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How To Use wicket In A Sentence

• Three hours packed with a quick-fire century, a couple of bouncers, two-thirds of a hat-trick, a dropped catch, several bowled wickets and innumerable fours and sixers.
• His eight wickets came at a hefty price. Times, Sunday Times
• After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony.
• India's reply was a total disaster, with wickets falling too rapidly due to run-outs.
• Dravid was out attempting to hit a six, the ball landing with the deep midwicket fielder.
• Yuvraj takes a swift two through mid-wicket, and then late cuts past short-third man for four with the help of a misfield by Graeme Swann! Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Kumble went round the wicket to bring the ugly miscued, sliced slog to mid-off's hands into play.
• To Slegge's annoyance, he very soon found that if the prestige of the school was to be kept up Glyn and Singh must be in the eleven, for the former in a very short time was acknowledged to be the sharpest bowler in the school, while, from long practice together, Singh was an admirable wicket-keeper -- one who laughed at gloves and pads, was utterly without fear, and had, as Wrench said -- he being a great admirer of a game in which he never had a chance to play -- "a nye like a nork. Glyn Severn's Schooldays
• He saw his side lose eight wickets for 61 before he found some support from the ageless Bill Carter who helped add 25 for the ninth wicket until Webster hit a return catch to Evans and fell for 58.
• An outdoor game in which the players drive wooden balls through a series of wickets using long-handled mallets.