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mid-off

NOUN
  1. the fielding position in cricket closest to the bowler on the off side

How To Use mid-off In A Sentence

  • At his best he bowled to three slips, gully, third man, cover, mid-off, mid-on and square short leg.
  • Ian Bell, surrounded by a slip, gully, short leg and captain Ricky Ponting at silly mid-off, became Warne's second lbw victim for eight.
  • Waddy is used to fielding in the deep, or at mid-on or mid-off.
  • Prince had looked shaky after tea and it was unsurprising when he offered a simple catch off Lyon before De Villiers got a top edge to an ambitious pull shot that Cummins held after racing away from mid-off. Peter Siddle cuts down South Africa resistance to give Australia edge
  • But at the end of it, as Graeme Swann belted Clint McKay over mid-off for six to bring things to the most emphatic conclusion, England had beaten Australia by four wickets for the second time in two days, this time with 28 deliveries in hand. Stuart Broad sets England on way to second victory over Australia
  • In his second over Collingwood tempted Bilal Shafayat to sky a catch to mid-off and then bowled David Willey and the 17-year-old Oliver Stone, who was making his senior debut. Paul Collingwood takes hat-trick as Durham dismiss Northants for 47
  • Associated Press Andrew Strauss Tense to the end, the result came down to the final ball: India's Munaf Patel bowled it; Graeme Swann, of England, hit it through mid-off for one run and with that, the match concluded with just the fourth tie in this tournament's 36-year history. Tied game sparks new life into an ailing World Cup
  • I can do slips and mid-wicket and cover and point and silly mid-off and square leg. POPCO
  • He tonked the third ball he faced in international cricket - from Sehwag - into the stands over long-on, and followed that up with a bludgeoned straight drive that gave mid-off no chance.
  • Lancashire's sub-200 score was confirmed when Tom Smith 31, the one batsman other than Moore to counter Warwickshire's aerial movement effectively, skied to mid-off. Lancashire v Warwickshire | County Championship match report
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