On the left, a mathematical function defining a bump map simulates a crumbling surface on a sphere, but the object's outline and shadow remain those of a perfect sphere.

On a crumbling, sticky pitch, the Australians were having extreme difficulty with the spin of Hugh Tayfield and faced their first Test defeat against South Africa for 39 years.

On the many sticky or crumbling pitches encountered in his prime Attewell could get on a great deal of spin so as to always beat the bat, whilst his accuracy would make slogging-the only way to make runs under such conditions-very difficult.

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.

On a pitch with " exceptional bounce and pace ", Key was the only English batsman to keep his wicket intact for a prolonged period, batting passively for 47, the highest score of the innings.

On 27 Nov 2009 he claimed his fifth five wicket bag for New Zealand on his first test back against Pakistan.

On 20 January 2007 Ntini dislodged Mohammed Sami to take his 300th test wicket, in his 74th test.

On 1 August 2008 he removed England opener Alastair Cook to claim his 350th test wicket in his 90th test.

On the West Indies ' return to England in July, 2004, Jones played just one match, again at Lord's, taking one wicket, before finding himself out of the Test lineup, but England went on to win the four match home series 4-0.

On 7 October 2007 Maharoof took his 100th wicket in his 75th ODI ; at the time he was the fastest Sri Lankan to reach the landmark, beating Muttiah Muralitharan by one match, however this record was later taken by fast bowler Lasith Malinga in 2010 who reached 100 wickets in 68 matches.

On 1 July 2006, Solanki took his first wicket in ODIs at Headingley, removing Sri Lankan opener Sanath Jayasuriya for 152.

On 9 August 1991, during a match between England and the West Indies at the Oval, Ian Botham fell over his stumps whilst attempting to hook Curtly Ambrose and so was dismissed " hit wicket ".

On another occasion he was out leg before wicket but refused to leave, claiming: " They came to watch me bat, not you bowl ".

* On 1 December 2000, Australia's Glenn McGrath took a Test hat-trick, dismissing the West Indian batsmen Sherwin Campbell, Brian Lara, and captain Jimmy Adams, taking his 300th Test wicket in the process ( Lara ), after publicly announcing that he would like Lara to be his 300th scalp ( Scorecard ).

On 2 January 2008, Hogg scored a Test-career-best 79 as part of a 173-run partnership with Andrew Symonds -- a 7th wicket record for both the Sydney Cricket Ground and Australia vs. India.

On 1 February 2012, Hogg returned to international cricket at the Sydney Olympic Stadium in a Twenty20 international against India, returning figures of one wicket ( that of Virat Kohli ) for 21 runs from four overs.

On a pitch conducive to spin at Kanpur for the second Test, Harvey was given a rare opportunity to bowl and he took the wicket of the Indian captain, Gulabrai Ramchand.

If the pitch was uneven or otherwise difficult for batting, he was extremely difficult to bat against: in 1892, Wisden noted: " On anything like a rough or bumpy wicket he is, beyond all question, the most difficult and dangerous bowler of the day, the ball getting up from the pitch so high and so fast as to intimidate all but the very pluckiest of batsmen.

On 28 July 2000, Angel was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for being " fourth on list of all time greatest wicket takers for Western Australia ".

On debut, when a draw became a foregone conclusion, Johnston was allowed to bowl the final over, taking a wicket maiden.

On a rain-affected wicket, Fingleton reached his maiden Test century in only 180 minutes before wickets began falling steadily.

On the tour as a whole, he scored 1, 098 runs at an average of 54. 90, but he did not take a single first-class wicket ; in the Tests he only bowled 18 overs.

George Giffen said of Trott, " On a good wicket, I have seen Harry Trott adopt forcing tactics worthy of the big hitter, and in the very next match play keeps on a difficult pitch with wonderful skill.

On the second day, Langer and Matthew Hayden accumulated 110 for the first wicket, and runs just kept flowing as the Australians made 402 in a day-Brad Haddin top-scoring with 94, Jason Gillespie making an unbeaten 53 including two sixes, while Nadeem Malik got the best bowling figures three wickets for 78.

On the fourth day, Australia defied all predictions with a 45-run partnership between Warne and Lee, before Warne was forced back onto his stumps by Flintoff to get dismissed hit wicket.

On 28 July 2000, Alderman was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for being the all-time leading wicket taker for Western Australia.

On his debut on a difficult wicket at Sydney he hit 51 while batting at eight and took 3 for 14.

On the morning of September 10, 1895, Powell and Ross rose at dawn and began their day's work.

On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''.

On January 18, Ernest Gross conducted a press conference at the U.N. lasting an hour.

On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

On arrival at headquarters he had, however -- in King Stanislas' words to Glayre -- `` found such favor with Pe Potemkin that he made him his aide-de-camp and up to now does not want him to go join Paul Jones.

On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.

On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least 20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the UN General Assembly that this country, in `` self protection '', might have to resume above-ground tests.

On the Christophers' lawn, little girls in white pinafores were playing grownups at a tea party.

On such occasions he had not had the courage to look at the face above the hand, whatever face it might be.

On ships at sea, on railroad trains, in summer hotels with mountain views, they always said, `` I've never done this before ''.

On October 8th of last year, the Industrial Division sponsored the Governor's Conference on Industrial Development at the former Henry Barnard School.

On April 30, ceremonies commemorating the departure of these volunteers will take place at 1:00 P.M. at the Dexter Training Grounds in Providence.

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

On their way, they stopped at every gas station along the main boulevards to question the attendants.

On C, from the point P at Af to the point Q at Af, we construct the chord, and upon the chord as a side erect a square in such a way that as S approaches zero the square is inside C.

On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, is it true that pupil assignment has effectively cut off, blocked, or reduced school desegregation to a `` trickle ''??

On the theory before us, such relief would be groundless, for in that suffering itself there was nothing bad at all, and hence in its nonoccurrence there would be nothing to be relieved about.

On June 14, 1900 the Manchester Journal reported that an electrical engineer was installing an electric light plant for Edward S. Isham at `` Ormsby Hill ''.