Leg bye it. Prior to his retirement from Test cricket Australian captain Steve Waugh called for leg byes to be removed from the sport, commenting: "I don't think you should get runs when you miss the ball." Umpires signal a leg bye with a hand touching their raised knee. 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.
Square Leg hit for no obvious reason. Operation Square Leg was one of the exercises used to estimate the destructiveness of a Soviet nuclear attack in the 1984 BBC production "Threads". Square Leg Square Leg was a 1980 British government home defence Command Post and field exercise, which tested the Transition to War and Home Defence roles of the Ministry of Defence and British government. Part of the exercise involved a mock nuclear attack on Britain. It was assumed that 131 nuclear weapons would fall on Britain with a total yield of 205 megatons (69 ground burst; 62 air burst) with yields