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Brearley's extraordinary galvanising of Botham is regarded as one of the greatest feats of sporting psychology of all time: Botham recovered from personal ridicule following his winless captaincy record and his nosedive in form ( he had made a pair in the second Test at Lord's ) to take a first-innings 6 for 95 and score 50 and his famous 149 not out in the third Test at Headingley, bowl a spell of 5 wickets for 1 run in the fourth Test at Edgbaston, score 118 from 102 balls in the fifth Test at Old Trafford, and take a 10-wicket match haul ( 6 for 125 and 4 for 128 ) in the sixth Test at the Oval.
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He didn't nominate a skipper but one might confidently assume, that amongst such august company, it would have been Mike Brearley's principal role in the side.
Brearley's and from
Reduced to chasing 159, England proceeded slowly, with Brearley's 44 coming from 147 balls, and they reached the target at 47. 1 overs.
Following Brearley's retirement and Ian Botham's short term tenure, Fletcher re-appeared after four years away from the national team to captain the side to India in 1981 / 2.
Brearley's and record
Brearley's record in Test cricket as a batsman was mediocre ( he averaged 22. 88 in 39 Test innings, without a Test century ), but he was an outstanding captain.
Brearley's and second
In his second autobiography, Fred Titmus, a senior county colleague, poured scorn on Brearley's reputed man-management skills.
Brearley's and at
Under Brearley's leadership, England went on to win the next two matches before a drawn final match at The Oval.
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Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 – 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 – 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 – 79.
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However, he was replaced upon Brearley's return.
extraordinary and is
It is extraordinary that a people as proud and warlike as Southerners should have been as docile as they have.
But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.
Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.
`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is a fantasy with extraordinary power to disturb the reader -- but we do not know why.
Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.
Perhaps this is not so extraordinary after all.
Under the new rules, testimony is taken orally in open court in all cases except those of an extraordinary character.
You still have your paper hat and you're wearing it, but then, it is an extraordinary paper hat and, in addition to anything else you may be, you are also the sculptor who created that most peculiar dame out in the back yard.
The White House is taking extraordinary steps to check the rapid growth of juvenile delinquency in the United States.
He added `` I think that sometimes in this country we are not aware as we should be of the extraordinary work that is being done in this field ''.
Displaying his knowledge of music, the New England-born President remarked that `` probably the best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans -- and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across the United States.
There is an extraordinary sense of presence in all of these recordings, apparently obtained at least in part by emphasizing the middle and high frequencies.
Thus, a Rabbi, a Catholic priest, and an agnostic might agree that, in this particular case, the best approach is to withhold extraordinary medical care, while disagreeing on the reasons that support their individual positions.
) In the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite and in the Anglican Communion, All Souls Day is instead transferred, whenever 2 November falls on a Sunday, to the next day, 3 November.
Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.
In ' pataphysics, every event in the universe is accepted as an extraordinary event.
The Arrhenius definition of acid – base reactions is a development of the hydrogen theory of acids, devised by Svante Arrhenius, which was used to provide a modern definition of acids and bases that followed from his work with Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald in establishing the presence of ions in aqueous solution in 1884, and led to Arrhenius receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 for " recognition of the extraordinary services ... rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation ".
Throwing a no-hitter is rare and considered an extraordinary accomplishment for a pitcher or pitching staff.
In practice, " extraordinary " circumstance have included disagreeing with Episcopalian views of the episcopate, and as a result, ELCA pastors ordained by other pastors are not permitted to be deployed to Episcopal Churches ( they can, however, serve in Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist Church, Reformed Church in America, and Moravian Church congregations, as the ELCA is in full communion with these denominations ).
The net is set with jewels which have the extraordinary property that they reflect all of the other jewels.
His 1852 account records " in ... Lake Moodewarri Lake Modewarre as well as in most of the others inland ... is a ... very extraordinary amphibious animal, which the natives call Bunyip.
" In the foregoing part of this chapter I have endeavoured to show, even upon the principles of the commercial system, how unnecessary it is to lay extraordinary restraints upon the importation of goods from those countries with which the balance of trade is supposed to be disadvantageous.
he added: Closely examined, painstakingly studied, she is easily the most interesting person on the planet, and in several ways as easily the most extraordinary woman that was ever born upon it.
extraordinary and regarded
" Though overshadowed by Mary Cassatt and relatively unknown to museum-goers today, Beaux's craftsmanship and extraordinary output were highly regarded in her time.
So highly regarded was the film that France, which restricted the number of theatres in which undubbed American films could play, granted it a special waiver because of its " extraordinary artistic merit ".
Charles Stewart Parnell possessed the remarkable attribute of charisma, was an enigmatic personality, politically gifted and is regarded as one of the most extraordinary figures in Irish and British politics.
The speech was widely regarded as extraordinary, with Britain's Daily Mail newspaper commenting that " The astonishing attack was the first time that Ireland's Parliament has publicly castigated the Vatican instead of local church leaders during the country's 17 years of paedophile-priest scandals.
This was all the more extraordinary because the Papacy still had no formal contact with the Italian secular state, which it regarded as a mere usurper ( see Unification of Italy ).
King Mindon himself got away in an extraordinary manner, which the Burmese regarded as a sign of his hpon ( a sum of past good deeds that affect one's present life ).
The Palace is regarded as an extraordinary example of naïve art architecture.
Boehm's key system, with minor variations, continues to be regarded as the most effective system of any modern woodwind, allowing trained players to perform with facility in all keys and with extraordinary velocity and brilliance.
However, certain teachings on grace and justification from the Council of Trent, currently regarded as infallible but only de fide tenenda due to disagreement about whether they are explicitly contained in the deposit of faith or merely logically implied, could someday advance to de fide credenda status either through extraordinary definition or through the consensus of the universal magisterium.
In Hasidic circles, a rebbe is often regarded as having extraordinary spiritual powers and is sought for personal advice in all pursuits of life by his followers.
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