While Krall might not be the most supple swinger the jazz world has ever known, she instead has a tendency to place her notes before the beat like Sinatra sometimes did though certainly not with the same throwaway playfulness that made Frank's approach to song sound effortless and casual, though deceptively so.

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On a pitch offering plenty of encouragement for the seamers Pattinson drew an edge from Dawson with an away-swinger to leave the game finely balanced.

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Essex lost their first wicket in the third over when Varun Chopra edged a Matthew Nicholson out-swinger but Pettini and the in-form Bopara took advantage of some wayward bowling to seize control.

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Key (25) was snared by an in-swinger, and Geraint Jones was trapped on the crease by another darting in-ducker next ball.

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Students, protected with a harness and safety net, swing on a trapeze bar from an elevated platform, with the ultimate goal of letting go and being caught by another swinger.

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Brett Lee made early inroads into the Kenyan batting line-up with the wicket of Maurice Ouma, who was caught behind off a textbook away-swinger.

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Bresnan is more of a traditional swinger than Yorkshire team-mate Ajmal Shahzad or Chris Tremlett, which works in his favour, although the Waca is traditionally the fastest and bounciest pitch in Australia, which will suit the bowling styles of the other two seamers.

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