Di Venuto, still pulling and cutting solidly, went to his 100 off 139 balls, but Ben Stokes, fit again after a long absence with a dislocated finger, punched one fine back-foot drive through the covers before being given leg before to a Franks delivery which must have been very close to pitching outside leg-stump, and when Adams struck again to dismiss Blackwell, the innings was very much in the balance. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A couple of years later I was fielding at short-leg to a left‑arm seamer with a weakness for bowling leg-stump, long hops. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He gets four more two balls later, wristily flipping a leg-stump half-volley through midwicket. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I say filler; perhaps I should have typed another word that begins with 'fil' because that was an appalling over, full of leg-stump garbage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Afridi bowls a leg-stump full toss that Strauss pushes through the midwicket circle for another single after Morgan had taken one. ❋ Unknown (2010)
England, with one review left, took it and Morgan was reprieved by the third umpire, Marais Erasmus, as TV replays suggested the ball was missing leg-stump. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On replay things were less clear: Hawk-Eye suggested it might have sneaked past leg-stump and could have been a touch high. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It transpired that the ball pitched outside of Hussey's leg-stump by a few millimetres. ❋ Vic Marks In Brisbane (2010)
The ball may have pitched outside leg-stump and it was just possible to detect from the West Indian's body language that he thought this was the case. ❋ Vic Marks At Taunton (2010)
Without it there is little risk that he will get batsmen out lbw, because the ball is always pitching outside leg-stump. ❋ Duncan Fletcher (2010)
But there was time for Trott, that most diligently obsessive of practicers? last out of the nets on Tuesday, with the groundstaff waiting to shut up shop? to clip his first ball, a leg-stump half-volley from Asif (something of a collectors 'item) through midwicket. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The first six overs after the break produced 43 with Harmison's leg-stump line attractive to both left handers and Thorp's generous length suiting Lumb very nicely. ❋ Unknown (2010)
VVS Laxman and his magic-wand playing those majestic cover drives, stepping out to Warne and hitting the ball pitched on the rough, against the turn through covers—was alas, a thing of the past, as Warne turned one sharply from a good length on the leg-stump and Laxman prodded forward, missed the line, the ball turned sharply and clipped the off-stump. ❋ Chirayu (2004)
He sent in the balls at such a pace that they came on the wicket like battering-rams, and their twist was so great that they would pitch about a mile off and appear to be wides, when all of a sudden they would spin in on a treacherous curve, right on to a fellow's leg-stump. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I did "let out with a vengeance," as Tom Atkins said on my return to the tent, for I "let in" the ball, which, coming in with a swish, snapped my leg-stump in two, sending the pieces flying sky high in the air! ❋ Unknown (N/A)
And, when one evening I uprooted his leg-stump twice in succession, he said: ❋ Ernest Raymond (1931)
You can't play a yorker on the leg-stump with a thin walking-stick if your mind is occupied elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (1928)
And the leg-stump yorkers of James, the elder (by a minute) of the two Ashbys, were achieving a growing reputation in Charchester cricket circles. ❋ Unknown (1928)
One had not to be a cricketer oneself to appreciate his perfect command of pitch and break, his beautifully easy action, which never varied with the varying pace, his great ball on the leg-stump -- his dropping head-ball -- in a word, the infinite ingenuity of that versatile attack. ❋ Unknown (1902)
