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mid-on

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

How To Use mid-on In A Sentence

  • He battled through, reprieved on 39 by a drop at mid-on. Times, Sunday Times
  • He holed out at mid-on two balls later. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr. Beer might have improved Australia's position even further earlier had his front foot not crept over the front line moments before Cook launched him in the air to mid-on. Australia Hoping to Stem
  • Gul had immediately narrowed the margin - driving the first ball of the day for four wide of mid-on when James Anderson overpitched, after the tourists began the day needing just eight runs from their final wicket to pass the follow-on in reply to IcSolihull
  • Waddy is used to fielding in the deep, or at mid-on or mid-off.
  • He advances to Doherty's fourth ball and lifts it imperiously over mid-on for a one-bounce four. Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
  • Warne's only victim yesterday - right-hander Tillakaratne Dilshan - slogged a catch to Michael Kasprowicz at mid-on.
  • It still needed a fine catch from Crowe, who hared back to wide mid-on and sprawled towards the boundary.
  • One early game was interrupted after an unexploded land mine was discovered at silly mid-on. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bruyns chopped a ball onto his stumps and Gamiet spooned a catch to mid-on.
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