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wicket

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noun

a window or opening, often closed by a grating or the like, as in a door, or forming a place of communication in a ticket office, a teller's cage in a bank, etc.
Croquet. a hoop or arch.
a turnstile in an entrance.
a small door or gate, especially one beside, or forming part of, a larger one.
a small gate by which a canal lock is emptied.
a gate by which a flow of water is regulated, as to a waterwheel.
Cricket.
1. either of the two frameworks, each consisting of three stumps with two bails in grooves across the tops, at which the bowler aims the ball.
2. the area between these frameworks; the playing field.
3. one batsman's turn at the wicket.
4. the period during which two players bat together.
5. a batsman's innings that is not completed or not begun.

wicket

/ ˈ��ɪ��ɪ�� /

noun

a small door or gate, esp one that is near to or part of a larger one
a small window or opening in a door, esp one fitted with a grating or glass pane, used as a means of communication in a ticket office, bank, etc
a small sluicegate, esp one in a canal lock gate or by a water wheel
a croquet hoop
1. cricket either of two constructions, placed 22 yards apart, consisting of three pointed stumps stuck parallel in the ground with two wooden bails resting on top, at which the batsman stands
2. the strip of ground between these
3. a batsman's turn at batting or the period during which two batsmen bat
  a third-wicket partnership
4. the act or instance of a batsman being got out
  the bowler took six wickets
keep wicket
to act as a wicketkeeper
on a sticky wicket informal.
in an awkward situation

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wicket¹

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English wiket, from Anglo-French; Old French guischet, from Germanic; compare Middle Dutch wiket “wicket,” equivalent to wik- (akin to Old English ��ī�� “to yield”; weak ) + -et, noun suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wicket¹

C18: from Old Northern French wiket; related to Old Norse vikja to move

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

to be on / have / bat a sticky wicket, British Slang. to be at or have a disadvantage.

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Atkinson took 12 wickets against West Indies on his Test debut in July, which sparked a remarkable tally of 52 scalps in the year.

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He scored 103 runs and took five wickets in the drawn 2023 Ashes and by the end of the series had lost his place to Mitchell Marsh.

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James Anderson OBE - Cricketer who holds the all-time record for wickets taken for England.

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Anderson, 42, retired from Test cricket last summer with 704 wickets, making him the most successful pace bowler in the format.

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Carse, meanwhile, established himself as a key member of England's pace attack over the winter with 27 wickets in five Tests after making his debut in Pakistan.

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