While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.

While batting, he stood very straight and side on to the bowler.

While playing for in the IPL in 2008, Maharoof was team mates with Australia seam bowler Glen McGrath ; according to Marahroof, McGrath helped him with his bowling variations, making a " huge difference ", and introduced more control to his slower ball.

While Illingworth was undoubtedly a brilliant captain, a fine off spin bowler and a useful batsman at international level, his reappointment to international colours as administrator in the mid 1990s proved to be wholly unsuccessful.

While perfectly legal, some contend that by convention, a bowler should warn a batsman who persists in backing up before dismissing him in that fashion.

While mainly a bowler, Trumble batted well enough to make 851 runs in Test cricket at an average of 19. 79 with a highest score of 70.

: While the bowler, pitched against him, bans the day he was born ;

While in England, Fazal received coaching from retired England and Surrey fast bowler Alf Gover.

While trying to adjust to her new nocturnal lifestyle, she's aided by C. Thomas ( Tommy ) Flood, a wannabe writer who just moved to town and works as a night clerk ( and champion " turkey bowler ") at a local Safeway.

While a bowler, with the use of variations in his / her delivery aims to target the concentration of batsmen as well as their skill and technique of batting, anticipation of the delivery is crucial for the batmen, as emphasized by Jodi Richardson.

While batting he had two bones of his right hand broken by fast bowler Frank King.

While his average of almost 40 with the ball in first-class cricket with Victoria and South Australia was high for a bowler, he was from the pre-Shane Warne era of spinners who were of a much lower standard.

While never reaching the lofty standards of his brother he was a good off break bowler for Victoria and handy with the bat.

While Alexander was waiting for his guests to arrive, he stood by a window, watching a group of boys at play on the seashore below the house.

While the rest of Stalin's inner circle ( even Molotov, saved from certain liquidation ) stood sobbing unashamedly over the body, Beria reportedly appeared " radiant ", " regenerated ", and " glistening with ill-concealed relish.

While PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, it is now said to stand for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, a recursive acronym.

While those on whom the Spirit had descended were speaking in tongues, the Apostle Peter stood up with the eleven and proclaimed to the crowd that this event was the fulfillment of the prophecy (" I will pour out my spirit ") In Acts 2: 17, it reads: "' And in the last days ,' God says, ' I will pour out my spirit upon every sort of flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy and your young men will see visions and your old men will dream dreams.

At one point, Wilson wrote: " While the flower of American youth was pouring out its blood to vindicate the cause of civilization, this man, Debs, stood behind the lines sniping, attacking, and denouncing them .... This man was a traitor to his country and he will never be pardoned during my administration.

While his heir Louis-Charles was still a minor, the Count of Provence, the Duke of Orléans or, if either was unavailable, someone chosen by election should become regent, completely passing over the rights of Charles who, in the royal lineage, stood between the Count of Provence and the Duke of Orléans.

While this is an example of co-option and the flexibility of biological systems, none of the proposed homologies that have been reported between cilia and spirochetes have stood up to further scrutiny.

While in previous comic versions of the mythos, it was assumed the " S " simply stood for " Superman "; in Birthright, Waid presented the symbol as a Kryptonian symbol of hope ( borrowing and modifying a concept from Superman: The Movie, where the " S " represented the House of El, Superman's ancestral family ).

" While the " legendary acts of gallantry " stood out, the book invites readers to put themselves in the place of those aboard and implicitly asks how they would react in the same situation.

While he stood wondering how it had happened, Lord Vishnu rose from the ant-hill and cursed the King saying that he would become an Asura because of the fault of his servant.

While the others stood and watched in very fear.

While at Georgetown, Mutombo's international background and interests stood out.

While the Howard Johnson's company-owned and franchised motor lodges have stood the test of time since being sold by the Howard Johnson's Company in 1979, the restaurants have not.

* Totem Pole: While a counselor at Camp Campbell Gard McClosky carved a totem pole that stood at the camp for over 50 years before being moved inside to the museum housed in the Hamilton, Ohio Municipal Building

While the Engel decision held that the promulgation of an official state-school prayer stood in violation of the First Amendment ’ s Establishment Clause ( thus overruling the New York Courts ’ decisions ), Abington held that Bible readings and other ( state ) school-sponsored religious activities were prohibited.

While Britain stood largely aloof from the Alliance's illiberal actions, the four Continental monarchies were successful in authorising Austrian military action in Italy in 1821 and French intervention in Spain in 1823.

: While bishops at Nicaea were deliberating about this, some thought that a law ought to be passed enacting that bishops and presbyters, deacons and subdeacons, should hold no intercourse with the wife they had espoused before they entered the priesthood ; but Paphnutius, the confessor, stood up and testified against this proposition ; he said that marriage was honorable and chaste, and that cohabitation with their own wives was chastity, and advised the Synod not to frame such a law, for it would be difficult to bear, and might serve as an occasion of incontinence to them and their wives ; and he reminded them, that according to the ancient tradition of the church, those who were unmarried when they took part in the communion of sacred orders, were required to remain so, but that those who were married, were not to put away their wives.

While he was a captive in Spain he stood for and lost a seat in Parliament for Westminster, being defeated by a Tory brewer who made slurs against Stanhope's alleged homosexuality and whipped up popular anti-war sentiment to carry the seat with a landslide.

While many stood and died beside their Solar mates in the Usurpation, those that were not killed along with their companions fled to the edges of Creation.

While Parliamentary troopers from Astley House stood accused of taking a rapier, a swordbelt and ‘ a snapsack ’ worth 8 shillings, from old Sampson Goodhall when they passed through Earl Shilton.

While the term " OS " stood for Operating System, the term " react " referred to the group's dissatisfaction with-and reaction to-Microsoft's monopolistic position.

While Rama stood back, Sugriva shouted a challenge, and dared him to battle.

While the resistance of the Greek-speaking bishops collapsed, those from the Latin-speaking world, such as Dacius of Milan and Facundus, who were then at Constantinople, stood firm.

While she stood in her backyard talking on the telephone with a friend, a stray bullet hit her in her head, causing instant death.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.

While with the Whiteman band Mercer met Jerry Arlen.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.

While I fully agree with Sir Anthony's contention, I think that we must carry the analysis farther, bearing in mind that while common peril may be the measure of our need, the existence or absence of a positive sense of community must be the measure of our capacity.

While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.

While some regression is inevitable, it is discouraged rather than encouraged so that the transference does not follow the stages of planned regression associated with certain casework adaptations of the psychoanalytic model for insight therapy.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While the phonemes can be very easily stated, no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in some way to morphemic units, i.e. until the morphophonemics is worked out, or at least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

While talking with Julian M. Beall, Francisco Archuleta and Juan Marcus appeared, both heavily armed, and after watching the house for a while, rode away.

While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

While man shares this procreative function with all his predecessors in the evolutionary process, he is the only animal with a true non-instinctive and conscious creative ability.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

While the city council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, Mr. Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent to get `` the benefit of his views ''.

While we are filling outer space with scientific successes, for many the `` inner '' space of their soul is an aching void.

While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the island.