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fine leg

British

noun

cricket
1. a fielding position between long leg and square leg
2. a fielder in this position

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A 66-run partnership ended when the left-handed Bethell on 32 helped a leg-side delivery from Oliver Davidson into the grateful hands of Brad Wheal at short fine leg.

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

Opener Phil Salt perished off the first ball from Sher Malla, top-edging the spinner to short fine leg.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

When Stokes returned late in the day, Tom Lawes picked out Ollie Pope in the leg-side ring before the aggressive Jacks found Jofra Archer at fine leg.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025

Sometimes I was down at fine leg and I took a couple of catches.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

Quite unostentatiously I vacated my position at fine leg and merged myself with the slips, who, together with point and cover, were bearing a course towards the labyrinthine ways of the kitchen-garden.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 5, 1917 by Various

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