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leg before wicket
noun
- 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
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Indeed it was leg-before-wicket, as the poor man felt when he was assisted back to his tent.
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It was two hours before Jack had sorely lamed him in the hip, and the umpire had given it leg-before-wicket.
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His contentment increased when he got the next man leg-before-wicket with the total unaltered.
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