Cover drive (cricket) the leg side, including flicks around the wicket. Sourav Ganguly, Mark Waugh, Damien Martyn, Michael Vaughan, Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar, Kumar Sangakkara and Herschelle Gibbs are widely known to have used the stroke in modern era of international cricket. Cover drive (cricket) The cover drive in cricket is the act of stroking the ball through the covers with well-timed wristwork and conventional movement of the front foot toward the pitch of a delivery aimed at or outside the off stump. The cover drive is considered one of the most graceful shots playable in the sport. Batsmen able to master the
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