middle stump

noun

, Cricket.

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

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 next ball came straight for the middle stump, but was blocked back half-way between the creases, and another run was stolen.

Bray had just lifted a length ball off the middle stump over short-leg's head.

In 1775 they wisely introduced a middle stump, as they found the best balls harmlessly flying between the wide wickets.

And then that thick-set, muscular beast, for so Fluff regarded him, stared fixedly at Fluff's middle stump.

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