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Wijesuriya was also picked for the 1979 tour of England, where he ended up with ten wickets at an average of 37. 70 in five first class games, including three for 13 against Scotland in a rain-hit three-day game.
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Wijesuriya was recalled for the 1981 tour of England, and impressed slightly more, recording his first career five-wicket-haul with five for 35 against a combined team of Oxford University and Cambridge University.
Sri Lanka lost the Test by an innings and 102 runs, and Wijesuriya was quietly dropped and forgotten for three years.
Wijesuriya and also
Wijesuriya also toured Pakistan as a youth player some time before 1979, taking 25 wickets in a series.
Wijesuriya and for
In March the following year, Wijesuriya made his official international debut on the tour of Pakistan, bowling eight overs for 48 runs in a rain-shortened ODI and dismissing Mansoor Akhtar for 20.
By the end of the match, however, that average had been set to 297-where it remained, giving him the highest bowling average ( for a time, West Indian Rawl Lewis overtook Wijesuriya with one wicket for more than 300 runs but more success in 2008 brought down Lewis ' bowling average ).
Wijesuriya and tour
Wijesuriya took 15 first class wickets from five games on tour at a bowling average of 31. 13.
Wijesuriya and wickets
Wijesuriya took key wickets in the first ODI, removing Krish Srikkanth and Mohammad Azharuddin early, but his eight overs cost 56 runs and India eked out a two-wicket victory.
Wijesuriya and average
Roger Gerald Christopher Ediriweera Wijesuriya ( born 18 February 1960, Moratuwa ) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who holds the worst bowling average in Test cricket.
Wijesuriya and .
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Wijesuriya represented Sri Lanka from 1978-79 until 1985-86, but never impressed in international cricket, although his first class and List A statistics were quite decent.
Despite the credible performance from Wijesuriya, Sri Lanka lost the match by 89 runs, and they suffered a 4 – 0 defeat in the ODI series and lost the Test series 2 – 0.
was and also
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It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.
But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.
He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.
This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.
His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.
Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.
Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.
There was also a dog, a dingo dog.
There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.
There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved.
It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.
It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.
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.
Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.
He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.
was and picked
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
Artie had picked up a snorkle and was twirling it on his forefinger.
It was a picked assault company.
She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.
His stethoscope was on the table by Scotty's bed and he picked it up and wagged it at Scotty.
In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.
When Farouk was overthrown, police picked up his personal pimp, Pulley Bey.
He was not the sort of sailor Hudson wanted his backers to see on board and he had Greene wait at Gravesend, where the Discovery picked him up.
The cleansing tissues she had been using had been falling on the floor, and he got up and picked up one, then another, hoping she would notice what he was doing.
When she picked up the receiver, her mother's cheerful voice was there.
Anne picked up the towel she was hemming for the hospital guild.
Instantaneously he would have won an immeasurable moral victory, for if she picked up, say, a pair of her panties, she might just as well lift his shorts lying alongside -- the expenditure of energy was almost the same.
::::::( 6 ) my copy of the May 18 edition of the The San Francisco Chronicle as it was when I first picked it up ( as contrasted with my copy as it was a few days later: in my fireplace, burning )
Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".
A batter is not charged with a plate appearance if, while he was at bat, a preceding runner is put out on the basepaths for the third out in a way other than by the batter putting the ball into play ( i. e., picked off, caught stealing ).
Bigfoot gained international attention when the story was picked up by the Associated Press.
In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.
For example, the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly originally appeared only in the New York Star in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year.
Its banner was again picked up by the Avar Imam Shamil, who fought against the Russians from 1834 until 1859.
It was reported that " the carcass was picked clean by vultures before experts could examine it ".
It was picked up nationally by NPR ten years later.
However, the show was never picked up for a series.
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