Definitions
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- n. a shot played, on one knee, with a horizontal bat, hitting the ball hard into the air on the leg side
- v. to play such a shot
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even the crows are silent.10th over: South Africa 51-0 Amla 22, Smith 26 Graeme Smith misses a slog-sweep at Razzak and is given out LBW by Daryl Harper, but he decides to review the decision.
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Cook took nine balls to get off the mark but acceleration came with two pristine boundaries off Mohamed Hafeez, one a hammered slog-sweep of Haydenesque severity.
Alastair Cook leads way with another ton as England beat Pakistan
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Borrowed, as the name suggests, from baseball, it involves the batsman reversing his entire stance and swapping his hands around on the bat handle after the bowler has delivered the ball, then hitting a left-handed slog-sweep over what would normally be the off side but has magically become the leg. Suffice it to say: it's very hard to do.
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Then he gets to his 50 with a square slog-sweep for four that beats the man out there. 50 off 40 balls with seven fours and a six.
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Cook went to slog-sweep the debutant left-arm spinner Michael Beer, and was caught at mid-on, exactly the same mistake
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Hughes welcomes Herath to the action with a beautifully-timed slog-sweep which clears the ropes at mid-wicket.
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His seventh-wicket partner Tredwell went in a run-out mix-up over a single, and Wright eventually holed out on the slog-sweep in Bishoo's final over.
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James Tredwell went in a run-out mix-up over a single, and Wright eventually holed out on the slog-sweep in Bishoo's final over.
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The batting powerplay had been a near irrelevance, in which England also lost Samit Patel - another who failed to clear with a slog-sweep at Ashwin three for 38 - and Aaron finished the innings by bowling Bresnan with a beauty.
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But at least if Surrey open their bowling with a spinner, Kieswetter may have Marcus Trescothick as an opening partner to slog-sweep him out of the attack.
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