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lbw

abbreviation for

  1. leg before wicket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The equation was 23 from 21 balls by the time Powell fell lbw to Turner, which was achieved with relative ease by Rutherford and Roston Chase to complete a perfectly-executed chase.

From BBC

The Windies skipper reached his seventh T20 international fifty from 36 balls but just when he and Shepherd would have hoped to accelerated, the latter fell lbw after he was deceived by a superbly disguised Overton slower ball.

From BBC

Even those with greater experience, such as the 30-year-old Overton, looked rusty, as the Surrey player was dismissed lbw for a first-ball duck by Motie.

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He was bizarrely dismissed lbw playing no shot as England's slump continued in Rawalpindi.

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Ben Stokes' brain fade to play no shot and be lbw to Noman, followed by Jamie Smith's wild charge at Sajid were particularly ugly.

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