With incremental execution, the dance's signature flipped-up-and-back flexed-leg-and-foot pose looked less like a kicked up heel than a pretty and preened piece of plumage.
But the young seamer had the nerve to send down a slower ball, and it completely deceived the left-hander to knock back leg-stump.
That was in the spring of 1986 when Barcelona lost the first leg of its European Cup semifinal to Gothenburg of Sweden 3-0, but stormed back to win the second leg 3-0 at Camp Nou.
Bridge will add to manager Avram Grant's defensive options after West Ham's only specialist left-back Herita Ilunga suffered a leg injury in the 1-1 draw with Everton on 28 December.
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Noimai somehow gained some hold and then trapped Dixon's long legs with a left leg back-heel.
In one drill, Curry has to perform a series of between-the-leg and behind-the-back dribbles while catching and throwing a tennis ball with his right hand.
Tremlett, who had come in for some severe punishment in his first appearance had two moments of joy when he knocked back Sehwag's leg-stump and cleaned up Robin Uthappa.
Defender Pepe believes back-to-back wins over Barcelona can inspire Real to victory in the second leg with the tie evenly poised at 1-1.
However, the match was decided by Bardsley's foul on Kranjcar, the Croatian bamboozling the Sunderland full-back before tumbling over his leg and Defoe dispatched the penalty with aplomb.
"The intriguing thing with Oscar was that he had two implants - one in each back leg, and in quite an unusual site, " Professor Blunn told BBC News.
And manager Martin O'Neill insisted they would not sit back and rely on having a first-leg advantage, secured by James Milner's first-half goal.
The visitors scored three tries inside 10 minutes but by then the game was over with the only downside a suspected broken leg for full-back Roberts.
The Cottagers, who will be without suspended right-back Chris Baird for the second leg, must be admired for the way they held firm to the end, Schwarzer thwarting an angled effort from substitute Mladen Petric on 88 minutes.
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 home side's plans were disrupted by an early leg injury to full-back Ashley Smith, with Connor taking his place.
At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Las Vegas in February 2009, Norton's Dr. Glassman presented a study on lumbar fusions that showed a significant improvement in fused patients' back pain, leg pain and other quality-of-life measures, both one and two years after their surgery.
Hooker Chris Wells was carried off after just three minutes with a knee ligament injury that could keep him sidelined for a month, and full-back Kevin Morgan limped off with a dead leg.
Seventeen seconds into the third period of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, he inadvertently passed the puck to Rangers forward Marian Gaborik, who banked a shot off the back of Brodeur's leg for a game-tying goal.
Several months back, Robles was fitted for a high-tech prosthetic leg, but that relationship is in the early, awkward stages.
Gould was again challenged by West Indies skipper Gayle after he had been adjudged leg before while playing back to a good-length Hilfenhaus delivery.
He returned to Pakistan, walking with the help of a cane, complaining of back pain, a bad leg and a torn eardrum -- all the result, he says, of his time in custody.
To make matters worse for Newcastle, full-back Italian Alessandro Pistone was taken off with a broken leg and could be out for three months.
He underwent three operations, including a 12-hour procedure transplanting a muscle from his back onto his leg and covering with skin grafts from his thigh.
Yuvraj flicked the only six of the innings to record the 150 in the 42nd over, but in the next he was back in the hutch after top-edging to short fine-leg.
The Vale boss is trying to seek cover for keeper Joe Anyon who is recovering from a broken leg, and he has no recognised left-back on his books.
Offspinners are less likely to pitch the ball way outside off stump and spin it back in, England's Graeme Swann notwithstanding, and leg-spinners and left-armers are less likely to pitch the ball outside the batsman's leg stump, rendering an LBW decision impossible.
"Not at this stage no, I'm retired, " the leg-spinner said when asked if he would be back for the 2007 World Cup.
He may have more support to continue rolling back some affirmative action policies introduced over 30 years ago to give a leg-up to the majority ethnic-Malay population.
Positioned at fine leg, the youngster made no mistake - and England now go back up a place to fifth in the ICC Test rankings.
Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid, 20, was a late addition to the back-up "performance" squad of nine, meaning a total of 23 England players were on the flight to the United Arab Emirates.
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