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leg before wicket

noun

  1. cricket a manner of dismissal on the grounds that a batsman has been struck on the leg by a bowled ball that otherwise would have hit the wicket lbw
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Indeed it was leg-before-wicket, as the poor man felt when he was assisted back to his tent.

It was two hours before Jack had sorely lamed him in the hip, and the umpire had given it leg-before-wicket.

His contentment increased when he got the next man leg-before-wicket with the total unaltered.

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