powerplays

The game's unique feature are its "powerplays," which are special actions that you can trigger to hinder your competitors as you race.

PCWorld 2010

Fielding teams nearly always react to powerplays by bringing on their best bowlers.

Quicker pitch should suit England's bowlers against South Africa | Duncan Fletcher 2011

When powerplays were introduced, the onus of when to use it belonged solely with the fielding team, which made things fairly straightforward: Finish them off as early in the innings as possible, so the fielding captain has the option of plenty of men on the boundary towards the end of the innings when the batsmen attempt to accelerate.

Powerplaying into trouble Jonathan Clegg 2011

"People are losing games in powerplays rather than winning them."

Powerplaying into trouble Jonathan Clegg 2011

But after the 2007 World Cup in West Indies, the rule books were tweaked to allow the batting team to invoke one of the powerplays, a development that has changed the peculiar dynamic of one-day cricket.

Powerplaying into trouble Jonathan Clegg 2011

Even making allowance for having to bowl in the powerplays, as he did at either end of the innings here, that is consistently and worryingly profligate.

Ian Bell helps England stroll past Bangladesh at Trent Bridge Mike Selvey at Trent Bridge 2010

They hire people and promote based soley on how many powerplays or whatever the the flavor of the monthj is for sales gimicks.

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I think the powerplays would have dictated the result, if we had of been able to get some runs there then we probably would have been able to get the result and if Australia take wickets it would have been tough to come from that.

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However you term them, they have grown extremely skeptical of all organizations, seeing them as ripe for powerplays and corruption.

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