Sentence examples for leg before wicket from inspiring English sources
noun
An instance of a batsman being out due to the leg before wicket law.
Jonathan Trott reached 70 before playing across the line to a skidding delivery from Kumar and being trapped leg before wicket.
Was Alastair Cook leg before wicket or had the ball struck him outside the line?
In a freakish end to the innings, he was dropped twice and dismissed leg before wicket in the space of four deliveries.
A tendency to plant his front foot and play around his front pad has been exploited by England's seamers, with four of his dismissals leg before wicket.
The Guardian's cricket correspondent excitedly tells me that an England bowler has just "taken two wickets" - and, whoa, there's just been a "leg before wicket".
After 28 deliveries for two runs he missed a straight ball from Ajmal and was out leg before wicket on review.
A statement said: "The ball should have been deemed dead when the batsman (James Taylor) was given out leg before wicket (lbw).
He bowled O'Reilly and trickled Wall leg-before-wicket.
It has set a record for the number of leg-before-wicket (LBW) dismissals a devilishly complex law of the game in a three-match series.
But decisions on leg-before-wicket, the most mysterious and controversial form of dismissal, are still left to the man in the middle.
It began as a technology that could help, in cricket matches, tell whether a shot was leg-before-wicket.
