spinner
Example Sentences
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He broke the shackles by hitting spinner Mark Watt for consecutive sixes and finished 63 not out around contributions of 32 from Jacob Bethell and 28 by Sam Curran.
From BBC
Banton then launched Mark Watt for three towering sixes in a ninth over that cost the Scottish spinner 22 runs, the pressure eased and thereafter the result was rarely in doubt.
From Barron's
Bennett played the percentages, content to nullify Australia's spinners, and largely eschewed boundary hitting in favour of accumulation as he looked to establish a solid total.
From BBC
That spinner of children's nightmares and curer of pains in the belly?
From Literature
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Seifert hammered back-to-back sixes off Mohammad Nabi - bringing up his half-century in the process - only to fall a couple of deliveries later to the experienced spinner when he holed out to square leg.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.