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Wicket-keeper

One such selection dilemma was that faced by England selectors in the 1990s between Jack Russell (the pure keeper) and Alec Stewart (the keeper/batsman).


'Abd al-'Aziz al-Wafa'i

He became a time keeper at the Mu'ayyad Mosque in Cairo.

1986–87 Coventry City F.C. season

After only two minutes, Clive Allen scored his 49th goal of the season, heading past keeper Steve Ogrizovic at the near-post from a perfect Chris Waddle cross.

Aaron Grundy

He made his first team début on 18 October 2005 in the first round of the Football League Trophy against Halifax Town, which Bury lost 6–1, as a 16th minute substitute, replacing striker Tom Youngs, after keeper Craig Dootson had been sent off.

Alderson, West Virginia

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop (August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.

Alfred Pfaff

Since the 1960s, he lived as a barkeeper and hotel keeper in Zittenfelden in Morretal, Odenwald).

Batalha dos Aflitos

Taking advantage of an apparent lack of organization of Náutico's defense, Marcelo Costa played the free kick to Anderson, who passed two defenders and the keeper to score the goal that would define the match, the promotion for Grêmio, and the title, 72 seconds after Náutico's second missed penalty of the match.

Bert Freeman

The semi-final saw them come up against Sheffield United; the first match was again goalless, and in the replay at Goodison Park Tommy Boyle scored the goal (a long-range effort past the Sheffield keeper) that put Burnley into the FA Cup Final for the first time in their history, where they were to meet Liverpool.

Bhandary

One theory suggests Bhandari comes from Sanskrit bhạ̄ṇdā(gā)rika ‘treasurer’, ‘keeper of a storehouse’, from bhạ̄ṇdā(gā)ra ‘treasury’ or ‘storehouse’.

British Museum Department of Asia

The collection of Asian material continued during the tenure of Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks as Keeper of the Department of Antiquities from 1866 to 1896, and in 1921 the Sub-Department of Oriental Antiquities was established.

Bushy House

Bushy House was originally built in 1663 by William Samwell for Edward Proger, at a cost of £4000, as a keeper's lodge in what was at the time North Park.

Calum Price

Price took his first first-class wicket with the dismissal of Simon Mugava who nicked the ball to the keeper, and then also clean-bowled Justin Lewis.

Charles S. T. Calder

From the mid-1920s through to the outbreak of World War II, Calder was active in the resurgence of studies of Neolithic sites in Scotland as Investigator in the RCAHMS, as were V. Gordon Childe, Walter Gordon Grant and J Graham Callander, Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities.

Chris Read

Several years in the international wilderness followed, Read being overlooked in favour of first Paul Nixon and then James Foster as keeper-in-waiting in preparation for the retirement of Alec Stewart.

Clarendon Tower

The quality of the hotel was recognised in 1869 when the Duke of Edinburgh stayed there and bestowed on Oram the title of 'Hotel Keeper by Appointment to His Royal Highness Prince Alfred the Duke of Edinburgh'.

Debby Applegate

As of 2011, Applegate is working on a biography of Polly Adler, New York City's notorious Prohibition-era brothel-keeper whose 1953 memoir A House is Not a Home became a New York Times Bestseller and a 1963 film starring Shelley Winters.

Empress of Blandings

"Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", wherein we first meet the noble beast, tells of how she misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her master, with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog-calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first Silver Medal.

Eric Rowan

But he remained dogged by controversy: in the match against Lancashire, Rowan and wicket-keeper John Waite were barracked for slow scoring, and responded by sitting down on the pitch until there was quiet.

Fasihuddin

He toured England in 1967 as reserve wicket-keeper to the 19-year-old Wasim Bari, playing in six of the 17 first-class matches.

Frederick Asquith

A specialist wicket-keeper, he took two catches in the match but in his only innings failed to score, being bowled for a duck by Gilbert Jessop after coming in at number six in the order.

Hog calling

In "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", by P.G. Wodehouse the Empress of Blandings misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her owner (Lord Emsworth), with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first silver medal.

Hylton Philipson

Throughout his career Philipson was competing for the wicket-keeper's spot in the English Test side with Gregor MacGregor, which resulted in him playing in only five Test matches for England, which he did on the 1891/2 and 1894/5 tours of Australia.

J. Ward Russell

In need of a house keeper, J. Ward's nephew Bloomfield Russell and his wife Estelle Dearstyne Russell (sister-in-law to notable architect Robert Rheinlander) came to live with him with Estelle keeping house.

Jan Broberg Felt

Some of her film credits include: Slaughter of the Innocents (HBO), Poof Point (Disney), Message in a Cell Phone (Disney), The Secret Keeper (Columbia TriStar), Bug Off, The ButterCream Gang, (Feature Films for Families), Hope For Troubled Teens, Nadir, Family First, Little Secrets (Columbia TriStar), Mobsters and Mormons, and The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey.

