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Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House

Additional features include a well-pump in the kitchen, a wood stove, and a large carriage stone on the front lawn, which acted as a step for ascending into or descending from carriages.


1997–98 Coca-Cola Cup

Sachin Tendulkar won the man of the tournament award and an Opel Astra that went with the award apart from winning other awards for most sixes and fastest fifty whereas Damien Fleming and Ricky Ponting of Australia won the best bowler and best fielder awards respectively.

2007 Weber Cup


Team USA captain Tim Mack, together with Tommy Jones, put the Americans in front overall for the first time, with a 226-207 win over Team Europe's captain Tomas Leandersson and Mika Koivuniemi.

Adrian McAdam

McAdam, who was a fast bowler, claimed the wickets of Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Ashraful and Javed Omar.

Andrew Hilditch

When a wayward throw from a Pakistani fieldsman dribbled onto the pitch, Hilditch picked up the ball and handed it back to the bowler, Sarfraz Nawaz.

Bernard Hollowood

One of his Staffordshire team-mates was the great bowler Sydney Barnes, whose last match for Staffordshire was in 1935.

Bill Edrich

A gutsy batsman he was "almost indifferent to his own safety. No bowler is too fast to hook; no score too large to defy challenge" and was badly bruised standing up to the bouncers of Lindwall and Miller in 1946-47 and 1948.

Billy Hardwick

There have been only five other Triple Crown winners since: Johnny Petraglia, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Chris Barnes.

Brian Bolus

He hit the first ball he faced in Test cricket, bowled by Wes Hall, back over the bowler's head for four.

Chris Dalkin

A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Dalkin took 5/90 in Pakistan's first innings at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

Clara Guerrero

She earned the #4 seed for the stepladder finals of the 2013 PBA Cheetah Championship, joining Liz Johnson (2005) and Kelly Kulick (2010) who have also made the TV finals of PBA Tour events.

Colin Blythe

It is also the most wickets any bowler has ever taken in a single day's cricket (since equalled by Hedley Verity and Tom Goddard).

David A. Tall

Born in Plympton, he was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Devon.

Delroy Taylor

In this match, he scored 82 runs in the university's first-innings, before being dismissed by Paul Franks, while in their second-innings he same bowler dismissed him for a single run.

Dennis Raetz

Raetz began a coaching career that took him from North Kansas City High, where his teams were renowned for their defensive prowess, to a head coaching position at the J.C Harmon High; where he coached future NFL Pro Bowler Mark Haynes.

Diandra Asbaty

Champion at 2010 PBA Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles tournament (with Brian Voss)

Gareth Cloete

He was generally used as a lower-order batsman, generally ninth or tenth within the Namibian batting lineup, as well as being used as an attacking bowler in partnership with Rudi Scholtz.

George Hunt

George E. Hunt (1896–1959), medium-pace bowler who made over 200 appearances for Somerset

George Louden

Business meant Louden never had the tiniest hope of going on an tour to Australia, though he was doubtless much better suited to the cast-iron Australian pitches than any English professional bowler of the time.

Hammad Siddiqi

In 1996, he was named in the 100 Best Young Cricketers in Pakistan, which included future stars like Shahid Afridi, Hasan Raza, Bazid Khan and Faisal Iqbal, and was invited to a camp for fast bowlers supervised by former Test bowler Sarfraz Nawaz the same year.

Henry Tinsley

Born in Welham Grange, Malton, Yorkshire, England, Tinsley was a right arm fast bowler, who took four first-class wickets at 14.25, with a best of 3 for 15 against Lancashire.

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

Ian Fyfe

A bowler from his early cricket days at St. Pat's School under the watchful eye of Jacob Harris and as a leading wicket taker for Karachi Goan Association, he was among the top slow left arm spin bowlers of Karachi at that time.

Jess Stayrook

He is mainly known for being the third and last bowler to convert the 7-10 split on television after John Mazza (1991) and Mark Roth (1980).

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.

Joseph McMaster

He was selected for an under-strength England team that toured South Africa in 1888/9 and was selected as a bowler in the second and final Test match, in Cape Town, starting on 25 March 1889.

Katherine Brown

A right-arm off-break bowler, Katherine played a test match for the English women's cricket team in 1979 against West Indies, scoring 16 in her only innings and, bowling off breaks, took two wickets in the match for 56 runs.

Larry Bowler

Bowler originally made an unsuccessful run for the state assembly in 1988, losing to then Assemblyman Phil Isenberg by a margin of 57% to 43%.

