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What does midwicket mean?

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Noun
  1. (cricket) a fielding position, about 40° forward of square on the leg side, between square leg and mid on
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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.
Next, Afridi swept one powerfully over midwicket, and later in the same tonked one over wide long-on.
After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony.
It took a bit of time to figure out if you were the midwicket, fine leg, long off or deep gully.
He was in good touch, his faultless timing through the covers and midwicket again in evidence.
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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