Possible Clues:

• Like type of delivery from above reaching a fighting force
• Like many a baseball pitch
• One way to make deliveries -- pack too much?
• Unusual volume in very short time turning up, following regular delivery?
• Legal manner of bowling in cricket
• (Sportingly) with the hand brought forward above shoulder level
• Finished weapon — and method of delivery
• How one casts old commandos, screening detective series?
• Provide too many ways of gaining advantage in bowling technique
• The type of bowling for which Edgar Willsher was no-balled six times in a match at the Oval in 1862