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  • Five balls later, Neil Dexter, who had got off the mark with an edge through third slip, pushed at an off-cutter and the ball was caught low down by Jim Allenby at first slip to give Harris his 48th wicket in the championship this season.

    County cricket - as it happened! 2010

  • After Simon Kerrigan had taken the last four wickets in Essex's first innings to complete figures of six for 74, Lancashire were quickly in trouble at 18 for two when the impressive Maurice Chambers plucked out Ashwell Prince's off stump with a classic off-cutter.

    Sajid Mahmood to Lancashire's rescue 2010

  • A Chris Tremlett off-cutter ducked inside a full-blooded Watson (nine) drive to crash into his stumps before Ajmal Shahzad trapped Marsh (six) lbw

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • The 24-year-old found impressive movement off the pitch highlighted by a searing off-cutter that uprooted Ponting's middle stump.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012

  • It was an off-cutter that nipped back a touch, but White was guilty of just planting his foot down.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • England made the immediate inroads they needed with the ball when a Tremlett off-cutter ducked inside a full-blooded Watson (nine) drive to crash into his stumps before Shahzad trapped Marsh (six) lbw playing across the line.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • India then lost Rahul Dravid, who turned 39 earlier this week, when he was bowled for the fourth time in his past five innings before Sachin Tendulkar, who had confidently stroked Siddle to the straight boundary for his first three scoring shots, played outside a Ryan Harris off-cutter to be trapped lbw.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012

  • A Chris Tremlett off-cutter ducked inside a full-blooded Watson (nine) drive to crash into his stumps before Ajmal Shahzad trapped Marsh (six) lbw playing across the line.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The next ball is a nasty, lifting off-cutter that Watson desperately inside-edges onto his rump.

    The Guardian World News Rob Smyth 2011

  • A Chris Tremlett off-cutter ducked inside a full-blooded Watson (nine) drive to crash into his stumps before Ajmal Shahzad trapped Marsh (six) lbw playing across the line.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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