To try to stay entertained, some kids used those as makeshift bowling balls.
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Bench coach Bob Geren brought two of his own bowling balls, including one decorated to look like a giant baseball.
Teams also compete to see who can find the "best" garbage -- a poker-like game in which two bowling balls tops three refrigerators and a message in a bottle trumps everything.
You may have seen Mr. Oreck in TV commercials over the years, comically demonstrating the power of his vacuums by sucking a toupee from his scalp or bowling balls from the floor.
While its graphics are even less sophisticated than the Wii's, it's even smaller and cheaper than Nintendo's product and the controllers are closer replicas of their real-world counterparts, such as bowling balls, tennis rackets, and boxing gloves.
After bowling two balls at the left-hander that swung into him, he then moved one the other way and Butcher, on 42, edged his drive straight to first slip.
Former Australian captain and match referee Barry Jarman even placed a protractor next to a picture of Murali, apparently feeling that a bent arm alone demonstrated that he was bowling no-balls.
Firing a mixture of balls from a specially-made bowling machine he found the white balls deviated from a straight path much more than the red ones.
Anderson and Bresnan have been in Twenty20 mode and used to bowling more variety with slow balls and off-cutters - they haven't been bowling seam upright with straight wrists.
With a cricket ball in his hand he seems intent on bowling as many short balls as he can to help intimidate you in the contest.
The allegations first appeared on 29 August in the News of the World newspaper, which accused skipper Salman Butt, Asif and Amir of accepting money in return for bowling deliberate no-balls.
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Amir was detained for six months in a young offenders institution after admitting bowling two intentional no-balls at Lord's.
Pietersen paced his innings of 58 from 38 deliveries perfectly after Luke Wright, the Man of the Match for his 34 from 16 balls and tidy bowling, set about Pakistan early.
This uncomplicated philosophy saw Henderson smashing sixes into row Z as well as bowling unplayable yorkers and slower balls disguised better than Carlos the Jackal in Middlesex's four-wicket win over 2007 champions Kent at the Rose Bowl in July.
It wasn't Peter Moores that was missing straight balls in India or bowling short and wide at Virender Sehwag, it was the players.
South Africa's batsmen were put on the back foot early on by some good England bowling - Graeme Smith needing 13 balls to score his first run as Ryan Sidebottom started the match with a maiden, having been recalled for the rested James Anderson.
Riaz took 5-63 in the first innings of his debut and claimed seven wickets in total in his two Test matches, bowling seven wides and 13 no-balls.
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Wayne Parnell, the exciting new weapon in South Africa's pace arsenal, wound up with 3-14, bowling Broad and James Anderson with consecutive balls - and all in all it had been a very satisfactory showing from Graeme Smith's bowlers.
Langeveldt smashed 24 off 17 balls as he and Clare punished some wayward bowling to collect 58 from seven overs until the South African carved Carter to third man, where Ian Salisbury held a swirling catch.
With Luke Wright he cleverly dismantled the West Indian bowling attack in their partnership of 95 in only 56 balls, while his invaluable 45 against his old countrymen was more of an accumulative innings in which he manoeuvred the ball into gaps and ran busily between the wickets.
On any given weeknight, there might be young boys practicing with cones and tennis balls, or teenagers from the Rising Stars team bowling to each other and fine-tuning their swings with a pitching machine.
However, Kent's loss was Middlesex's gain as the county with no previous aptitude for Twenty20 stunned the defending champions with a nerve-wracking last-ball victory at the Rose Bowl in July, with Henderson bowling the decisive last over as well as smashing 43 from 33 balls.
Yuvraj Singh scratched around for three off 21 balls before he was caught at mid-wicket off the bowling of Chaminda Vaas.
Soon after the re-start Moin Ashraf, whose 5-32 was Yorkshire's best bowling display in the Championship this season, took two wickets in three balls.
Broad was bowling with great venom and accuracy, and Fidel Edwards lasted just three balls before splicing a vicious throat ball to Tim Bresnan, who took a good catch in the gully.
Consequently, someone like Prosper Utseya can get away with an ODI bowling average of 47.30 because he bowls a lot of dot balls, conceding just 4.30 runs an over, but he's not much of a threat in Tests.
On the plus side, Hussey immediately served up a reminder of his value to the side with an assured 54 from 43 balls, while Clarke looked in fine touch as he manoeuvred the Kenyan bowling around the park.
The all-rounder only lasted two balls at the crease after he chipped straight at Ricky Ponting at short midwicket from the bowling of McDonald.
The batting performance of all-rounder Watson was a positive for Australia , but afterwards he said the team needed to work on their bowling after allowing Bangladesh to plunder 181-7, in which Saqibul Hasan smashed 54 off 29 balls.
The biggest plus for Bangladesh was the bowling of Robiul Islam, who looked to be the first Bangladeshi quick to be able to put six balls in the same place since Mashrafe Mortaza's brief, injury-curtailed ascendancy.
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