One who handles the bat at cricket. batsman's wicket, a cricket pitch more favourable to the batter than to the bowler.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > surface of ground > types of (7) batsman's wicket1876 One who handles the bat at cricket. batsman's wicket, a cricket pitch more favourable to the batter than to the bowler. bowler's wicket1876 Cricket. The player who bowls or ‘delivers’ the ball at the wicket. Also bowler's (or bowlers') match: a cricket match in which the bowling is… shirt front1893 colloquial. As a modifier. Usually as one word or with hyphen. Designating a very smooth and even cricket pitch, regarded as advantageous to the… sticky dog1904 a pitch that has been drying after rain and is difficult to bat on; cf. sticky wicket at sense 2b(a). sticky1936 Cricket. Australian colloquial. A pitch that is drying after recent rain; a sticky wicket. Cf. sticky, adj.2 2b(a). turning pitch1956 a pitch on which the ball turns or deviates on delivery. belter1983 Cricket. A pitch providing ideal conditions for batting; esp. one on which the ball tends to bounce predictably and in a way that is conducive to… |
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