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• n  the fielding position in cricket closest to the bowler on the off side

• Night Without Stars (Rank) is what the British, who made it, might call a pretty bit of work at silly mid-off: a cricket position in which the fielder, close in, often has to .

Quotes

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• Ryan Sidebottom in 7DAYS
  I wasn't really thinking about anything before I bowled - Swanny (Graeme Swann) told me he'd do a few things to me if I got the hat-trick from mid-off,said Sidebottom. "Once I'd appealed I didn't think he was going to put his finger up and...
• Kevin Pietersen in Independent Online
  But Pietersen told reporters at Lord's here Friday: "If we do everything we said in our team meeting, I'll be smoking a cigar at mid-off."
• Dale Steyn in TopNews
  We have developed a really good partnership. You will see that one of us is always standing at mid-off or mid-on when another quick is operating. We know each others strengths, plans and what spurs them on. It is a very good partnership. The one...