They fail to cross the gain line and don't kick enough from bad ball.
Perhaps Headingley was a bit sporting but that said you still had to bowl the right style of ball to get the lift and a bad ball was still a bad ball.
If there was only one really memorable shot played, a dreamy on-drive for four off Onions, it was a classic example of how building an innings in Test cricket is all about high-quality defence and putting away the bad ball.
Sometimes when the weather is bad I try to do too much with the ball and hit some bad shots.
"Sometimes, when we hold the ball too much, we can't recover, take bad shots, throw the ball away, " Smith said.
The Cardinals look as if they have eight players on the floor, what with all the arms waving and bodies smothering whoever has the bad luck to have the ball, and when one guy sits down, there's one just as physical right there to take his place.
She slapped her right thigh with her glove as the yellow softball rocketed toward a teammate catching the ball, which is bad news for the opposition in China.
Lance Allred remembers pre-season tryouts for the Stampede, when bad shoes literally ripped the skin off the ball of his foot.
There was time for just one more ball before play was halted for bad light, with 34 overs still to be bowled.
"Once they took the shine off the new ball they put away all the bad balls that were bowled to them... that was the big difference between the two sides, " Burdett added.
With the light fading, and after a previous short delay for bad light, Vaughan opted to take the new ball.
Only two deliveries had been sent down after the re-start when bad light stopped play but Sidebottom's first ball after the resumption knocked back Tim Southee's middle stump - the 19-year-old playing across the line to a full-pitch ball that swung back at him a touch.
They even added a combined three assists, not bad considering it's rare either gives up the ball for anyone.
Unless, of course, you believe the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a billiards cue is a good guy with a Wiffle ball bat.
He'll take the ball anywhere on the park whether he's playing good, bad or indifferent.
Things went from bad to worse for Britain after the break as Amat latched onto a loose ball to score again.
Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott both fell to the new ball and Andrew Strauss became Wayne Parnell's first Test victim before bad light halted play.
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We all know that there is TONS of bad info out there about HDTV and the digital transition, but Circuit City seems to be on the ball.
"It was a bad shot I'm not making excuses, but he did get very unlucky with how the ball bounced, " Harmon said.
It then went from bad to worse for Bergamasco as his horrendous pass eluded Gonzalo Garcia and Goode kicked ahead before Flutey gathered the ball and went over.
And it went from bad to worse for the visitors as, with just seconds remaining of the half remaining, Hinton thumped the ball down field rather than kick to touch.
They had got off to a bad start when Vasbert Drakes bowled opener Hannan Sarkar for 13 in the fifth over of the day with a ball that kept low.
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