The Little Master almost always hits the ball with little effort with a classic straight bat.

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Jamie How played in a more circumspect manner than his colleagues, but even a straight bat could not negate Anderson in the form he was in.

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This means the batsman has presented a very straight bat on their follow through, so straight you can see the name of the company that made it.

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You feel you know Flight Sergeant RHJ Harris a little because his mum and dad chose to record that he kept a straight bat and played the game.

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But the momentum was maintained by Shafiq, who displayed an elegant straight bat throughout and, when launching Swann for six, one of the most expansive follow throughs of recent years.

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Though the policymakers will be playing a straight bat here, saying a multi-lateral, co-ordinated approach is the only way, two top UK economists I've interviewed - one from the free market wing and one Keynesian - are remarkably close to saying it's time to forget worrying about protectionism, and for the mainstream to start responding to the demands for national solutions.

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"My approach when I went into bat was to play as straight as possible, " Samaraweera said.

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Will was in an enviable position, women bought his CD because they hoped he was straight and gay men supported him because they thought he might "bat for their team".

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Granderson, who will be 32 by opening day, has been a fast straight-line runner who uses his speed to chase down balls, but who sometimes makes imperfect reads off the bat.

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