hit wicket

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hit wicket adverb

Describing a method of dismissal of a batsman (out) in which the batsman hits his own wicket either with the bat or his body, usually while attempting to play the ball.

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bowled leg before wicket timed out caught behind inside out over the wicket cheaply hit the ball twice short in-off fine dead weight plain ball the other way up the gut down

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