leggie
Britishnoun
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a leg break
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a bowler of leg breaks
Example Sentences
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However, McCullum - who took over the white-ball side prior to the India tour - chose to select a seamer-dominated line-up with one front-line spinner in leggie Rashid, backed by part-timer Liam Livingstone.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
To suggest it has been a straightforward trajectory from there to becoming Australia's most successful finger spinner - only leggie Shane Warne has taken more wickets - would be wide of the mark.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023
The leggie has added a face-full of sunscreen to his balding head, sunglasses and bouncy action.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2020
Smith into his fifth over, Vettori and McCullum manage five singles from the over, while the blond leggie tosses another one up outside off stump which is signalled as wide.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2011
They left out a front-line spinner who has two recent centuries to his name, Nathan Hauritz, for a No6 they kidded themselves was a Test leggie, Steve Smith.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2010
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