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pace bowler

noun

  1. cricket a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Pace bowler Lauren Bell took 3-28 and spinner Charlie Dean bowled a miserly spell of 2-12 from her four overs.

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In the third Test, Bethell made 76 amid a ferocious spell from New Zealand pace bowler Will O'Rourke, coping with the hostility better than Joe Root and Harry Brook.

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If it is slightly disingenuous to trumpet the pace bowler as the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket, external this year - Zimbabwe's four Tests are more than any other team have played - it is more instructive to look at his achievements along the way.

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With his height and skid, they may be more similarities with former England pace bowler Steven Finn.

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Jos Buttler, Jacob Bethell, Jamie Overton, Jofra Archer and Will Jacks are all in a 16-man ODI squad that includes a recall for spinner Tom Hartley and fit-again pace bowler Brydon Carse, but not Liam Livingstone.

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