Leg bye Leg bye In the sport of cricket, a leg bye is a run scored by the batting team if the batsman has not hit the ball with his or her bat, but the ball has hit the batsman's body or protective gear. It is covered by Law 23 of the Laws of Cricket. If the ball deflects off the batsman's body he can attempt to score runs in a similar manner as if he had hit the ball. The number of runs scored are scored as leg byes – they are added to the team's total, but not to the
Leg cutter only at higher speed. This changes the axis of spin to make it more like a leg break, which makes the ball deviate to the left when it bounces on the pitch. From a right-handed batsman's point of view, this deviation is to the right, or from the leg side towards the off side. This deviation is known as "cut", and the delivery is called a "leg cutter" because it moves "away" from the leg side. What differentiates a genuine leg cutter from a seam-up delivery that simply moves away off the seam is that it is deliberately bowled. Leg