drain

Credit too to Garth, and particularly King, who struck three sixes when the jubilation had long since drained from Pakistan.

"I've battled to keep our handmade jewellery boutique alive but grief has drained my strength and I must close our doors," it said.

“It’s just draining your tank and doing everything possible that you can possibly do on every single play for us to achieve success,” Skipper said.

The Japanese concept of kō, or micro-seasons, reads like a fieldworker’s prayer: fish emerge from ice; farmers drain fields; last frost, rice seedlings grow.

Newcastle, currently 15th in the Premier League, missed out on a number of targets during a draining summer window and lost striker Alexander Isak to Liverpool for a British record £125m.