked off the runs.
But Kevin Pietersen loves the big occasion and was visibly bristling as he rushed out to bat from the dug-out.
But when Key was bowled by Steve Kirby (2-54), Division Two champions Kent slumped to 265 all out, Northeast carrying his bat to make 128 not out.
Curtis Granderson broke his arm in his first exhibition at-bat and is out until May.
He did so with a maple bat--once thought too heavy for play--made by a Canadian upstart named Sam Holman , a former stagehand who founded the Original Maple Bat Co. out of his garage near Ottawa.
Hopefully we'll get through that and then set our stall out to bat the day.
Police killed him as guests at the bat mitzvah pushed him out into the street while he was firing his weapon.
Matt Windows carried his bat for 65 not out but could not save them from the 10th defeat of a disappointing summer.
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Then, he said, he picked up a cricket bat, smashing panels out of the door before finding a key and unlocking it.
Australia captain Michael Clarke was booed as he walked out to bat but went on to make his first international fifty since the second Ashes Test in December.
But when Tendulkar walks out to bat the differences dissipate.
Arnold was soon into his stride with the bat, having missed out in Sri Lanka's first innings, and Atapattu matched his boundary tally as they encountered few difficulties against the Rest attack.
The breakthrough was welcome but on such an arduous day England would not have relished the sight of the limpet-like Shivnarine Chanderpaul walking out to bat, a man with a Test average of 100 in the last two years.
The home side offered greater resistance when they came out to bat for a second time, with Michael Carberry and Brown sharing a stand of 63 before Brown, on 30, hooked a ball from Chris Jordan to Matt Nicholson at long-leg.
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"As soon as he came out I ran straight to the middle of the wicket to say to him that I thought it was a very gutsy and very good effort for him to come out and bat, and do the best that he possibly could for his team, " said Ponting.
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The problems are clear right off the bat, as Browder points out.
While Gough seemed happy to lash out with the bat and ride his luck, Caddick played a number of distinguished shots against Adams and Lance Klusener.
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