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2 unusual facts about Leg theory


Leg theory

In England, at around the same time Fred Root was one of the main proponents of the same tactic.

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In 1930, England captain Douglas Jardine, together with Nottinghamshire's captain Arthur Carr and his bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, developed a variant of leg theory in which the bowlers bowled fast, short-pitched balls that would rise into the batsman's body, together with a heavily stacked ring of close fielders on the leg side.



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