TRANSLATION REQUEST….From BBC Sport, reporting on the lone cricket heroics of Kevin Pietersen in today’s Ashes Test against Australia:
In what proved to be the last show of home defiance, he slog-swept the leg-spinner for six and smashed another delivery to the long-off boundary.
He slog-what the who? Is there anybody out there who can translate this into Americanese for me?
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