Jesper Christiansen

In the opening match of the 2007–08 season, against FC Nordsjælland at Farum Park, Christiansen was close to score on a header, as it hit the inside of the post, and was parried by Nordsjælland keeper Kim Christensen, after a corner kick deep into extra time.

John Knyvet

Knyvett was eldest son of Richard Knyvet of Southwick, Northamptonshire, and a keeper of the "Forest of Clyve" (now part of Rockingham Forest).

John Leventhorpe

He was granted the manor of Ugley in Essex, and in 1399 he became constable of Odiham castle and keeper of the royal manor there.

Lady Rachel Pepys

On 31 July 1939, she married Lt. Col. Colin Keppel Davidson, a grandson of William Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle, and they had two children: Duncan Henry Davidson (b. 1941) and Harriet Mary (b. 1942), who married Michael Sefi, the current Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection.

MV Nimbin

The steamer Arakoon which had been loaded a quantity of salvage gear and had dispatched from Sydney late on the Monday night to assist the Nimbin was advised the same morning that the Nimbin was refloated by a message sent from the lighthouse-keeper at Seal Rocks.

Pablo Reinoso

Following the departure of Herrera, Reinoso played the first three games of the 2011 Apertura Tournament, until the arrival of the Argentine keeper Alejandro Sánchez against Palestino, Universidad Católica and Cobresal.

Pal clan

Pal is a Bengali surname, believed to have originated from Sanskrit 'Pala' meaning protector or keeper, and mostly found among Bengali Kayasthas.

Roger Woolley

Woolley proved to be a good wicket-keeper, and had his career not paralleled that of Rod Marsh he probably would have played more international cricket.

Ronald Reng

The Keeper of Dreams, the story of the German non-league goalkeeper Lars Leese who ended up playing for Barnsley Football Club in the Premier League, won the Sports Book of the Year Award in 2004.

Rudolf Brunnenmeier

"Hammers" keeper Jim Standen made fine saves from 1860 captain Brunnenmeier and eventually two goals by Alan Sealey twenty minutes before time saw West Ham captain Bobby Moore lifting his first of altogether three trophies within one year in Wembley.

Sarsden Halt railway station

A cart weighbridge was built in 1913 and a crossing-keeper's house in 1930.

Soulcatcher

A Soulcatcher (Haboolm Ksinaalgat, 'keeper of breath') is an amulet (Aatxasxw) used by the shaman (Halayt) of the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia and Alaska.

Stephen Blackmore

Stephen Blackmore CBE FRSE FIBiol FLS (born 30 July 1952) is a British botanist, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1999 until 30 December 2013; previous to this he was Keeper of Botany at the Natural History Museum in London 1990-1999.

Stephen Eva

He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Cornwall.

Sunrise Over Sea

"Essentially what I learnt out of this process was, more so than ever, I'm the keeper of the music. I have the intuition and the foresight to pick the right players to my music. I've learned it's not always about having the same players for five, six or 10 years, it’s having the right chemistry for these songs at this time. Some of my favourite Jimi Hendrix music is off-the-cuff stuff with Band of Gypsys."

Tariq Iqbal

His last game was their famous victory over the West Indies in the 1996 World Cup, in which he played as wicket-keeper and caught Brian Lara, for which he is best known.

The Camels

2006 saw the band record three tracks for the Bra Boys documentary, as well as songwriter Jamie Holt contributing the film's theme song "My Brothers' Keeper" & 18 other pieces for the original score.

The Case

Wu Gang as He Dashang, a middle-aged inn-keeper living in Lijiang.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel by American author Kim Edwards that tells the story of a man who gives away his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to one of the nurses.

The Message of the Sphinx

The Message of the Sphinx (Keeper of Genesis in the United Kingdom) was a book written by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval in 1996 which argued that the creation of the Sphinx and Pyramids can be pushed back as far as 10,500 BC using astronomical data.

The Voyage of the Uí Chorra

As a final act of contrition, on the advice of St. Coman of Kinvara, the keeper of the last church they repaired, the three brothers set out on an Atlantic Ocean voyage on a small boat (a currach), accompanied by five others (a bishop, a priest, a deacon, a musician and the craftsman who built the boat).

Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester

Lord Leicester served as Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk from 1846 to 1906 and was a member of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall and Keeper of the Privy Seal.

Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings

In the 1540s, he served King Henry VIII as Marshal of Calais and keeper of the castle at Guînes, then took an active role in the invasion of France in 1544, in particular at Montreuil and the sieges of Boulogne.

Tommy Vicini

Several of Vicini's post Hamburglar credits include Playing the Crypt Keeper in the Tales from the Crypt film Demon Knight, Star Trek: Insurrection.

William Saturno

In 2010, Saturno and Franco Rossi discovered what they believe to be a workroom of a Xultún record keeper.

Wojciech Szczęsny

Szczęsny trained at Agrykola Warsaw as a young player; soon, Legia Warsaw's goalkeeping coach, Krzysztof Dowhań, was so impressed with the young keeper, he allowed him to take part in a training camp with Legia's first team at the age of 15, joining them afterwards.


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