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unusual facts about Bowling, West Dunbartonshire



Andrew Fekete

He took 2/42, but broke his foot while bowling, courtesy of a powerful hit by Theo Doropoulos.

Birkhill, Angus

sports facilities, including a football pitch and a tennis court an also a very busy and enthusiastic Bowling Club

Bowling Brook

He was given the name of his trainer's Bowling Brook Farm at Middleburg in Carroll County, Maryland.

Bowling on NBC

Bowling on NBC is a television program presenting professional ten-pin bowling matches on NBC Sports.

Bowling pin

Juggling clubs could be mistaken for bowling pins due to their similar shape.

Celebrity Bowling

The weekly series was a by-product of The Celebrity Bowling Classic, a 90-minute TV special produced in 1969 for the Metromedia-owned stations, benefitting the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation.

Colin Guest

He scored 26 not out and 74 (his highest first-class score) in his first game for Western Australia and made some other useful contributions with the bat, but his bowling lacked its former penetration, and with strong competition for pace-bowling places in the state side from McKenzie, Sam Gannon, Laurie Mayne, Ian Brayshaw and Jim Hubble, he played no further first-class cricket after that season.

Dekker Curry

He also took 33 wickets, his best bowling being 3/28 against the USA in the 1997 ICC Trophy.

Edgar Willsher

His older brother, senior by over ten years, William Willsher, would go on to have an inauspicious career with Kent three years before Edgar's own debut when, in 1847, he appeared in one first class match, scoring a pair at number eleven and not bowling.

England and Wales Cricket Board

The ECB courted further controversy in 2005 when they appeared to dither over the employment contract of the bowling coach Troy Cooley who was seen by many as an important contributor to England's Ashes success.

Ernie Toshack

In Wellington, he opened the bowling in a match that was retrospectively classed as an official Test match.

Fred Ridgway

Career-best figures of eight for 39, however, against Nottinghamshire at the tail end of the season, was followed by an impressive 1951, where he took over ninety wickets and, with Alec Bedser amongst others declining to tour India, Ridgway was a natural choice, and was one of seven players who made their Test debut that trip where he opened the bowling with Brian Statham.

Gordon Wilcock

He retained his place for the County Championship game against Lancashire that followed, in which he achieved his first stumping, accounting for Farokh Engineer off the bowling of Norman Gifford.

Grady Mathews

When he was 14 years old in San Mateo, Mathews began playing pool at a local bowling alley.

History of cricket in Pakistan from 1947 to 1970

Spin Bowler: Muhammad Amin, known for his unique bowling style and was one of the few players of his time who could actually execute a googly

Hopper Read

Despite the fact that Farnes could not help him owing to injury, Read and Stan Nichols stood alone as a pace-bowling duo and in a sensational match at Huddersfield, their sheer pace off the pitch bowled out the otherwise unbeaten Yorkshire eleven for 31 and 99, giving Essex a win by an innings and 204 runs.

Island platform

In Jersey City, the Newport PATH station has the same configuration as Bowling Green—one side platform and one island platform.

Jack F. Reichert

He was widely credited with powering Brunswick and bowling to enormous popularity in the 1960s, more than tripling the number of bowling lanes in the United States.

Janice Bowling

Bowling has been a public official and community activist in her home town of Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Japan Professional Bowling Association

Professional bowling in Japan is a licensed profession, very much like passing the bar exam for attorneys or getting a CPA to become an accountant.

Jennifer Gove

Her bowling was also used in the match, and she claimed two wickets in the second innings, dismissing Katherine Smith caught and bowled, and trapping Ruth Westbrook leg before wicket.

Johnny Petraglia

Petraglia would win two more majors: the 1977 BPAA U.S. Open and 1980 PBA National Championship, making him one of only six players to earn the PBA career "Triple Crown." (Billy Hardwick, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Chris Barnes are the others.

Kalpesh Patel

Patel once promised to become a very good cricketer: Andy Moles watched him play at Under-19 level and compared his bowling style with that of Terry Alderman, although he felt that his future was probably more as a batting all-rounder.

Kamron Doyle

He then went on to defeat Mike Williams II, 2 games to 1 in the round of 8, and met eventual tournament winner and bowling legend Walter Ray Williams, Jr. in the round of 4.

