square leg

or square-leg

noun

, Cricket.

1. the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
2. the fielder occupying this position.

square leg

noun

1. a fielding position on the on side approximately at right angles to the batsman
2. a person who fields in this position

Word History and Origins

Origin of square leg¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

With a wonderful flick of the elbow he chops the ball exactly between square leg and point.

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Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg.

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At the second attempt he hooked it over square-leg's head on to the fairway of the eighteenth hole.

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The simple square leg without taper is one of the distinctive marks of Chippendale's time.

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Roland only had three balls altogether, and off one of these he managed to get a square leg boundary.

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