middle stump


nounCricket.
  1. the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.

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How to use middle stump in a sentence

  • If it had been a decent-sized rabbit, I should have plugged it middle stump; only it was a small one, so I missed.

    The Gold Bat | P. G. Wodehouse
  • The next ball came straight for the middle stump, but was blocked back half-way between the creases, and another run was stolen.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys | Lewis Hough
  • Bray had just lifted a length ball off the middle stump over short-leg's head.

    The Loom of Youth | Alec Waugh
  • In 1775 they wisely introduced a middle stump, as they found the best balls harmlessly flying between the wide wickets.

    Old English Sports | Peter Hampson Ditchfield
  • And then that thick-set, muscular beast, for so Fluff regarded him, stared fixedly at Fluff's middle stump.

    The Hill | Horace Annesley Vachell