Wicket example sentences

Both skills were developed in response to subcontinental conditions: the doosra to counter aggressive batsmen with heavy modern bats who were threatening to make finger-spin obsolete and reverse swing to move the ball in on dusty, unresponsive wickets under clear skies.The latter ruling followed an innings by a batsman who appeared with a bat as wide as the wicket! In 1774, the first leg-before law was published.Even after boundaries were written into the laws of cricket, their distance from the wicket was not specified.Let us consider the following examples: when a fast moving cricket ball hits a stationary wicket, the wicket is thrown away.