Word: wicketed
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...police later reconstructed it, one man got out of the car, cut the padlock on the store's outer wicket gate, then picked the lock on the inner door. That done, three more of the gang got out and went into the store with him, while a fifth accomplice put a new padlock on the gate to allay the suspicions of any passing policemen. Inside, the four men forced a safe and swept up a peck of rings, bracelets, watches and necklaces, worth over $110,000. But the night had just begun: in the safe the crooks also found...
Climbing out of his cockpit with a reassuring wave to the old Hurricane circling overhead, Pilot Maguire apologized to the cricketers for damaging their wicket, and joined them at tea in the pavilion. Tea concluded, the game was resumed. Pushed off the playing field, its propeller, undercarriage and one wing broken, Spitfire Sugar Love rested at last on the sidelines-a silent spectator of the way of life it had helped to preserve...
...batsman hits the ball in any direction, he runs to the other wicket and scores a run if he is not put out. Then, either he, or his batting partner, who stands at the opposite wicket, receives the next ball bowled and the game continues...
...cricket field has two wickets placed 22 yards apart in the center of the playing area. The wickets consist of three "stumps" stuck into the ground with two "bails," small wooden pieces, resting over the tops of the stumps. A wicket is "lost" when a batsman lets a ball thrown by the "bowler," go by him and hit one of the stumps, thus knocking off one or both bails...
Another mainstay of the Club is Jim Wolfenson, who is the wicket-keeper. The Club sorely misses Barry Eastment of Australia, the vice-captain of last year's team. This year's captain, John Frith, termed him "more than competent," both as an opening batsman and as a bowler. Lowe is filling the gap as batsman quite well, however, and Youll has stepped in as bowler...