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leg before wicket

in cricket, a batsman putting a body part in front of the wicket illegally, which can cause the batsman to be out
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leg before wicket

Summary

leg before wicket is a sports terminology[1]. It draws 201 Wikipedia views per month (sports_terminology category, ranking #22 of 74).[2]

Key Facts

  • leg before wicket's instance of is recorded as sports terminology[3].
  • leg before wicket's subclass of is recorded as dismissal[4].
  • leg before wicket's Commons category is recorded as Leg before wicket[5].
  • leg before wicket's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1774-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
  • leg before wicket's sport is recorded as cricket[7].
  • leg before wicket's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01q36n[8].
  • leg before wicket's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as sports/leg-before-wicket[9].
  • leg before wicket's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'lbw'}[10].

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Designation and Status

leg before wicket's instance of is recorded as sports terminology[3].

Why It Matters

leg before wicket draws 201 Wikipedia views per month (sports_terminology category, ranking #22 of 74).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). leg before wicket. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/leg-before-wicket
MLA “leg before wicket.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/leg-before-wicket.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_leg-before-wicket_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{leg before wicket}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/leg-before-wicket}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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