Kenny Tran

He first began playing poker in 1992 at a bowling alley while working at McDonald's.

Lamplough Wallgate

Wallgate was born in Norton-on-Derwent, Malton, Yorkshire, England, and scored nine first-class runs, and took one wicket for seventeen with his round arm, right-handed, bowling.

Little Stanney

The Blue Planet Aquarium, The Coliseum Retail Park, Vue Cinema, bowling alley, two nightclubs, Cheshire Oaks Business Park, a David Lloyd Leisure club and respectively Porsche, Audi and Lexus dealerships have all grown up around the outlet and are situated to the north and east of the village.

Min Patel

Again, Patel struggled on a pitch not suited to spin bowling, however he managed to take his maiden (and last) Test wicket; that of Sanjay Manjrekar, caught by Graeme Hick.

N0M4D

Inside this bowling alley was an arcade room with some of the most popular games to date, such as: Space Invaders, Donkey Kong Jr., and Dig Dug.

Northtown Plaza

A bowling establishment, Fair Lanes Windfern (today a branch of AMF) in nearby Jersey Village, Texas, was the location of another such crime in June 1980.

Ormond Robbins

Selected tales of Grim and Grue from the Horror Pulps, Sheldon Jaffery, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987, ISBN 87972-391-2, ISBN 87972-392-0.

Peter Randall Johnson

Against W. G. Grace's London County side, he took four for 99 and these remained the best bowling figures of his long career.

Pittsburgh Athletic Association

Some of the building's more interesting features include a pool on the third floor, full basketball and squash courts, a 16 lane bowling alley, and a room dedicated to former University of Pittsburgh football coach Johnny Majors.

Ricardo Brangman

In Guyana's successful chase, Brangman took a single catch from behind the stumps, catching Travis Dowlin for 4 runs off the bowling of Traddie Simpson.

Richmond, Queensland

Richmond has a public library, golf course, bowling club, swimming facilities, race course, caravan park, tourist information centre and a fossil museum named Kronosaurus Korner.

Rock 'n' Roll Star

The song's video consists of clips of the band performing the song from their Live by the Sea gig, interspersed with clips of them on Southend Pier, in and around the amusement park, 'Adventure Island' then named 'Peter Pan's Playground' and in the bowling alley which was located on Southend Pier before it burnt down in June 1995.

Saint Francis Red Flash

The Saint Francis Red Flash are the 22 sports teams representing Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, track and field, and volleyball; women's-only bowling, field hockey, lacrosse, softball, and swimming; and men's-only football.

Simon Halliday

This was when he scored 113 not out against Kent in 1982, with a bowling lineup consisting of English Test cricketers Graham Dilley and Bob Woolmer.

Sport bowling

Sport Bowling was created by the United States Bowling Congress, the governing body of the sport of bowling, to offer players the opportunity to bowl on exactly the same lane conditions and oil patterns that professional bowlers face on the PBA Tour.

Sullivan, Missouri

Elvin Mesger, Bowler, holder of the American Bowling Congress record for 800-or-better series

T. J. Cook

Cook made his debut on July 22, 2011, at Strikeforce Challengers: Bowling vs. Voelker replacing an injured Guto Inocente against Lionel Lanham.

Ted Tyler

Tyler will always be remembered for the share he had in securing Somerset's promotion to first-class rank in 1891, and his effective bowling in the seasons that immediately followed, when Somerset, with Sammy Woods and Lionel Palairet at their best, had such a strong and attractive team.

Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr.

In 2004 Bowling sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections along with fellow inmate Ralph Baze on the grounds that execution by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Thomas Stringer

Worcestershire were crushed by an innings and 183 runs, and Stringer's only innings of bowling brought him figures of 1-103, his one and only victim in first-class cricket being future Test player Harry Makepeace.

WKYU

WKYU-FM, a radio station (88.9 FM) licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

World Ranking Masters

As earlier reported, the Qatar Bowling Federation (QBF) withdrew as host of the 2007 World Ranking Masters, which should originally take place in Doha, from April 30 through May 6.

Xavier Marshall

Batting at number four, he scored five runs from 10 balls against Australia; he was dismissed caught behind by Adam Gilchrist off the bowling of Brett Lee.


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