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  • noun Alternative spelling of leg spinner.

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Examples

  • Earlier this year Matthew Hayden wrote of the great leg-spinner's nicotine dependency, recounting the tale of the Australian boot camp before the 2006-07 Ashes: All we were allowed to take was a backpack, a sleeping bag, a hutchie field shelter sheet, a couple of shirts, two pairs of socks, undies and joggers.

    The Nursery End 2011

  • The leg-spinner Amit Mishra took two for 62 and the off spinners Harbhajan Singh and Suresh Raina took one wicket each.

    Praveen Kumar bowls India to 63-run Test win over West Indies 2011

  • As Ireland captain in 2007, he hit the winning six against Pakistan.18 years old 18 ODI capsDublin-born leg-spinner made his Ireland debut at 17, and played a key role in Ireland's World Twenty20 campaign last year, taking three for 16 against West Indies.

    Ireland's 11 heroes who beat England at the World Cup 2011

  • The leg-spinner Amit Mishra took two for 62 and the off spinners Harbhajan Singh and Suresh Raina took one wicket each.

    Praveen Kumar bowls India to 63-run Test win over West Indies 2011

  • It would be interesting to hear Shane Warne's commentary on Kumar, for essentially they were in the same trade, with the out-swinger and in-ducker the equivalent of leg-spinner and googly.

    Praveen Kumar's bowling secrets will be deciphered in time | Mike Selvey 2011

  • Legendary Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne—commenting on the way in which the challenges of test cricket didn't seem to have prompted any sort of evolution in the bowling of left-arm spinner Monty Pansesar—once said that the Englishman "hasn't so much played 33 test matches as the same test 33 times."

    Bangladesh's Promise Remains Unfulfilled Richard Lord 2011

  • But the hosts were certainly untroubled by the visitors' bowlers, including leg-spinner and ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year Devendra Bishoo .

    Within India's Win Lies Opportunity for Reflection Richard Lord 2011

  • Earlier this year Matthew Hayden wrote of the great leg-spinner's nicotine dependency, recounting the tale of the Australian boot camp before the 2006-07 Ashes: All we were allowed to take was a backpack, a sleeping bag, a hutchie field shelter sheet, a couple of shirts, two pairs of socks, undies and joggers.

    The Nursery End 2011

  • South Africa have been unusually cavalier, going with the peripatetic leg-spinner Imran Tahir as well as Robin Peterson.

    Mechanical bowling to blame for England breakdown | Vic Marks 2011

  • The West Indies captain Darren Sammy finished with four for 52 at Sabina Park in Jamaica and the leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo four for 65.

    Rahul Dravid century gives India fighting chance against West Indies 2011

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