Example sentences of "[num] overs " in BNC.

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1 On the second day , Emburey bowled forty overs for 81 runs and five wickets , but Lloyd , David Murray and Roberts all batted well .
2 The last ten overs of each innings saw over 90 runs scored ; West Indies batted first and had made 151 for four from forty overs when Logie and Dujon , and then Harper , swung the bat .
3 Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs …
4 Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs …
5 The 23-year-old , playing only his fifth Test , finished with a career-best 7-52 from 23.2 overs as the tourists , chasing 359 for victory , were dismissed for 219 despite a maiden Test century by opener Phil Simmons ( 110 ) .
6 Stephen Clark enjoyed his 8.2 overs with a 5–42 return and later became the batting hero .
7 Steve Goldsmith made 202 not out ( 24 fours , 10 sixes ) as Derbyshire II ran up 324 for 1 in 41 overs to defeat Lancashire ( 323 for 4 in 53 overs ) in the Bain Clarkson Trophy limited-overs match at Checkley .
8 Bishop Auckland struck 200 for five declared in 53 overs of their home match against Stockton with David Jackson scoring a fine 81 .
9 Malcolm Gamet 's side totalled 163–6 declared in 43 overs at Hightown .
10 Sri Lanka made 262-6 in 49 overs and New Zealand were all out for 231 with only one ball remaining .
11 Recs declared at 160–8 off 49 overs , thanks mainly to a super innings from Vinny Wood , who made 89 not out which included his own ‘ hat-trick ’ of three successive sixes off Gareth Evans .
12 St Helens Recs reached 160–8 from 49 overs at Birkenhead Park , David Turner taking 5–43 inlcuding a hat-trick .
13 Adrian Jones ( 2–35 ) was the most successful Merioneth bowler , but his side could only manage 125 off 49 overs in reply .
14 Result of one-day 50 overs match in Perth : West Indies 199 ( 49 overs ) , Western Australia 171 ( 45.5 overs ) .
15 Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope .
16 Having put England in , West Indies then bowled poorly and after 30 overs England were happily placed at 131 for 2 .
17 If the same ruling was applied to each session , e.g. 30 overs between lunch and tea , the regularity of enforcing the law would surely lead to a natural increase in over-rates .
18 Australia struggled to score 101-9 in a match reduced to 30 overs per side but hit back to dismiss the West Indies for 87 with three balls to spare .
19 Chasing 169 , Waltham looked good at 109 for 5 off 30 overs with Culleton batting well , but Beal , Foster , Alexander and Copeman bowled Broomfield to victory .
20 And with Speak overcoming a nervous start -he took 33 minutes to get off the mark to hit a string of boundaries , the pair put on 141 in less than 30 overs .
21 West Indies ' winning total was 188 for one , after 44.3 overs .
22 Soon , though , he had to leave the field with a recurrence of his leg injury , and Waqar ( 0 for 99 off 22 overs ) returned perhaps a little earlier than might otherwise have been the case .
23 A duck ( his third in Tests ) and 20 , and no wickets in 22 overs came as a muted farewell , even if all in attendance had Graeme Pollock 's three-hour century to remember the match by .
24 Newtown off-spinner Keith Harding set up his side 's victory over Acton Reynald in Division Two , grabbing 7–41 in 22 overs to restrict the visitors to 91–9 in a game interrupted by rain .
25 Their direction was poor and in the first 12 overs they conceded 12 wides and no-balls , so it was an unexpected bonus when Donald , with the last delivery in his first spell of four overs , had Haynes caught at backward square-leg .
26 Against typically efficient fast bowling , the pressure was too much and the last seven wickets fell in the space of 12 overs .
27 Having made 62 from 12 overs , England lost nine overs to rain and required 175 off 38 overs , a rate of 4.61 .
28 Unfortunately heavy monsoon rain caused our first game to be abandoned against Singapore CC Sunday XI — we were 87 for one off 12 overs !
29 His were about 0-95 in 12 overs as our boys ran amok .
30 BBC cricket correspondent Jon Agnew answered a Leicester SOS to step out of retirement and finished with remarkable figures of 1-31 in 12 overs .
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