long leg

noun

cricket
1. a fielding position on the leg side near the boundary almost directly behind the batsman's wicket
2. a fielder in this position

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Joe Root replaced Crawley and became the fifth batter to reach 13,000 Test runs when he moved to 33, then pulled Muzarabani to long leg.

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Ben Duckett, dropped on 23 by Latham, took on the short ball after lunch, only to hook the pacey O'Rourke to long leg and fall for 46.

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Brook can be excused for his flying drop of Jamal at gully, but Shoaib Bashir’s miss of the same man at long leg was a dolly.

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Entrusted with the first over of the day, 20-year-old Hull had Dhananjaya de Silva hook to long leg for 69 then pinned Vishwa leg-before.

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Captain Stokes pulled the same bowler to long leg and Smith edged off-spinner Sinclair.

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