1862 Baily's Monthly Mag. Oct. 201 John Lillywhite..also ‘No balled’ the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh delivered by Willsher, who thereupon walked off the ground.

1867 G. H. Selkirk Guide to Cricket Ground iv. 60 Dean, as umpire, no balled Mr. C. D. Marsham three times in one over.

1878 Sat. Rev. 16 Nov. 617 The new destructive invention would be internationally ‘no-balled’.

1933 L. G. Crawley Let. 27 Jan. in M. Williams Way to Lord's (1983) ii. 56 To empower the umpire to ‘no-ball’ a bowler for pitching his deliveries short.

1959 Oxf. Mail 2 Feb. 8/7 Rorke..lost a lot of his fearsomeness after being rightly no-balled because of his long drag, called over-stepping in Australia.

1989 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 3 July 5/2 Beer advertisements featuring the Australian cricket team should be no-balled by the Advertising Standards Authority.

1993 Cricket World 3 Apr. 44/2 Another show of dissent, this time in India where Phil Tufnell's show of childish petulance over the umpire no-balling him.

1982 M. Brearley Phoenix from Ashes v. 60/2 I was glad that Willis and Dilley chose the other end since they are both prone to no-ball.

1992 Wisden Cricket Monthly (BNC) Aug. 2 Aqib continued to drop short, once no-balling by some distance, and seemed close to complete loss of personal control.

1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/1 If he [sc. the bowler] delivers the ball with his hinder foot over the bowling-crease, the umpire shall call no ball.

1774 Laws of Cricket (Ridley) 17 If the Bowler’s Foot is not behind the Bowling-Crease, and within the Return-Crease, when he delivers the Ball, the Umpire unasked must call No ball.

1825 Derby Mercury 7 Sept. 3/2 The Langley Umpire..instead of calling ‘No Ball’ when the ball was delivered, which he is required to do by the laws, did not do so, till it touched the striker's [printed strikers's] bat.

1862 Baily's Monthly Mag. Oct. 201 ‘No ball!’ roared out John Lillywhite; and the ball was prettily cut for a 4.

1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 21 ‘No ball,’ he shouted..‘it seemed to me that you chucked that time.’

1986 Wisden Cricket Monthly Aug. 30/3 When R. J. Shastri was given out lbw in India's second innings, England had three fielders behind square on the leg side, but no call of no-ball was made.

2002 Daily Mirror 31 May 66/5 Hoggard should have claimed this third wicket when he rearranged Hashan Tillekeratne's stumps only for umpire Sri Venkat to call no-ball.

1830 Brighton Gaz. 22 July Wide balls..2. No balls..2.

1845 W. Denison Cricketer's Compan. 1844 119 If the bowler deliver a ‘No ball’, or a ‘Wide Ball’, the striker..shall not be put out except by running out.

1868 C. Box Theory & Pract. Cricket 153 The first mention of No ball on the score-sheet occurs in the year 1830 in a match between Marylebone and Middlesex at Lord's.

1888 Athenæum 21 July 89/1 Why should the bowler in each instance deliver a palpable no-ball?

1907 J. Galsworthy Country House iii. vii. 278 D'you mean to say that wasn't a no-ball? He bowled me with a no-ball.

1955 Times 6 Aug. 4/3 The loping run, all arms and legs, and the no-ball were not forgotten.

1983 B. Willis & A. Lee Captain's Diary ii. 30 I went through a very bad period of bowling countless no-balls.

2001 Times 24 July (Sports Daily) i. 2/2 They were helped by Kirby whose no-balls allowed them three free hits.

1922 J. Kettelwell Beaver 58 If both players cry aloud simultaneously it is a ‘no ball’.

1939 John o' London's Weekly 9 June 361/2 He has two men who are related and can pass for each other, which..has been considered a ‘no-ball’ in detective fiction for a long time.