One of the three vertical posts that support the bails and form the wicket.
Synonyms
Examples for "stump"
Examples for "stump"
1
Good question. She beamed; it was considered a coup to stump me.
2
The last remaining question is who will stump up 2 billion euros.
3
President Clinton and Hillary came to the state to stump for me.
4
But she passed him in the room and touched the stump first.
5
Now there stood in the plain the stump of a wild olive-tree.
1
It hit him on the back leg, in front of middle stump.
2
Rodney Marsh swung across the line and lost his middle stump.
3
The in-swinging yorker from the left hander took out middle stump.
4
Then Cronje played an immaculate looking forward defensive, only to lose his middle stump.
5
I think you might say it took the middle stump.
1
Quite right too, because the ball pitched just outside leg stump.
2
The ball would've crashed into leg stump, leaving Paine to wallow in regret.
3
It looked tight but I think trapped him in front of leg stump.
4
The ball turned too much and would have missed leg stump.
5
Replays showed the whole of the ball hitting the leg stump.
1
It was low outside off stump, and he scorched it through point.
2
Most of his runs came from balls wide of the off stump.
3
Sanagakkara, fishing outside off stump, is beaten by a good one.
4
In particular, there is a vulnerability outside off stump that will be exploited.
5
He could leave the ball outside off stump for days, Gary says proudly.
6
The first ball was well up, just outside the off stump.
7
Here Kohli did manage to leave a ball outside off stump.
8
It may have been missing off stump but the batsman was well beaten.
9
Hilfenhaus opens the attack, swinging the first ball back in towards off stump.
10
It was heading for the meaty part of his off stump.
11
It was a piece of filth, in truth, well wide of off stump.
12
Peters' off stump was lying at an angle of forty-five degrees.
13
The bowler responded by delivering the ball into a different postcode outside off stump.
14
Steyn's first delivery is fast, but passes outside off stump.
15
A shortish one outside off stump is bludgeoned into the ground for a single.
16
It passes outside off stump and England have the draw!
