They couldn't play because the pitch was waterlogged.

因球场泡水他们未能进行比赛。

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Double kill: A play in which two outs are made with one pitch.

双杀：用一次投球使二人同时出局。

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His message plays on sporting metaphors: "on the pitch you can play hard and take risks to score."

他借用体育运动的隐喻，传递了这样的信息：“在球场上，你可以不择手段，冒着一切风险进球。”

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Why does a trumpet--If I asked a trumpet to play this pitch, a trumpet played, and then I asked an oboe to play it, the sound would be very different.

小号为什么...,如果我用小号演奏这个音高,小号演奏后,我又让双簧管来演奏,声音会很不一样

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But Zander de Bruyn was 36 not out when shadows across the pitch ended play five overs early.

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With only six Malawian players on the pitch, play resumed and striker Sipho Mumbi scored the winner for Zambia.

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"Honestly I did not think in the morning that the pitch would play that badly, " stand-in skipper Mahela Jayawardene said.

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