Example sentences of "down the leg [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resistance was broken when a tiring Ratnayeke was superbly caught by the wicketkeeper Ian Healy , one-handed down the leg side , for 75 after flicking once too often at Greg Campbell . |
| 2 | A large proportion of balls went down the leg side , which was not the ideal means of curtailing the driving of Boon , Briers and Whitaker . |
| 3 | Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record . |
| 4 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |
| 5 | Hadlee professes great admiration for New Zealand 's wicketkeepers of modern times , the late Ken Wadsworth , and the incumbent record-holder , Ian Smith : ‘ But James had that ability to stand up for the one down the leg side , and the bails would be off in a flash . |
| 6 | Poor umpiring decisions against Smith , Hick and Salisbury , all adjudged lbw to balls drifting down the leg side , did not help England 's cause in the first innings . |
| 7 | Caught down the leg side , he was n't going to walk , he waited for umpire Bird , and that 's the Lawrence delighted with England of course too , DaSilva , caught down the leg side , a good catch there by Russell and Sri Lanka now a hundred and nineteen for four and DaSilva is out caught Russell , bowled Lawrence for eighteen . |
| 8 | Caught down the leg side , he was n't going to walk , he waited for umpire Bird , and that 's the Lawrence delighted with England of course too , DaSilva , caught down the leg side , a good catch there by Russell and Sri Lanka now a hundred and nineteen for four and DaSilva is out caught Russell , bowled Lawrence for eighteen . |
| 9 | All he 's worried about is getting wickets , and he 's , as I think I said yesterday he starts to feel a bit frustrated with his lax control , the ball flows all over the place and then somehow or other he 's got at the , the real quality batsmen in the opposition side , he 's got DaSilva out , might have been a slightly lucky dismissal caught down the leg side and he 's got him out and he 's done that in every match he 's played , he 's given away runs pretty rapidly , but he keeps getting vital wickets as well . |
| 10 | Away he goes again with those huge boots of his , steaming in now to , that 's pitched up , raps him on the pad , ball go , going down the leg side . |