tail-ender

"It was a very good ball," Muralitharan says of his historic delivery to the Indian tail-ender Pragyan Ojha.

Muttiah Muralitharan out to finish on a high at the World Cup | Donald McRae 2011

One instance believed to have been reported to the committee concerned a tail-ender batting with a runner, who subsequently opened the bowling shortly afterwards.

Batsmen must stand alone as another quirk of the game does a runner | Mike Selvey 2011

Dravid made 112 in India's 252, with the tail-ender Amit Mishra their next highest scorer with 28.

Rahul Dravid century gives India fighting chance against West Indies 2011

One instance believed to have been reported to the committee concerned a tail-ender batting with a runner, who subsequently opened the bowling shortly afterwards.

Batsmen must stand alone as another quirk of the game does a runner | Mike Selvey 2011

Dravid made 112 in India's 252, with the tail-ender Amit Mishra their next highest scorer with 28.

Rahul Dravid century gives India fighting chance against West Indies 2011

Put in to bat by Strauss on the easiest of the three surfaces this series, India lost the wicket of Virender Sehwag to the first ball he faced on his return to the side and by the end of the 40th over, with Dhoni propped on his bat at the non-striker's end, the tail-ender Amit Mishra was walking back to the dressing room with the scoreboard showing 111 for seven.

India 224, England 84-0 | Third Test day one match report 2011

His battting at test level is that of a tail-ender averaging 15 at best.

The Ashes 2010: England have work to do after the euphoria | Duncan Fletcher 2010

England had arrived knowing that they required four more wickets, but notionally three for the crippled Ryan Harris was never going to bat: no tail-ender in a surgical boot has ever batted out more than five sessions to secure a draw and they were not about to find out.

Ashes 2010: England destroy Australia in fourth Test to retain urn 2010

When you've won as often as these Yankees have since 1996, sometimes you lose focus when you're playing a tail-ender in May.

USATODAY.com - Yankees never break a sweat 2001

Naturally, he was not popular with his comrades; in all games he was pushed aside, and disregarded, being invariably the tail-ender in every pastime in which leaders "chose sides"; his counsels were slighted as worse than weightless, and all his opinions instantly hooted.

Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907