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The cricket pitch itself is sometimes referred to as the wicket. [3] [4] In the sport of croquet, wooden or plastic balls are hit with a mallet through hoops embedded in a grass playing court. A croquet hoop is commonly referred to as a wicket in North American English. (Note: the remainder of this page is about the wicket in cricket, not in ...
a suffix to any number, meaning the number of wickets taken by a team or bowler. (See also fifer/five-fer) Ferret see rabbit. [1] Diagram of a typical oval field Field 1. (noun) a large grass turf area on which the sport is played, forming part of the wider ground.
Another possible source is the Middle Dutch word "krickstoel ", meaning a long low stool used for kneeling in church that resembled the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket. [16] According to Heiner Gillmeister, a European language expert of Bonn University , "cricket" derives from the Middle Dutch phrase for hockey, " met de ...
Sticky wicket (or sticky dog, or glue pot) [1] is a metaphor [2] used to describe a difficult circumstance. It originated as a term for difficult circumstances in the sport of cricket, caused by a damp and soft wicket. [3]
Other terms used are the batter being out, the batting side losing a wicket, and the fielding side (and often the bowler) taking a wicket. The ball becomes dead (meaning that no further runs can be scored off that delivery ), and the dismissed batter must leave the field of play for the rest of their team's innings, to be replaced by a team-mate.
In junior cricket the items have lesser dimensions. Each stump is referred to by a specific name: Off stump [4] is the stump on the off side of the wicket (the same side as the batsman's bat). Middle stump [5] is the centre stump, the middle of the three stumps. Leg stump [6] is the stump on the on side of the wicket (the same side as the ...
In cricket, the wicket-keeper is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket, ready to stop deliveries that pass the batsman, and take a catch, stump the batsman out, or run out a batsman when occasion arises. The wicket-keeper is the only member of the fielding side permitted to wear gloves and external leg guards. [1]
In cricket, a hat-trick occurs when a bowler takes three wickets from three consecutive deliveries. [1] [2] The deliveries may be interrupted by an over bowled by another bowler from the other end of the pitch or the other team's innings, but must be three consecutive deliveries by the individual bowler in the same match.