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  • He gets one and off strike with a shot that can only de described as a hoick, all bottom hand from outside off to mid-on.
  • Only then can it be human to bare-faced, hoick ourselves for the clear.
  • And just as I wrote that Strauss dances down the pitch to Shoaib and whacks him back over his head with a hoick.
  • Saturninus took his own decision; in the time-honored move, he bent to hoick up his opponent's helmet by the chin, exposing his throat.
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