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...there's no arrest for the wicket
...but you can lose your wicket if you are caught and you'd be caught red-handed in a Test Match.
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> and you'd be caught red-handed in a Test Match
Oh - very good Doc!! That one's sure to clean bowl a few! I bet heaps won't get it! (It's good to be able to pay them US'ns back every now and then!!)
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Max - you knew I'd bite didn't you!
Relax - it's in the bag. Any close follower of the one day series would know that the Aussies always throw the first few games, just manage to scrape into the finals - and then kick ass.
I'm surprised at your short sightedness and lack of commercial acumen! C'mon, the boys are on a percentage of the gate! Who'd pay to see just another whitewash? If they were anything but confident would they rotate team members? I don't think so!!
Now, where's Mum's recipe for cooking crow and humble pie? Not that I'm worried mind....but just in case....
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I think I'm posting this under the wrong heading, but just read through all this sports talk and my head is reeling.
On Duke Ellington's song: Good to have that tune swinging in my rafters.
On the bail's being the crosspiece: And (tangent) a bail is also the handle that holds the bucket or pail. Whales' tails; pails' bails. And the Duke could swing anything -- from bails to tails with his cool wails.
Just in case you didn't know,
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Yus, and the Kiwis will probably rotate Lance Cairns and Richard Hadlee back into the side, too... Even in their wheelchairs, mate, even in their wheelchairs.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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The stumps are the three uprights. The two cross pieces are the bails. The whole is the wicket. This does not preclude the term wicket from being used with other meanings.
And just to further confuse the matter, the length of ground between the wickets is also called the wicket. Got it??
A Sticky wicket, as has been quite well described already, is caused by moisture in the dried, rolled ground of the wicket which accumulates overnight or through rain or mist. The ground then warps slightly in any heat producing unpredictable bowling results and great difficulties for the batsman. The conditions suit the medium to fast bowlers but can hinder spin bowlers more than they do the batsmen so I prefer to play on hot, dry days (when I take most of my wickets).
It is a little documented but true fact that, in Victorian times, the team which was bowling the following day would visit the wicket at the dead of night and urinate on the crease (batting patch) to create the sticky wicket effect.
Read George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman's Lady for a hilarious example of this unsporting behaviour!!
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