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middle stump in American EnglishnounCricket the stump between the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket Examples of 'middle stump' in a sentencemiddle stump It didn't miss his middle stump, though, which was knocked flat.Middle stump was knocked out of the ground.It swung in late, if at gentle pace, homing in on middle stump.Onions it was, though, who did the damage this time, a peach of an inswinger flattening his middle stump.To be fair it only needed a straight one of my military medium trundlers and over went his middle stump.Inevitably, there were many jokes on a cricketing theme, with references to middle stumps and so on. |