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pace bowler
noun
cricket a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
Example Sentences
Pace bowler Lauren Bell took 3-28 and spinner Charlie Dean bowled a miserly spell of 2-12 from her four overs.
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.
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.
With his height and skid, they may be more similarities with former England pace bowler Steven Finn.
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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