wickets

noun

Meaning

A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
The period during which two batsmen bat together.

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