Word: wicket
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Annand's run out was the prettiest play of the day. His partner, who was batting, made a draw towards long leg. The ball, however, only went fifteen or twenty feet, and long leg was way out. Annand called for a run, Sullivan, who was keeping wicket, ran for the ball, got it, and turned around and threw for his wicket, knocking one of the stumps out of the ground a second before Annand grounded his bat within the crease. Davis also made a good one hand catch. Brown bowled well, getting nine wickets for a little less than...
...member of the Germantown Cricket club, and two or three years since, in a match between Germantown and Young America, when the former made the largest one-inning score yet made in this country, 418, he went in first with G. S.Patterson and made 30 run before losing his wicket. He is a good all-round cricketer...
...conditions. Haverford went to the bat first, and by steady play piled up 85 runs, Muir leading with 19. Sharper fielding by Harvard would have kept the score lower. Brown and Garrett led off in Harvard's first innings. and made 25 runs in quick succession before the first wicket fell. After that the side was retired rapidly by the puzzling balls of Martin and Baily. The game was stopped by rain after Haverford had begun a second innings, in which they were being quickly disposed of. The chances seemed to be in favor of a considerable improvement in Harvard...
...following week against the Mystics for 39 runs; at the end of the spring term, had the magnificent average of 59.50, and his average for the year was: 6 inning, twice not out 149 runs, average 37.25. His bowling average the same year reads: 336 balls, 15 maidens, 23 wickets, 90 runs-average 3.913 per wicket...
Runs at the fall of each wicket...