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Evolving wrote:

Hobbes Choice wrote:You do not get stumped with stones, but with a CRICKET BALL.

And you don't get stumped by someone throwing something. Run out, perhaps.

Er, yes you do - you can get stumped by the bowler knocking out your stumps, (can't you?).

In any event the word "Stump" literally means stumble and is not directly related to throwing. - so only a pun to the English middle classes.