I use to beleive that the silly midd on position in cricket was actually a name of player, I'd imagined him being a very poor fielder who dropped a lot of catches because his mind was of cricket an on other things instead causing him to be nick named "silly midd of".
A childhood belief about sport

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Jiminy Cricket was a grasshopper because I had never seen a green cricket.Anon
- I forgot the expression "not cricket", so I said, "not tennis" instead.Anon
- I used to believe that cricket ice cream used to be made out of real crickets!!!— Lt. Fuzz
- I used to believe that God was a hedgehog!!! Silly I know, but I was about 6!— Amy-Jo
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that windmills were what caused the wind to blow. silly me :)— Adrian Z. Ontario, CA USA
- I used to believe that when the year 2000 came around we would all turn into robots - how silly of me— Andy