Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
stump , 5.
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Examples
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Di Venuto, still pulling and cutting solidly, went to his 100 off 139 balls, but Ben Stokes, fit again after a long absence with a dislocated finger, punched one fine back-foot drive through the covers before being given leg before to a Franks delivery which must have been very close to pitching outside leg-stump, and when Adams struck again to dismiss Blackwell, the innings was very much in the balance.
Durham 272-2, Nottinghamshire | County Championship day one match report 2011
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A couple of years later I was fielding at short-leg to a left‑arm seamer with a weakness for bowling leg-stump, long hops.
Mohinder Amarnath's bravery for India was a lesson for the cricket world | Rob Bagchi 2011
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He gets four more two balls later, wristily flipping a leg-stump half-volley through midwicket.
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I say filler; perhaps I should have typed another word that begins with 'fil' because that was an appalling over, full of leg-stump garbage.
The Ashes 2010: Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth 2010
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Afridi bowls a leg-stump full toss that Strauss pushes through the midwicket circle for another single after Morgan had taken one.
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England, with one review left, took it and Morgan was reprieved by the third umpire, Marais Erasmus, as TV replays suggested the ball was missing leg-stump.
Eoin Morgan grateful to review system after maiden Test century 2010
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On replay things were less clear: Hawk-Eye suggested it might have sneaked past leg-stump and could have been a touch high.
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It transpired that the ball pitched outside of Hussey's leg-stump by a few millimetres.
The Ashes 2010: Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin make England suffer Vic Marks in Brisbane 2010
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But there was time for Trott, that most diligently obsessive of practicers? last out of the nets on Tuesday, with the groundstaff waiting to shut up shop? to clip his first ball, a leg-stump half-volley from Asif (something of a collectors 'item) through midwicket.
Pakistan plan of attack frustrated as rain ruins day against England 2010
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The first six overs after the break produced 43 with Harmison's leg-stump line attractive to both left handers and Thorp's generous length suiting Lumb very nicely.
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