A secondary objective will be to keep the batting side's run rate as low as possible.

The game involves several players in a circle batting around a small ball with their hands ; the objective is to keep the ball in the air and out of the water for as long as possible.

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.

By the time a back injury forced him to relinquish the gloves, his batting had improved sufficiently to enable him to keep his place.

If the bowling team can take quick wickets, it can reduce the confidence of the batting team and can help keep their score low.

Often played by girls at the New Year, the game can be played in two fashions: by one person attempting to keep the shuttlecock aloft as long as possible, or by two people batting it back and forth.

Reggie Jackson would try to keep pace by batting in all three of the Yankee runs with a two-run double and RBI groundout, but this game would be remembered for one memorable Jackson at-bat.

Singles usually rotate the strike in a partnership, but because the bowling end changes at the end of an over, singles deliberately only taken at the end of an over are used by quality batsmen to keep the strike when they are batting with the tail-enders, who are unlikely to survive for long against quality bowling and whom an experienced batsman will normally try to protect.

Michael Vaughan chose to bat first on a good batting wicket at Trent Bridge, as England looked to set a massive target and keep up their good form.

Michael Vaughan chose to bat first on a good batting wicket at Trent Bridge, as England looked to set a massive target and keep up their good form.

A versatile player, Lucy can also keep wicket, along with batting in the top order and bowling off-spin.

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.

Conchita kept an eye on the twins and little Elena, trying to keep them from falling into the creek by which they persisted in playing.

Miguel and Arturo Ramirez remained on the veranda to keep Harper from interfering.

Shortly before nine I drove my jalopy to the street facing the Lake and parked the car in shadows far enough away from the rendezvous corner but near enough to keep the corner in clear view.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

On May 6th, Morgan, who had returned, received from Washington orders to `` send out patrols under vigilant officers '' to keep near the enemy.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

He brushed back his black hair, shoving it under his pastor's cap to keep it from blowing in his eyes.

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.

Do keep the grill high enough above the fire so that when fat from meat drips down and flares up, flames cannot reach the meat.

However, such a hotbed of gossip had grown up during the trial, that every precaution had to be taken to keep my visit from being whispered to the world, Society, and even, alas, to my own mother.

So Mr. Crombie sat on a wooden box and talked in order to keep Mr. Blatz's mind from funny things.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times -- granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside -- are correct ; ;

Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent, who had broken with his parents in order to keep the company he preferred -- pimps, panders and whores.

The commercial propagandist, who can't afford to be critical, gets along well with the amateur, from whom he feeds, but he frequently steps on the analyst's toes by refusing to keep his material genuine.

I was careful to keep my feet, the seat of the least worthy spirits, from pointing at anyone's head, where the worthiest spirits reside.

His brothers' anger caused Palfrey genuine concern, for he had imposed a dual mission upon himself: to free his slaves, and to keep the family from falling apart over the issue.

Something in my voice must have touched her deeply because her anger passed quickly, and she turned away to keep me from seeing her face.

There's no way to take him in now and keep those other two -- Wister and the one who hired the two of them -- from finding out about Roberts and lamming out.

He clamped his jaws to keep the fury from spilling out.

A portable kerosene range designed for use aboard boats is sold with a special railing to keep it from moving with the motion of the vessel.

The Revenue Service said the addition of the attachment does not keep the range from coming under the Federal manufacturers' excise tax on household-type appliances.

This was a thinly veiled anti-semitic campaign designed to keep himself in power by shifting the attention of the populace from stagnating economy and Communist mismanagement.

By shifting between shadows, one can appear to alter reality by choosing which elements of which shadows to keep, and which to move between.

It has been alleged that this was simply a thinly veiled anti-Semitic campaign designed to keep himself in power by shifting the attention of the populace from stagnating economy and Stalinist mismanagement.

However, drivers of large trucks often use the double clutching technique when unable to keep the transmission unloaded during shifting, as large vehicles are usually equipped with older, simpler and more durable unsynchronized gearboxes.

She read Friedrich Nietzsche and found in him the courage to keep upright against a periodically shifting and degrading life.

Smaller format cameras need to be tilted to view high or low subjects, but the same subjects can be captured by shifting the lens element of a large format camera up or down to keep the film, lens, and subject planes parallel.

The Masonite sheets are taped together with duct tape to prevent shifting and to keep substances from leaking through.

The meat was packed tightly at the bottom of the car to keep the center of gravity low and to prevent the cargo from shifting.

The meat was packed tightly at the bottom of the car to keep the center of gravity low and to prevent the cargo from shifting.

However, by the 1850s-60s, the planting of gambier and pepper was becoming less profitable in Singapore for several reasons, including the increasing scarcity of uncleared land for planting ( gambier quickly exhausted the soil and so plantations had to keep shifting ), the shortage of firewood from the clearing of forests, and the lack of land on Singapore Island itself.

In the shifting alliances and rivalries between the various companies, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway also wished to keep the Midland away from the coalmines which it served and, in 1859, was planning a line from Hyde just outside Manchester to New Mills and Hayfield.

This version also added the ability to keep the pitch of the record constant whilst shifting the tempo.

“ If feminism is to be adequate to its cyberpotential then it must mutate to keep up with the shifting complexities of social realities and life conditions as they are changed by the profound impact communications technologies and techno science have on all our lives.

WLTJ and WSHH often ran neck-and-neck in the ratings with similar formats, with one or the other occasionally shifting to the older or younger core of the 25-54 age demographic in order to keep up with ratings trends.

Analyst firms and the analysts that work for them are continuously expanding and shifting their coverage areas to keep pace with trends like technological convergence or media convergence, for example.

Followers of Eckankar frequently keep dream journals, since they view dreams as important teaching tools and as a gateway to " Soul Travel ," or the shifting of one's consciousness to ever-higher states of being.