How To Use Mid-off In A Sentence
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At his best he bowled to three slips, gully, third man, cover, mid-off, mid-on and square short leg.
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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.
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Waddy is used to fielding in the deep, or at mid-on or mid-off.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I can do slips and mid-wicket and cover and point and silly mid-off and square leg.
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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.
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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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Cricket terms with an odd ring to Americans include the "silly mid-off" (a fielding position) and "googly" (a ball that breaks unexpectedly).
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His mistimed drive to mid-off was almost inevitable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moeen Ali's dirty heave got as far as mid-off and was received almost as badly at Batty's delight.
County cricket - live!
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He tonked the third ball he faced in international cricket into the stands over long-on, and followed that up with a bludgeoned straight drive that gave mid-off no chance.
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Darling was able to switch from attack to defence with the utmost ease and his preferred fielding position was at mid-off.
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The default sporting captain option is, of course, the former England cricket captain Mike Brearley, who could position himself in the technical area as though it were mid-off.
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It was weird standing at mid-on and mid-off to them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kumble went round the wicket to bring the ugly miscued, sliced slog to mid-off's hands into play.
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He got there in the penultimate over from Fleming but two balls later he pushed to David Fulton at mid-off and was run out attempting a suicidal single.
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Sachin goes on the back foot, covers the line of the ball, the bat goes up ever so gentle and then with a low backlift swings to meet the ball seam-up, the meat of the willow taps the ball, it edges past the outstretched fingers of Wasim, brushes past the umpire and races toward the boundary, the mid-off and mid-on players giving up the futile chase half-way through.
Personal - Cricket Nostalgia
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Flintoff is nearly out for a duck when his mistimed drive just goes over the head of mid-off, then there's a big appeal for a bat-pad catch by Simon Katich, but Billy Bowden shakes his head vigorously.
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Umar Akmal (17 not out) and Misbah (43no) combined for three boundaries as Roach's next over went badly awry and the former hoisted Bravo over mid-off for four more to clinch victory.
Pakistan's Ahmed Shehzad scores century to subdue West Indies
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At his best he bowled to three slips, gully, third man, cover, mid-off, mid-on and square short leg.
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Sourav Ganguly, once legendarily dismissive of spinners but now woefully out of form, was dropped by Younis Khan at silly mid-off.
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He was out caught to a fine catch by Hayward at mid-off just four short of his best of 73 not out.
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But until his dismissal - a sliced hoick to mid-off - his off-side game sparkled.
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Soon after, he played a sharply rising ball as well as he could, off his ribs almost, and watched, relieved as it fell just short of silly mid-off.
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He carted pace bowler Shane Bond for a huge six over his head before being dropped at mid-off by Mark Richardson.
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Waddy is used to fielding in the deep, or at mid-on or mid-off.
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His mistimed drive to mid-off was almost inevitable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kumble went round the wicket to bring the ugly miscued, sliced slog to mid-off's hands into play.
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The bowler bowled, the batsman, instead of backing further away, wafted at the ball, which looped up towards mid-off, who, miraculously, caught it.
Why Pakistan's poor slip catching is itself catching
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Jonah was a good batsman, which made up for his lack of ability with the bat, preferring to field at mid-off.