Lob bowling

The last regular bowler of lobs in international cricket was George Simpson-Hayward in the period before the First World War and he bowled under arm bowling with a lower trajectory than most earlier lob bowlers, imparting great spin to the ball with constant variation of pace as well.

Mark Roth

He plays an opponent of a 153-average bowler (Al Molinaro) fulfilling a fantasy to compete and win against professionals.

Mor Aviram

Her brother, Or Aviram, is also a professional bowler, as was their mother, Sara Aviram.

Mutoid Waste Company

The Mutoid Waste Company was a performance arts group founded in the West London United Kingdom by Joe Rush and Robin Cooke in collaboration with Alan P Scott and Joshua Bowler.

Nick Knight

Knight's middle name was in honour of the 1930s English Test bowler Hedley Verity who was killed in World War II and is a distant family relation.

Pat Pieper

A dedicated bowler, Pieper subbed for an absent player in the American Bowling Congress tournament in 1924.

Patrick Coombe

He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Cornwall.

Professional Women's Bowling Association

Former PWBA members such as Kelly Kulick, Kim Adler and Liz Johnson would eventually become exempt members of the PBA Tour.

Pundits from Pakistan

It includes a conversation with Intikhab Alam, the former Pakistani cricket captain, and interviews with Danish Kaneria, the Pakistani leg spinner, Sabih Azhar, Shoaib Akhtar’s first coach, Aaqib Javed, the former Pakistani fast bowler, Andy Atkinson, the English pitch consultant who had been hired by the Pakistan Cricket Board, Abdul Qadir, the former Pakistani leg spinner, and Sourav Ganguly, the Indian captain on the tour.

Rahatullah Mohmand

He was invited to play for Afghanistan to strengthen their batting by their coach Kabir Khan, the former left-arm fast medium bowler who played four Tests for Pakistan.He included in the 15-member Afghanistan team named ahead of the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifiers due to take place in South Africa.

Rasanara Parwin

Rasanara Parwin (born Rasanara Kephatulla Parwin) born on May 4, 1992 is a right-arm off break bowler for the India national women's cricket team who made her debut in the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup against West Indies.

Red Hat Society

In 1997, Cooper gave a friend a 55th birthday gift consisting of a red bowler purchased at an antique store along with a copy of Jenny Joseph's poem "Warning".

Scott Boswell

Scott Anthony John Boswell (born September 11, 1974 in Fulford, York, North Yorkshire, England) is an English cricketer, who until his retirement specialised as a medium-fast bowler.

Shane Lee

Despite being included in the 1996 and 1999 World Cup squads, he only really established himself in the team in the 1999-2000 Carlton and United Series along with the emergence of his younger brother, fast bowler Brett Lee.

Stasia Czernicki

Czernicki was the first woman bowler regularly seen on the long-running TV show Candlepin Bowling, broadcast on Boston's WHDH-TV (later WCVB-TV), Channel 5.

Sullivan, Missouri

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

Sultans of Sylhet

In Sultans of Sylhet it is bowler Nazmul Hossain who has been on the Bangladesh national team when they beat world number one Australia.

Tony Clarkson

born 5 September 1939, Killinghall, Harrogate, Yorkshire, Clarkson was a right-handed opening batsman and off break bowler, and played his early cricket for the Harrogate Club, for whom he opened both the batting and the bowling.

Trent Boult

Born in Rotorua, Boult is a left–arm medium–fast opening bowler and a right–handed batsman.

Underarm bowling incident of 1981

Greg Chappell, the Australian captain, ordered the bowler (his brother Trevor) to bowl underarm, rolling the ball along the ground to prevent the Number 10 New Zealand batsman (Brian McKechnie) any chance of hitting a six from the last ball to tie the match.

Waqar Younis

The world's fastest sprinter and runner Usain Bolt, who is from Jamaica (in the West Indies), once famously replied while being asked about who were his heroes when he was a child: "When I was really small I loved the Pakistan cricket team. Waqar Younis was one of the greatest bowlers ever, and I was a bowler so I really enjoyed watching him. I was a big Pakistan fan until I got older, when I noticed that I should actually support my home team."

Weber Cup

On Day 1, in the 5th match, Tommy Jones rolled the 2nd ever perfect game in the tournament's history, against Team Europe captain Tomas Leandersson, and at close of play on day one, the scores were tied at 4 matches apiece.


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