Off side Off side The off side is a particular half of the field in the sport of cricket. From the point of view of a right-handed batsman facing the bowler, it is the right-hand side of the field, or the half of the field in front of the right-handed batsman when he or she assumes the batting stance. The off side consists of the entire half of the field stretching from behind the batsman-end wicket, around third man, square of the wicket on the off side, the covers, and mid/long off, up to the opposite bowler-end wicket and, behind it, the
Mid-Ocean Meeting Point in New York City rather than Halifax Harbour, a Halifax ocean meeting point (HOMP) was established off Halifax for BX convoys of ships from New England and Canadian ports to join or leave the trans-Atlantic convoys. Mid-Ocean Meeting Point The Mid-Ocean Meeting Point (MOMP) was the name of a point south of Iceland where escort groups would meet World War II merchant ship convoys en route between Newfoundland and the British Isles. The actual meeting point might be different for each convoy, but was always north of 58° North and in the vicinity of 35° West. In the First and