chanceless

The game came to life after a chanceless first 20 minutes.

His innings, over four and a half hours, was not chanceless.

- In comparison with, or when going against, this person, you are chanceless.

A few days before his chanceless century, Dean expressed a wish 'to go on and make bigger scores.

Smith scored 122 not out in a chanceless innings.

And while the first half was scoreless it was certainly not chanceless.

The opening exchanges were fairly even if largely chanceless.

Trego moved to a chanceless century off 187 balls, with seven fours and a six.

He remained at the wicket until the final over, scoring 117 runs in a chanceless innings.

Sarwan arrived at the crease on the second evening and went chanceless in recording his 297-ball double.

Predominantly cautious batting was interspersed with some chanceless boundaries and singles.

Prior's personal reward just before the close was a 95-ball 50 which needed some early luck but was nonetheless chanceless, and very valuable.

Pietersen's innings was both powerful and chanceless, yet Australia spurned one opportunity to remove him.

But they set about the bowling with gusto and put on a chanceless, nay priceless 50 partnership.

The innings was chanceless and, though the odd one passed the bat, there was nothing untoward.

Soon, he was friendless and chanceless.

Left-handers both, the pair dominated the opening day of the match making chanceless hundreds after Cook won the toss and batted.

In this case, it was Eoin Morgan, who scored a chanceless hundred of equal audacity.

Standing upright and still, oblivious to all around him, and playing with the straightest of blades, his was a chanceless innings.

Hill was dropped once - on 74, at first slip by Peter Forrest - but White produced a chanceless innings.

Smith reached his chanceless half-century in the second-last over before the break, from 79 balls with six fours and two sixes.

Both innings were chanceless but then New Zealand's weary bowling attack were not creating many anyway.

Prince batted for almost five hours, faced 216 balls and hit 10 fours in his patient and chanceless innings.

The game went through a dour, chanceless phase, before Liverpool pushed for a second goal in the period before half-time.

It's been a chanceless innings from Jonassen, who has been the only batsman to get to grips with this pitch.