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last and wicket
England won the last Test at The Oval by one wicket.
The last wicket pair of George Hirst and Rhodes were left with 15 runs to get, and duly got them.
Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.
He retired from Test cricket in 2010, registering his 800th and final wicket on 22 July 2010 from his final ball in his last Test match.
His last goodbye was interrupted by Glenn McGrath taking Kevin Pietersen's wicket ; Benaud simply wove his description of the dismissal into what he was already saying.
His 400th Test wicket was claimed on 4 February 1990, and with his last Test delivery, on 9 July 1990, he dismissed Devon Malcolm for a duck.
On the opening day of the Fourth Test at Headingley ( Leeds ), England were out for 200, but Australia slumped to 3 / 39, losing the third wicket from the last ball of the day.
England declared on the last morning of the game, setting Australia a world record 404 runs to win in only 345 minutes on a heavily worn wicket.
The ' last man standing rule ' means that the first team to leave the backyard or playing area ( such as an oval or beach ), automatically forfeits the wicket.
If a team hits a ' six and out ' to win the game, the team wins and the batsman goes out, plus the six counts, whatever the set amount of wickets may be ( even if the wicket was the teams ' last ).
This was two runs short of the then Test record for the tenth wicket, and is still a Test record for the last wicket between England and the West Indies.
He took a wicket with the last ball of his third over and then bowled number 11 batsman Richard Higgins with the first ball of his next over to complete the Gunbower innings, leaving Chris Taylor the not out batsman.
During the second innings, he reached his 50th wicket in Test cricket when he had Keith Miller caught behind, but Miller had the last laugh as his ten-wicket haul won the match for Australia.
Two wickets fell during the over with Pakistan needing 4 runs and India one wicket from the last ball.
His last test was the Fifth Ashes Test against England in Sydney in January 2007, where he took a wicket with the last ball of his test career.
The last over started with the Africans needing eight runs with one wicket in hand.
The size and shape of the wicket has changed several times during the last 300 years and its dimensions and placing is now determined by Law 8 in the Laws of Cricket, thus:
* The tenth wicket or last wicket partnership is from when the eleventh ( last ) batsman gets in until a tenth ( last ) batsman gets out.

last and stand
It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.
`` Senator '', said an interviewer, `` your constituents can't understand from your speech last night just how you stand on the question ''.
Caesar knew this would be his last stand as they had run out of supplies and with no lines of retreat they would be at Pompey's mercy and likely slaughtered if they lost the battle.
The Marquis de Maffei attempted one last stand with his Bavarian and Cologne Guards, but it proved in vain.
During Europa League games, due to UEFA specifications, the last blocks nearest to the Cottage are used to house away fans rather than the Putney stand.
Captain America and the Avengers teams end up forming a militia for a last stand against the forces of the Serpent.
He worked for various newspapers in the Rocky Mountain area ; at one of those, the spelling of his last name was changed from " Runyan " to " Runyon ," a change he let stand.
Bartov wrote that German film-makers liked to show the heroic last stand of the 6th Army at Stalingrad, but none has so far showed the 6th Army's massive co-operation with the Einsatzgruppen in murdering Soviet Jews in 1941.
Nevertheless, we have researched the subject thoroughly — sitting through more than 2, 000 wretched films in the last few years — and we believe that our nominees and award winners can stand the test of time.
The events were described by the Jewish leader / historian Josephus, including the desperate defence of Jotapata, the siege of Jerusalem ( 69 – 70 CE ) and heroic last stand at Masada under Eleazar ben Yair ( 72 – 73 CE ).
The Jewish Agency put together plans for a last stand in the event of Rommel invading Palestine ( the Nazis planned to exterminate Palestine's Jews ).
In his non-first-class appearances for Somerset, his bowling figures did not stand out, but there were some sizeable scores, namely 91 for the Under-25s v Glamorgan Under-25s, 82 & 42 v Cornwall, 51 v Gloucester Under-25s, 50 v Glamorgan 2nd XI and in his last game ( before his 1986 comeback match ) 100 against Glamorgan 2nd XI.
As the tide of the war turned against Germany, Terboven's personal aspiration was to organise a " Fortress Norway " ( Festung Norwegen ) for the Nazi regime's last stand.
When other Nazi leaders urged Hitler to leave Berlin and establish a new centre of resistance in the National Redoubt in Bavaria, Goebbels opposed this, arguing for a last stand in the ruins of the Reich capital.
The literary achievements of Wycliffe's last days, such as the Trialogus, stand at the peak of the knowledge of his day.
Kagoshima was the birthplace and scene of the last stand of Saigō Takamori, a legendary figure in Meiji Japan in 1877 at the end of the Satsuma Rebellion.
The People's Front of Judea, composed of the Pythons ' characters, harangue their " rivals " with cries of " splitters " and stand vehemently opposed to the Judean People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front, the Campaign for a Free Galilee, and the Popular Front of Judea ( the last composed of a single old man, mocking the size of real revolutionary Trotskyist factions ).
In addition to name the food stand after the owners ’ last name or the food sold, these food stands were also often named after the owners ’ nicknames.
The Stretford End was the last stand to receive a cantilevered roof, completed in time for the 1993 – 94 season.
Macbeth did not survive the English invasion, for he was defeated and mortally wounded or killed by the future Malcolm III (" King Malcolm Ceann-mor ", son of Duncan I ) on the north side of the Mounth in 1057, after retreating with his men over the Cairnamounth Pass to take his last stand at the battle at Lumphanan.
When the Old Guard was surrounded and made its last stand at La Belle Alliance, he supposedly shouted in defiance to a call for their honorable surrender: " The Old Guard dies but does not surrender!
The Père Lachaise Cemetery, where the defenders of the Paris Commune made their last stand and many of them were afterwards summarily executed, is the focus of annual pilgrimages by parties and organizations of the French Left.
' The introduction video shows the abduction of such a warrior, Sarge, while making a last stand.
At the time of his last stand against the Lancastrians, Richard was a widower without a legitimate son.

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