“He just didn't quite get his leg over.”

— Jonathan Agnew

Commentating on Ian Botham trying but failing to step over the stumps
[The Wit of Cricket, Barry, Johnston, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ygNa9iKqu2oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22jonathan+agnew%22+stewart+test&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=He%20just%20didn't%20quite%20get%20his%20leg%20over!&f=false, Hodder & Stoughton, 9781444715026]

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