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Others waddled, Dominic Cork bustled, Richard Ellison scampered, Derek Pringle pranced doing a kind of human dressage, and the more rotund were as chest-on as an old maid breasting the billows off Cromer beach in early spring.
Praveen Kumar's rare style of swing bowling is as bold as it is old | Rob Bagchi 2011
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Jogging in off some 10 paces, he had a whippy chest-on action that looked reminiscent of the West Indian all-rounder Dwayne Smith, and enough strength in his powerful torso to fire it down at 78mph.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The chest-on delivery is all the rage now, but his long delivery stride, with its dragged back foot was from the era of Fred Trueman.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Derek Pringle 2011
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Jogging in off some 10 paces, he had a whippy chest-on action that looked reminiscent of the West Indian all-rounder Dwayne Smith, and enough strength in his powerful torso to fire it down at 78mph.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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