stump cam

plural stump cams · alternative stump-cam · alternative stumpcam

1. Synonym of stump camera.

   (Because the stump cam had yet to be invented, viewers were spared the sight of a super-slo replay of his gymnastic display from an overly explicit angle).

   2004, Nigel Henderson, The Worst of Cricket: Run Outs to Riots: Malice and Misfortune in the World’s Cruellest Game, Pitch Publishing, →ISBN, page 110

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   Things are different today because you get to see so much of what goes on, from the players arriving at airports with intrepid journalists like Tim Abraham thrusting a microphone in Ricky Ponting’s face to the latest technology, such as a stump cam that pretty much gives you the batsman’s view of the bowler running in.

   2010, Ian Botham, Botham’s Book of the Ashes: A Lifetime Love Affair with Cricket’s Greatest Rivalry, Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, pages 16–17

   Within a blink of Beer’s stumps being rattled, four of them were souvenired, the two containing stump cams being left behind – even in their ecstasy, the players never forget their debt to television.

   2011, Gideon Haigh, Ashes 2011: England’s Record-Breaking Series Victory, Aurum, published 2016, →ISBN, page 263

   Synonyms: stump camera