Sentence examples for fast leg from inspiring English sources
Eventually the England captain, Douglas Jardine, hit on a solution: deploying a method known first as "fast leg theory", and later, and more evocatively, as "Bodyline", England's fast bowlers would intimidate Australia's batsmen by aiming balls directly at their chests and heads.
When you have fast leg breaks like that it's going to be problematic for any batsman".
Hence, the inertia of the leg should be small as much as possible to achieve fast leg movement and high energy efficiency.
English writers used the term fast leg theory.
Thereafter, under the guidance of England's combative captain Douglas Jardine, the fast leg theory or bodyline bowling attack was developed.
England won the game by 10 wickets; Larwood's match figures were 10 for 124, with only limited use of fast leg theory.
His late in-swing troubled the best of batsmen, and so did the leg-cutters or fast leg-breaks that were his trademark.
Much more likely, though, was that Shahid Afridi's fast leg-spin and Saeed Ajmal's off breaks and doosras posed the kind of problems which associate member countries are simply not used to facing on a regular basis.
Sharp eyes, fast legs, good hand-eye coordination and experience all have something to do with it, but until recently scientists didn't know how baseball players tracked baseballs or how lions track their prey, or how a frog is able to track a fly.
The former Australian player Tom Horan wrote: "There is no bowler in England who has such a fast leg-break, and on a fine, firm pitch many a batsman has saved his wicket by his legs or body in opposing Trott's deliveries".
It's important to have a clear head and fast legs.
