The ‘leg-break’ ball is usually bowled from round the wicket, as from this side there is more scope for the bowler to make the ball twist. It is doubtless the best side of the stumps to choose for the delivery of this ball, but every bowler should remember that it is very nearly as good as a change of bowling to change from ‘round’ to ‘over’ the wicket, and this is especially so with leg-break balls. The ball delivered from round the wicket generally leaves the hand a good foot outside the extremity of the bowling crease; this means that it starts about 4 feet 4 inches from the middle stump of the bowler’s wicket, and in its journey through the air, even if pitched in a line with the leg stump of the batsman’s wicket, it has to make considerable way from the leg side of the wicket. This, of course, makes the ball go across the wicket more from the pitch, and, as a rule, means that a leg-stump leg-break ball round the wicket misses the wicket on the off side. A batsman, if the ball is pitched off his wicket, may defend it, as the rule of leg before wicket now stands, with his legs, and consequently the bowler has not much chance of hitting it. When bowled from over the wicket the leg-break ball, being delivered in a direct line with the batsman’s wicket, will naturally, if pitched on the leg-stump or between the legs and the wicket, not twist so much, thus making it more likely to hit the wicket if missed by the batsman. There is also a direct advantage to be gained by bowling over the wicket if the batsman is inclined to get in front of his stumps, as there is always a better chance for the bowler to get an appeal for leg before wicket answered in his favour than when bowling from the other side. ● SHORT SLIP ● WICKET KEEPER ╔╦╗ ║║║ ● ¯¯¯¯¯ POINT ● LONG LEG ● ● MID ON HALF HIT HALF HIT ╔╦╗ ● ║║║ ↑ ¯¯¯¯¯ ● | ● BOWLER OR| MID OFF _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| ● ● DEEP MID OFF ● DEEP MID ON Position of field if bowling on leg side.