Katich's disappointing comeback Test continued when he was trapped leg-before by Edwards and home fans were soon celebrating again as Powell bowled Hussey off his pads to leave the match intriguingly poised.
So wrote Martin Johnson about Bill Frindall and the cricket statistician fraternity in the Daily Telegraph, after England's Andrew Strauss played all around a Shane Warne delivery in the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney in January 2007, a dismissal which saw the leg-spinner become the first bowler to take 700 Test wickets in history.
"I twisted my leg violently in the first test and the pain was unbearable, " said the 2010 champion.
Other players doubtful for the Test against Ireland are Matthew Burke (dead leg) and Mat Rogers (rib cartilage).
Tamim, who made 128 against West Indies in St Vincent last year, showed no sign of nerves as he brought up his second Test century by gloving a boundary to fine leg off Zaheer.
The actual test itself involves going into a vein in the leg.
And national selectors around the globe will have to be a little braver in future if leg-spinners are not simply regarded as Test specialists.
Uncapped Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid is in the Test squad, as is seamer Ryan Sidebottom, who missed the India Test series with a side injury.
Gambhir was fortunate to survive a certain lbw appeal when Mills was called for a no-ball with his first delivery of the day, but took advantage of his leg-off to bring up his 10th Test half century.
The Sri Lankan is the second-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket with 532 scalps in 91 matches, behind Aussie leg-spinner Shane Warne (583 wickets).
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.
Rahul Dravid sprung to his left to clasp a Steyn edge with one hand for his 200th Test catch, and Cheteshwar Pujara showed superb reactions at short leg to remove Harris.
The Australian is regarded as one of the finest leg spin bowlers in the history of cricket and took 708 Test wickets for his country.
Leg-spinner Danish Kaneria and Faisal Iqbal were named in the Test squad only.
Australia ensured Muttiah Muralitharan would have to wait until the home series against England to have the chance to overhaul Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne as the leading wicket-taker in Test history.
Tendulkar maintained a steady scoring rate, whipping Morkel wristily through the leg-side for successive boundaries, while Sehwag reached his 19th Test century in suitably fine style, carving Parnell to the point boundary.
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However, Ponting is confident he has enough slow-bowling cover with leg-spinner Smith and vice-captain Michael Clarke, who has 21 Test wickets.
The batsmen took India's lead past 300 before Yuvraj recorded his fifth Test fifty with a cut single and Gambhir his ninth by working Stuart Broad into the leg side.
Overall, 980 out of the initial 1, 024 participants started the fifth leg of this year's MDS, a grueling adventure challenging participants to test their bodies and minds as they take on whipping sandstorms and blazing temperatures of up to 50C in their epic journey across the Southern Moroccan desert.
Inglis may face Harlequins to test a hip complaint ahead of the Leeds game while Lima is hoping to shake off a leg injury.
On paper at least, it appeared they would provide a stern test to City but the manner of this win means Mark Hughes' men will approach the second leg on 19 March in confident mood.
Bravo also had an escape on 46 when he was dropped by a diving Hodge at square-leg off Brett Lee and made the most of it to score his score a second Test hundred in as many games.
The Essex opener, who ended a run of disappointing Test scores with a century in England's victory in Durban, gently popped up a catch to square leg off an innocuous Morne Morkel delivery.
Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid, 21, who has been in the Caribbean to gain experience with the Test squad, will remain for the one-day matches.
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