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leg break
noun[ C ]
sports specialized(alsoleg-break)uk /ˈleɡ ˌbreɪk/ us /ˈleɡ ˌbreɪk/
in cricket, an occasion when the ball is bowled (= thrown to the batter) slowly and after it hits the ground it moves from the left to the right for a right-handedbatter or from right to left for a left-handed batter:
Although mainly a batter, she has been practising her leg breaks.
He misjudged a viciously spinning leg-break and was clean bowled.
Compare
off break
As well as getting a lot of spin off the surface with his leg breaks, he is also drifting the ball nicely in the air.
The delivery looked like a leg break but went straight on.
A leg-break bowler is a useful bowler in all forms of cricket.
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