After considerable indecision so far this year, in the last few days it looks like it has broken out of the triangle formation to the downside, making another down-leg likely.
Ganga danced down the wicket to launch leg-spinner Max Waller straight down the ground for six, but fell in unfortunate fashion to the final ball of the over when a quicker googly fizzed in down the leg-side came off his inner thigh on the stumps.
Collingwood swung defiantly to send Santh over mid-wicket and down to fine-leg for 10 in two balls before another thrash over mid-wicket made it 16 off the over.
But bowling at the renowned rabbit Chris Martin for his hat-trick, he hurled the next delivery down the leg-side.
It was the second new ball that provided the next breakthrough, Sree Santh trapping Collingwood as he shuffled across his crease, the gritty Durham all-rounder clearly feeling the ball would have headed down the leg-side.
Taylor flays Plunkett down to long-leg for a couple and picks up another single with a tickle to leg.
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Better over from Anderson, a tickle down the leg-side from Simmons and a carve into the covers for two from Sarwan.
Thomas had Samit Patel lbw with a delivery that may have been sliding down the leg-side and Zander de Bruyn removed Ali Brown soon after.
Borthwick claimed a second easy catch to give Bresnan his first Test wicket when Brendan Nash guided a ball travelling down the leg side to square-leg.
Lara's decision to bowl gained early reward with the wicket of Jayasuriya caught behind off Collymore down the leg-side after a stand of 38 with Marvan Atapattu.
Again a change resulted in immediate success, Mohammad Rafique's first ball trapping Dravid, the captain infuriated with the decision as the ball appeared to drift down the leg-side.
But the left-hander fell 10 runs short of three figures when he was brilliantly caught behind by wicketkeeper McCullum attempting to paddle sweep Daniel Vettori down the leg-side.
Middlesex began smoothly, before Housego was caught down the leg-side.
Ramnaresh Sarwan, on 13, was caught behind down the leg-side off seamer Chris Woakes, who struck again when acting captain Denesh Ramdin could only fend a rising delivery to Ian Bell in the slips.
One man who might have helped Australia out of the mire was Mike Hussey but he was unluckily given out lbw when one from Gul appeared to be doing too much and heading down the leg-side.
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His second over contained an innocuous slider down the leg-side, but Simmons lazily flicked at it, and Cook - crucially standing a few yards closer to the action than a regulation square-leg - snapped up a catch.
Shah, a very occasional off-spinner, was then given a chance with the ball, and after sending down two of the wildest deliveries ever seen in an international, the hunch paid off as Rahul Dravid tried to turn another wayward one down the leg-side only to get a leading edge.
Amla's first reprieve came when Murali put down a straightforward chance at short-leg and next ball wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni put down a difficult opportunity.
"I've had six cortisone injections, two operations and have got an eight-inch scar down my leg, " said Tudor.
Leading 2-1 from the first leg Roma went 1-0 down early on but hit back with three goals, two from Mattia Destro and one from Vasilis Torosidis before Ricardo Alvarez grabbed a consolation for Inter.
The Rams held a 1-0 lead from the first leg but were 3-0 down inside 35 minutes at Old Trafford.
If this area gives way to selling pressure, the security could be in for another sharp down leg over the short-to-intermediate term.
Paul Collingwood, on his 33rd birthday, blasted a quick-fire 23, including a huge six down the leg, to help his side past 300 and reach their highest one-day total against West Indies - beating the 1995 total of 306-5 at The Oval.
The former England opener was finally caught down the leg side by substitute wicket-keeper Tom Burrows, while Langer eventually edged a Lamb off-break behind.
With the pad shoved several yards down the pitch, umpires could be counted on to turn down the bowling team's leg-before-wicket appeals since the ball was so far in front of the stumps that it would be practically impossible to judge definitively whether it would have hit.
We're going to do the last leg of the competition down here - the curls, or the sit-ups.
Barca suffered just their second defeat in 22 matches when they went down 2-0 to Milan in the first leg at the San Siro.
The Toffees played well at Stamford Bridge and were unlucky to be 2-1 down on aggegate going into the second leg.
Gilchrist merely stepped up his assault to thrash Kartik over deep square-leg, long-on and down the ground for three maximums in the 14th over.
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