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English in Use
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Written by Patrick O'Connor
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Sunday, 01 August 2010 11:15 |
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It's the height of the cricket season in England and the Daily Mirror plays around with a cricketing term with the headline 'Stumped By A Space Rock.' The story is about cricket fan Jan Marzal (51) who claimed that he was hit by a piece of meteorite whilst watching Middlesex play Sussex in Uxbridge. He said that one piece hit him on the chest whilst another bounced on a boundary wall.
The headline uses the word 'stumped' which can mean challenged or progress frustrated but is also the cricket term for a form of dismissal when the wicket-keeper puts down the wicket when the batsmen is out of his ground.
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