pummelling

Ministers are urging Israel to hold back its attacks across Lebanon, just as through the last 12 months they have asked Britain's ally to stop pummelling Gaza.

Instead, he opted to get the game done in a hurry – pummelling the ball both sides of the wicket as he hit a remarkable 20 fours and five sixes in a career-best ODI knock.

After making landfall, the typhoon weakened to a severe tropical storm, but it is still pummelling its way north-east.

But he lost his seat in 2015, when his party took an electoral pummelling.

Painful enough without knowing the early morning alarm call will have come with the jet-lag feeling of a pummelling and late-night home journey from Leicester.