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round the wicket

round the wicket is the alternative form of around the wicket.

Meaning of around 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

Questions about round the wicket

What is round the wicket the alternative form of?
Round the wicket is the alternative form of around the wicket.

Words near round the wicket in the dictionary

  1. round the bend
  2. round the clock
  3. round the corner
  4. round the Horn
  5. round the twist
  6. round the wicket
  7. round to
  8. round top
  9. round tops
  10. round trip
  11. round trips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: round the wicket (page history and authors); around the wicket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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