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Despite this impairment to his bowling shoulder, his team played with an aggressive strategy leading them to lose only one Test match and no other matches during the tour, honouring his pre-series pledge.
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Despite wearing steel-rimmed spectacles Smith was a heavy run-maker in County cricket and passed 2, 000 runs a season each year from 1957 to 1962, including 3, 245 runs ( 57. 94 ) in 1959, but his fragility against fast bowling meant that he could not hold down a regular place in the Test team.
Despite considerable demolition work, in 1649 the Earl of Arundel repurchased Sheffield castle with the intention of restoring it, however the damage was too great and no restoration work was ever started The castle was soon completely razed ; for a while it was used as an orchard, and then a bowling green, before being built over.
Despite this mixed batting performance, his bowling was at its peak.
Despite his relatively good bowling form, Pakistani coach Waqar Younis insisted that the bowling attack must not become reliant on Akhtar, as he is 35 years of age and fitness troubles continue to affect him.
Despite the result, Hutton saw potential in Frank Tyson's bowling and arranged for Alf Gover, a respected coach who was in Australia as a journalist, to improve and shorten Tyson's run to the wicket.
Despite his leaden appearance, he often advanced down the pitch to spin bowling.
Despite this another great bowling performance from Hassan and Samiullah Shenwari meant that Scotland were skittled for just 82 in their second innings.
Despite his speed, Tait has often been described as " erratic " and is capable of bowling many extras.
Despite this moderately good form, Wessels was outscored by five other Australian players who took advantage of the poor quality Pakistan bowling.
Despite his age ( he turned 40 on tour ) Brown had the most successful series of any England captain in Australia ; Taking 18 wickets ( 21. 61 ) and making 210 runs ( 26. 25 ), third in the batting averages ( behind Len Hutton and Reg Simpson ) and in the bowling averages ( behind Trevor Bailey and Alec Bedser ).
Despite healthy batting and bowling averages for an all-rounder at test level ( 23 and 28 respectively ) Dodemaide only made ten Test appearances.
Despite K. S. Ranjitsinhji scoring a " marvellous " 154 and Tom Richardson " bowling in his finest form " the Australians managed to hold on for a 3 wicket victory.
Despite bowling for hundreds of hours, Baloo later lamented that not once did any of the club members offer to allow him to bat — a role then considered the preserve of the aristocratic classes.
Despite being in the team, Anderson's bowling was used infrequently.
Despite the early loss of Len Hutton, for the second time in the match caught behind off the bowling of Fazal, at 109 / 2 England looked well set on the fourth evening.
Despite his domination of fast, aggressive bowling, Smith suffered from a well-publicised vulnerability to slower bowlers-particularly the leg-spin of Shane Warne.
Despite his success, St Paul's cricket masters did not consider him a reliable cricketer ; he was criticised for taking too many risks when batting and for experimenting with too many different styles while bowling.
Despite bowling 41 overs in the game, he failed to take a wicket ; his maiden Test match wicket came in the following Test, but he took only two wickets in the series.
Despite his success with the bat during the Under-19 World Cup, Victoria continued to use White as a bowling all-rounder, a decision that seemed to be justified in the 2002 – 03 season when White passed 50 just once in his 13 first-class innings and claimed 28 wickets.
Despite his excellent form with the bat, White's bowling was proving to be mostly ineffective.
Despite being heavily built, Ponsford was quick on his feet and renowned as one of the finest ever players of spin bowling.
Despite his 10 wicket hall in the Tied Test his bowling was not of Test standard and his batting average 36. 82 was not enough to keep him in the team by itself when David Boon, Allan Border, Dean Jones and Steve Waugh were occupying the middle order.
Despite and shoulder
Despite a comfortable Australian victory, Warne dislocated his right shoulder while diving to stop a ball.
Despite pitching in pain, Hernández again showed promise in 2002, but his season was hampered by an ongoing injury with his left shoulder.
Despite a season-long battle with tendinitis in his shoulder which caused him to miss 23 regular season games, he finished fifth in AL batting race with. 314 and ranked eighth in on base percentage.
Despite playing the entire season with a torn meniscus in his right knee as well as nagging injuries to his shoulder and quadriceps, he finished the year hitting. 332 with 35 home runs and 117 RBI.
