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Wicket vs Wicketless - What's the difference?

wicket | wicketless |

In cricket terms the difference between wicket and wicketless

is that wicket is the area around the stumps where the batsmen stand while wicketless is having failed to gain a single wicket.

As a noun wicket

is a small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.

As an adjective wicketless is

having failed to gain a single wicket.

wicket

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.
  • A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386:
    • As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket .
  • (British) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a (ticket barrier) at a rail station.
  • (cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
  • (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
  • (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
  • (cricket) The pitch.
  • (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
  • (croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
  • (skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
  • (US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
    • (Bartlett)
  • (mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
    • (Raymond)
  • (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.

    • Derived terms

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    wicketless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (cricket) Having failed to gain a single wicket
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 14, author=AAP, title=Nathan Bracken returns to No.1 in ODI bowling rankings, work=Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=Vettori paid the price for a wicketless outing in the final one-day international against the West Indies on Tuesday, slipping from first place to second. }}