Batting (cricket) square-leg rather than to mid-wicket. It is almost exclusively used against reasonably full-pitched balls from slow bowlers, as only then does the batsman have time to sight the length and adopt the kneeling position required for the slog sweep. The front leg of the shot is usually placed wider outside leg stump to allow for a full swing of the bat. A upper cut is a shot played towards third man, usually hit when the ball is pitched outside the off stump with an extra bounce. It is a dangerous shot which can edge the batsman to keeper or slips
Traveling on One Leg Published after Müller's emigration to Germany, it is cited in 2010's "History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe", along with "Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel" and "The Land of Green Plums", as drawing attention to her work in the West. The novel, one of several for which the author was known when winning the Nobel in 2009, was published in English in 1998 by Hydra Books/Northwestern University Press, translated by Valentina Glajar and André Lefevere. Traveling on One Leg Traveling on One Leg () is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, published in German in 1989