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pace bowler

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noun

  1. cricket a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly

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Pace bowler Josh Tongue emerged with his reputation enhanced, while Jacob Bethell's coming-of-age century in the final Test was a belated silver lining.

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The tactic again denied Tongue, England's best pace bowler in the series, the use of the new ball.

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As has become a Sydney tradition, the fifth Test will have a pink theme for the Jane McGrath Foundation, a charity created in memory of the late wife of legendary Australia pace bowler Glenn McGrath.

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The tourists will make at least one change to the XI that played in Melbourne after pace bowler Gus Atkinson was ruled out because of a hamstring injury.

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By nudging down Wasim, Starc became the most successful left-arm pace bowler in Test history.

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