noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
straw/cowboy/bowler etc hat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fast
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Three needed to take the lead: young fast bowler Royden Hayes, till then victimless, skittled Priest.
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If Glenn McGrath, arguably currently the world's finest fast bowler , drops a short one, cut or hook him.
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The man Kelly was more a fast bowler than a darts player.
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He's our fast bowler , you know - took seven of your wickets last year.
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I am already one down to Imran, having declared that Waqar did not have the action of a genuine fast bowler .
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Again, their fast bowlers put in decisive performances.
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Next to pull out was Surrey fast bowler Martin Bicknell, who dislocated his shoulder in training.
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If they are really fast , the bowler may have a chance to hit the wicket before the batter returns.
good
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And he is a marginally better bowler than Hick even if he's still seeking his first Test wicket.
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Don't worry if you fall a bit short of the target, even the best bowlers find this a challenge!!
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Their hopes could rest on the performance of the country's best bowler: Courtney Walsh.
great
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Aqib Javed, a vastly improved bowler in the last year, was perfect as a back-up to the two great bowlers.
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All this proves conclusively that Waqar and Akram are genuinely great and exceptional bowlers .
quick
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Andrew Evans is ruled out along with quick bowler Robert Jones.
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Promising quick bowler Martin Howie returns and Paul Johnson also earns a recall.
slow
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In any case, let's adjust the mundane balance of recent decades and start with the slow bowlers .
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Another slow bowler , though one with infinitely more experience, is Worcestershire's Richard Illingworth.
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Outright batsmen joined the queue, and the supposedly slow bowlers were marking out what looked like suspiciously long run-ups.
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Yorkshire cricket has been graced with world-class slow bowlers .
top
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Gloucestershire's top bowler makes another comeback.
young
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Three needed to take the lead: young fast bowler Royden Hayes, till then victimless, skittled Priest.
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McClure played every shot in the book over the two days, and is quickly maturing into Ireland's finest young bowler .
■ NOUN
hat
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I like classic hats - this baseball cap, for instance, or a bowler hat.
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He wore a trim bowler hat and an overcoat.
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There were men in frock coats and bowler hats .
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He found Woodruffe with a tall, one-armed man in a raincoat and a bowler hat .
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His bowler hat is pushed way back on his head; his hands are thrust into his jacket.
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It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath.
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I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat .
pace
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The pace bowlers capitalised during the abbreviated first day, even if the close catchers didn't.
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Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them.
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Bob Woolmer, the county's director of coaching, claims the pace bowler was used unnecessarily in the World Cup.
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Kent had expressed interest in the pace bowler .
spin
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The visitors made 91-9 and Newtown spin bowler Keith Harding took 7 wickets for 41.
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A nimble slip fielder and occasional spin bowler , he played for Suffolk in 1938 and 1939 after leaving Hampshire.
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Throughout the 1930s he emerged as one of the classic left-hand spin bowlers of all time.
strike
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Graham Dilley had rather supplanted him as main strike bowler , and Chris Old was a Headingley type of bowler.
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Scarborough festival when they omitted their leading strike bowlers .
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Fellow strike bowler Donald was rested yesterday.
■ VERB
take
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Bob Matthews was the pick of the Talybont bowlers taking 1-12 while John Wheeler grabbed 2-47.
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Gloucester bowler Davies took five for eighty four.
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The visitors made 91-9 and Newtown spin bowler Keith Harding took 7 wickets for 41.
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No bowler may ever again take 200 wickets.
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McDermott finished with 4-66, while fellow fast bowler Merv Hughes took 3-51.
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Read in studio Cricket ... Gloucestershire fast bowler Courtney Walsh has taken his fiftieth wicket of the season.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a bowler at Middlesex, Tuffers has a great tradition to live up to.
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Brown would be the brave choice; he's now reckoned to be the more penetrating bowler .
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Can it really be only 18 months ago that the Surrey opening bowler was dispatching Martin Crowe in successive one-day internationals?
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I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat.
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In any case, let's adjust the mundane balance of recent decades and start with the slow bowlers.
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Three needed to take the lead: young fast bowler Royden Hayes, till then victimless, skittled Priest.
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Yet the bowlers defended well, and only Richardson mastered them so that the closing overs were tense.