But spinners Malik (3-34) and Shahid Afridi (2-33) bowled tightly to limit the tourists to 243-7 on a flat pitch.

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The Rose Bowl wicket had provided Lancashire problems on day one, but on an increasingly flat pitch, the visitors managed to move from a precarious position at the start of play to preserve their status as the only unbeaten team in the County Championship.

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Cartwright made his Test debut in the fourth Test against Australia in 1964, taking 2 for 118 on a pancake flat Old Trafford pitch.

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The main redesign was to the roof of the main buildings, changing them from a flat roof to a split pitch roof.

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Such basic realities probably explain why Lee's new pitch has fallen flat.

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As expected, the pitch is very flat and very dry.

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It's quite a tricky pitch and it's not the flat road everyone thinks it is so it's going to be quite interesting to see how it plays against South Africa.

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Surely not long given current trends, which is why its sales pitch for this new pricing plan is falling flat.

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The typical pitch of a vuvuzela is said to be B flat below middle C.

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