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around the wicket

around the wicket prepositional phrase: bowling the ball from the side of the wicket that puts the bowler's bowling hand farther from the wicket.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Bowling the ball from the side of the wicket that puts the bowler's bowling hand farther from the wicket

Antonyms of around the wicket

Forms of around the wicket

alternative formround the wicket

Questions about around the wicket

What does around the wicket mean?
Around the wicket means bowling the ball from the side of the wicket that puts the bowler's bowling hand farther from the wicket.
What part of speech is around the wicket?
Around the wicket is a prepositional phrase.

Words near around the wicket in the dictionary

  1. around the clock
  2. around the corner
  3. around the horn
  4. around the traps
  5. around the way
  6. around the wicket
  7. around the world
  8. around the worlds
  9. around-the-clock
  10. aroundness
  11. aroura

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