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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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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.
Next, Afridi swept one powerfully over midwicket, and later in the same tonked one over wide long-on.
Yardy finally attempted one big hit too far and slapped a long hop to Ashraful at midwicket.
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.
However, on this occasion he couldn't get his eye in and he fell attempting to hook a Symonds short ball over midwicket.
Ponting cracked 25 runs square on the leg side, and another 26 in the arc between midwicket and long on.

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