leg bye

noun

Cricket.

1. a run or bye scored on a bowled ball that ricochets off any part of the batsman's body except the hand.

leg bye

noun

1. lb. cricket a run scored after the ball has hit the batsman's leg or some other part of his body, except his hand, without touching the bat

Example Sentences

The seventh-wicket pair were together for 20 balls and added two runs, one of which was a leg bye.

From BBC

Sanderson has a slip, gully and forward short leg for company and he'll keep the strike with a leg bye that runs the ball down to fine leg.

From BBC

Back on the body later in the over, the left-hander can’t make contact, off the thigh a third time for a leg bye.

From The Guardian

Delhi skipper Rishabh Pant hit a boundary against leg-spinner Rashid Khan and then ran a leg bye off the last ball to hand Hyderabad their fourth loss this season in five games.

From Washington Times

Wood is absolutely loving this, even more than he loves everything else, but Blackwood gets himself going with a single to deep backward square, then Chase nudges two towards a similar area and leg bye follows.

From The Guardian