WICKET OR PITCH?
| sir,-WDictionaries will not settle this question. The Concise Oxford says the wicket is three stumps with bails; pitch is the place between and about wickets; state of pitch may be called wicket. Thig agrees with "Quidnune." Two other dictionaries follow the O.E.D., three give the pitch and wicket separate entities and two say the pitch is the pitch and is also the wicket. They cannot all be correct, The M.C.C, Laws of Cricket give the only correct definition of wicket. Law 6 says that each wicket consists of three stumps and two bails pitched opposite and parallel to each other twenty-two yards apert. In all their other Laws this holds good, i.e., "The Popping Crease shall be marked four feet from the wicket," etc, Pitch-is not mentioned; it is always the ground. How do you mow this wicket? With a spokeshave? If, in a revision of Law 9 the M.C.C. s’‘"In week-end starts the wicket shall be mown," have they revised Law 6 also? ; Cannot our. cricket match announcers refrain from the phrase, "The batsman returned the ball to the bowler down the wicket"? Why "down"? The pitch is usually level. Why not "along the pitch"? The latter phrase is used occasionally; the former peppers some brogdcasts. If the batsman hits a ball on to the wicket he is ont.
R.
PAPE
(Tolaga Bay).
(This correspondence is now closed.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 5
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232WICKET OR PITCH? New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 5
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