Word: wicket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...challenged for foreign cinema honors. With immense pomp, with money said to have been furnished by the French Government, the people of Paris have started turning out a series of historical pictures. Call it propaganda if you will. They expect to sell it to the world under the admission wicket...
...five test matches, Australia had won two. These were the crucial innings. Australia had knocked up 739 runs, England 728, and the last man was in. A run was hit, off sped the batsmen along the pitch-too late! An alert "Kangaroo" had shot the ball into the wicket keeper's gloved hands and a fraction of a second later the ball flew off the stumps just a fraction of a second before the English batsman could shove his bat over the "popping crease" (batting line). England was beaten. Loud cheers and glad faces in Australia. Silence and long...
...protractedness of cricket is due to the fact that the batsman is not obliged by rule either to make a run or be put out within any given number of bowls. His prime function is to prevent the ball from striking his wicket. Interminable defensive play ("stonewalling") is thus possible-as it would be in baseball if a batter were adroit enough to foul safely off an indefinite number of pitches...