Despite early season shoulder and wrist injuries ( with the latter reportedly caused lifting his wife's suitcase the last week of spring training ) forcing Aguilera to miss 6 weeks early in the season, the veteran battled his way to an 8 – 6 record with a 5. 42 ERA in 19 starts, including a pair of complete games.
Despite this injury, Bradford started in the 2009 Red River Rivalry confident that his shoulder was healed.
Despite the inherent danger in small and large vehicles traveling at high speeds, the freeway is generally considered one of the safest in Melbourne, with minimal height changes and flowing route, ample shoulder space and well maintained safety barriers.
Despite the relatively tight bend and 100 km / h limit, there are few safety barriers on the extremities of the road surface, leaving nothing between the cars and the trees on the road shoulder.
Despite its name, it is primarily composed of pork shoulder meat, according to McDonald's.
Despite taking five of Savage's flying elbow drops, Warrior won the match after hitting the Macho King with three jumping shoulder blocks and forced Savage to retire.
" Despite his early season suspension, and a shoulder injury late in the season which made him miss five games, Hextall played 62 of the 67 games for which he was available during the regular season.
Despite several injury setbacks ( one of which, a badly damaged shoulder, kept him out of the 2003 World Cup ), Joubert continued to develop into a world-class centre.
* Despite the fact it has been shown vampires have no reflection, Spike can be seen many times in a mirror to left of the door, visible just past Giles ' shoulder and in the glass front of the bookshelf next to his chair.
Despite starting all 11 games in 2003 as a sophomore, Croyle suffered a separated shoulder before half time of the fifth game.
Despite and team
Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.
Despite the strong start, the team played poorly in May and June and entered the All Star break at 47 – 48, still leading the NL West.
Despite the acquisitions, the team failed to improve and finished with a record of 82 – 80, in second place behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Despite its label as an England side, the team which toured South Africa in 1891 contained several Scots.
Despite a strong lineup anchored by the potent Lajoie and Shoeless Joe Jackson, poor pitching kept the team below third place for most of the next decade.
Despite this turnover in the ownership, a powerhouse team composed of Feller, Doby, Minnie Miñoso, Luke Easter, Bobby Avila, Al Rosen, Early Wynn, Bob Lemon, and Mike Garcia continued to contend through the early 1950s.
Despite the potential for a financially strong owner, Stouffer had some non-baseball related financial setbacks and, consequently, the team was cash-poor.
Despite the major changes made to the team in the offseason, the team wound up with its first winning season since 1997.
Despite the negative connotations associated with the term " Cabal ," the name has stuck with this particular team of " good-guy geeks.
Despite no wins, the RCR team finished the season 5th in the final standings.
Despite the championship, the team did not draw enough fans to stay solvent at the major league level, as Detroit was at the time one of the smallest cities in the National League and its rapid industry-fueled growth was still several years in the future.
Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers.
Despite this setback, Baresi refused to give up his dream and tried out for the Milan youth team, where he was accepted.
* Ivan Rodriguez ( 2003 ) — Despite only playing one season with the Marlins, he put up some the of the best offensive and defensive statistics by a Marlins catcher and was a key cog in the 2003 World Championship team.
Despite Australian rules football's huge popularity in the state of Tasmania, the state does not have a team in the Australian Football League.
Despite general agreement that the rainbow uniforms identified with the team had become tired ( and looked too much like a minor league team according to the new owners ), the new uniforms and caps were never especially popular with fans.
Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.
Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.
Despite the name implying a design evolving from the K5, it is in fact a totally different design that was created by the NexGen team, including chief processor architect Greg Favor, and adapted after the AMD purchase.
Despite major signings, including Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey, and Ray Wilkins, the team failed to achieve any significant results ; they finished in the top two in 1979 – 80 and lost to Arsenal in the 1979 FA Cup Final.
Despite an AL-worst 63-99 record, the team drew over three million fans for the second consecutive year.
Despite his efforts, he has not been on a title winning first-class domestic team in either the Premier Trophy or the County Championship.
Despite yet another losing season, the Mets made history in 2011 when Jason Isringhausen converted his 300th save with the team, the third player in franchise history to reach the milestone while with the organization behind John Franco and Billy Wagner.
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