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When you are playing off the back foot you have to pounce on anything slightly short and look to work it to the leg-side or to cut him to the off if it is a doosra.

Muralitharan the game-changer spells more danger for England | Duncan Fletcher 2011

Lancashire's Liverpudlian/Australian opener had played beautifully on a tricky pitch to reach 98 at tea, then tucked away another leg-side single, only to receive an unplayable lifter in the next over from Paul Franks which he did well to edge to Chris Read.

Nottinghamshire v Lancashire | County Championship match report 2011

Strauss is out and England are one down.25th over: England 47-0 Strauss 26, Cook 16 need 324 to win Cook, having made it quite clear that he isn't going to play at anything outside his off-stump even if he was holding a bargepole rather than a bat, suckers Gul into bowling a straight one at leg stump, which Cook whips away for three to the leg-side.

Pakistan v England – day four live! | Andy Bull and Rob Smyth 2012

From 41 for two Glamorgan slipped to 54 for three, Mark Cosgrove holing out to long-on off Waller having scored just nine from 15 balls, and with Kartik virtually unplayable on a spin-friendly surface Mark Wallace found himself stumped down the leg-side to leave Glamorgan 72 for four.

Glamorgan 98; Somerset 99-5 | Friends Life t20 match report 2011

The captain, Darren Sammy, countered, launching Harbhajan for three leg-side sixes off consecutive balls.

Praveen Kumar bowls India to 63-run Test win over West Indies 2011

The captain, Darren Sammy, countered, launching Harbhajan for three leg-side sixes off consecutive balls.

Praveen Kumar bowls India to 63-run Test win over West Indies 2011

Danza Hyatt and Samuels stabilised the innings, although it took them a further 10.3 overs to advance the score on to 42 before Hyatt clipped a leg-side ball from Abhimanyu Mithun to Parthiv for 20.

West Indies 260-5, India 244 | Third ODI match report 2011

This assault should not be considered unexpected from someone who can sit so deep in the crease – behind it even when he goes outside off-stump – and bludgeon over the leg-side so that the game almost transmutes into baseball.

New Zealand's boundary bounty should not be demeaned by cries of 'fix' 2011

Rampaul's leg-side delivery clipped the batsman on the pad on its way through to Ramdin but the umpire Tony Hill inexplicably raised his finger.

West Indies 260-5, India 244 | Third ODI match report 2011

Much of the cricket literature of my youth was still besotted by the Golden Age, the period from 1890-1914 when artistry flourished and innovators such as KS Ranjitsinhji added the late cut and an array of leg-side shots to the strokeplay canon.

VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age 2011