mid-wicket

noun

1. the fielding position on the on side, approximately midway between square leg and mid-on

2. a fielder in this position

Example Sentences

There was a question mark over Sciver-Brunt, who has been easing her way back to bowling fitness after an Achilles problem, but she immediately silenced those doubts with Bosch trapped by a ball that stayed a little low while Chloe Tryon fell to a soft dismissal, plinking one to Alice Capsey at mid-wicket.

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Needing five for victory or four for a tie, Durham batter Clark heaved England international Tymal Mills over the boundary at mid-wicket.

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However, Clark was set for the slower ball again and, when Mills put it on a length, he heaved the ball over mid-wicket.

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His three sixes – the first timed down the ground, the second heaved over square leg and the third, the biggest of the lot, slog-swept over mid-wicket – took his tally to 21 off Rashid in T20s.

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West Indies international Deandra Dottin dragged the score up with 36 from 30 balls but she was caught hitting the final ball of the innings to deep mid-wicket.

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