pacer

Example Sentences

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The right-arm medium pacer had figures of 5-2 at that point and also took a wicket with the first ball of his third over to make it six wickets in eight balls.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Shamim Hossain and Nurul Hasan have been picked as finishers, while a varied bowling attack will be led by left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman and fast bowler Taskin Ahmed.

From Barron's • Jan. 4, 2026

It was pacer Asitha Fernando who provided the tourists a breakthrough in the fifth over when he trapped opener Saim Ayub leg-before for six.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

Jo Gennari, who works for the NHS, was instrumental in setting up the group, after experiencing the "horrific" marathon in 2019, when she was a pacer for slower runners who got heckled by contractors.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2024

It would not take such a fast pacer long to get to Milton.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes