| However, on this occasion he couldn't get his eye in and he fell attempting to hook a Symonds short ball over midwicket. |
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| In the third over after the resumption, he flinched a dolly to short midwicket. |
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| Next ball, as if vindictively, he reverted to a hideous, shameless cross-batted slog near midwicket for six. |
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| There are none of the ugly slogs over midwicket or nicks flying through thirdman for four or over fineleg for six. |
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| Harbhajan looped in an off-break to Asim Kamal who went down on one knee to slog him over midwicket. |
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| The short boundaries looked even smaller with his glances, off-drives and swings through midwicket. |
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| His shot lobs high into the air before landing short of Harmison at deep midwicket. |
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| Dravid was out attempting to hit a six, the ball landing with the deep midwicket fielder. |
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| One Kaneria delivery that was sighted early was carted over midwicket, the next pushed down the ground for four. |
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| He tried to pull a short ball from Sami from outside off stump, top-edged it, and was caught by the bowler running towards midwicket. |
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| Yardy finally attempted one big hit too far and slapped a long hop to Ashraful at midwicket. |
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| It took a bit of time to figure out if you were the midwicket, fine leg, long off or deep gully. |
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| Ponting cracked 25 runs square on the leg side, and another 26 in the arc between midwicket and long on. |
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| After his 40 in the first innings, he was again in fine touch with a nice line in midwicket whips and punches through the covers. |
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| Next, Afridi swept one powerfully over midwicket, and later in the same tonked one over wide long-on. |
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| After slogging Lee for six, he tries to repeat the trick, but mistimes it straight to Katich at deep midwicket. |
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| When he stepped out next ball to lift, casually, between long-on and midwicket for a fourth six, finally we sensed that something might be up. |
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| His second-most prolific region was between mid-on and midwicket, through which he got three fours, including the one which got him his hundred. |
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| The arc between midwicket and long-on received maximum attention as bowlers were left gasping, fielders hopeless and spectators expectant. |
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| He was in good touch, his faultless timing through the covers and midwicket again in evidence. |
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| After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony. |
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| After Smith, the opener is Durham's best outfielder, so it was incredible he dropped a catch Rashid flicked right to him at a straightish midwicket. |
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| He fielded superbly, could score at close to a run-a-ball in one-dayers at will and whip boundaries through midwicket off balls others would leave outside offstump. |
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| They're going for the big shots and taking singles when they mistime it or fail to pierce the sweepers at cover and midwicket. |
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| Kevin Pietersen smacked Lee for huge six into the stands at midwicket and there will be debate over whether a thigh-high full toss was a beamer or a missed lbw dismissal. |
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| He strong-arms a full ball over midwicket for six, the third that Panesar has conceded in six overs. |
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| Anyway, White's over, four more singles and a lovely improvised boundary, struck through midwicket by Buttler. |
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| Joe Root got some outswing for his first ball, then knocked his next to the fieldsman at midwicket. |
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| So the next ball is dispatched through midwicket for four, and the one after that swept again, but this time into space, for another. |
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| His third is pulled through midwicket for four, a shot he enjoys so much he does it again a couple of ball later. |
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| Bopara slog-sweeps the ball straight to deep midwicket, where Maxwell collects, running to his right. |
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| And again he immediately follows up with another, clubbing the next delivery through midwicket for another four, though Hodge really should have stopped it. |
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| Pietersen senselessly clipped Peter Siddle to midwicket after Joe Root had struck the first ball he faced from Nathan Lyon to deep square-leg to expose the lower middle-order to Johnson. |
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| After that, there were plenty of characteristic flicks off his pads through midwicket, some controlled drives and a complete imperturbability throughout the day on the ideal flat pitch. |
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| Three overs from Johnson though were sufficient for him to be replaced by Siddle, while at the other end, Stokes eased Harris elegantly through midwicket for the first boundary of the morning. |
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| Hopkinson advanced to 119 before pulling a Jonathan Trott long hop to deep midwicket. |
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| Maxwell swept Mishra for three successive sixes over midwicket and lifted the fourth six into the sightscreen as the leg-spinner gave away 25 runs in that single over. |
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| After Will Smith, the opener is Durham's best outfielder, so it was incredible he dropped a catch Adil Rashid flicked right to him at a straightish midwicket. |
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