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What is a wicket in cricket?

Baseball translation: an out (also: the strike zone made physical, and the field itself)

Three meanings: (1) getting a batter out ('a wicket falls'), (2) the three wooden stumps behind the batter, (3) the strip of dirt they play on. In scores like 145/3, the 3 is wickets — think outs.

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