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A sticky wicket (or sticky dog, or glue pot) [1] is a metaphor [2] used to describe a difficult circumstance. It originated as a term for difficult circumstances in the sport of cricket, caused by a damp and soft wicket. [3]
Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre [1] (originally known as the Desert Sky Pavilion and most recently known as Ak-Chin Pavilion) [2] is an amphitheater located in Phoenix, Arizona, which seats 8,106 under a pavilion roof and an additional 12,000 on a hillside behind the main stands. [3] It officially opened on November 9, 1990 (Billy Joel was ...
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre; 66-foot) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails (small sticks) balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding ...
Gillidanda. Two boys playing gillidanda on the ghats of the Ganga river in Varanasi, India. Gillidanda is an ancient sport originating from South Asia that is still widely played throughout South Asia. The sport is also found as far north as the Mediterranean and as far east as Southeast Asia. It was a precursor to cricket in South Asia.
The Twelfth Man. The Twelfth Man (also known as The 12th Man) is the name for a series of comedy productions by Australian satirist Billy Birmingham. Birmingham, a skilled impersonator, is generally known for parodying Australian sports commentators ' voices. As befits the name (a reference to the non-playing reserve in an eleven-player cricket ...
The sport of cricket has a known history beginning in the late 16th century England. It became an established sport in the country in the 18th century and developed globally in the 19th and 20th centuries. International matches have been played since the 19th-century and formal Test cricket matches are considered to date from 1877.
Type. Indoor–outdoor. Equipment. pelota, xistera /cesta. Jai alai (/ ˈhaɪ.əlaɪ / HYE-ə-lye: [ˈxai aˈlai]) is a sport involving bouncing a ball off a walled-in space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held wicker, commonly referred to as a cesta. It is a variation of Basque pelota.
Wicket. A wicket. In the sport of cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: It is either of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at each end of the pitch. [1] The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batter out. The wicket is guarded by a batter who, with their bat (and sometimes with ...