short leg

noun

1. cricket

   1. a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket

   2. a fielder in this position

Example Sentences

Karun Nair was greeted by three slips, a gully, a short leg and a leg gully, the most popular man in north London.

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Another inside edge off the bat of West Indies skipper Roston Chase then popped up into the grateful hands of Sam Konstas at short leg.

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Bennett could not repeat his heroics, trapped leg before by Gus Atkinson, while Craig Ervine lobbed Tongue to short leg to leave Zimbabwe 30-2, still 270 behind.

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There was the Root drop off Stokes and, later, he fended Tongue to the swooping Pope at short leg off a no-ball.

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In a shrewd move from Stokes, Pope had only just been posted at short leg when Ervine obliged with the simplest of catches.

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