page_title: Wicket
section_title: Dismissal of a batsman
hierarchical_section_title: Wicket / Dismissal of a batsman
caption_attribution_description: English: Cricket ground scoreboard during a Saturday early season public cricket match between Loughton Cricket Club 1st XI and Ardleigh Green &amp; Havering-Atte-Bower Cricket Club 1st XI, at Loughton, Essex, England, in 2019. Both teams play in the Shepherd Neame Essex League.Mobile device view: Wikimedia (as at 2019) makes it difficult to immediately view photo groups related to this image. To see its most relevant allied photos, click on Loughton Cricket Club, Ardleigh Green &amp; Havering-Atte-Bower Cricket Club, and this uploader's Cricket photos. You can add a beta click-through 'categories' button to the very bottom of photo-pages you view by going to settings... three-bar icon top left.Desktop view: Wikimedia (as at 2019) makes it difficult to immediately view the helpful category links where you can find images related to this one in a variety of ways; for these go to the very bottom of the page.This image is one of a series of date and/or subject allied consecutive photographs kept in progression or location by file name number and/or time marking.Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II with Canon EF 24-105mm F4L IS USM lens.Software: File lens-corrected, optimized, perhaps cropped, with DxO PhotoLab, and likely further optimized with Adobe Photoshop CS2.
context_page_description: In cricket, the term wicket has several meanings:
  It is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch.
  The wicket is guarded by a batsman who, with his bat, attempts to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket and to score runs where possible.
  Through metonymic usage, the dismissal of a batsman is known as the taking of a wicket,
  The cricket pitch itself is sometimes referred to as the wicket.
context_section_description: The dismissal of a batsman is known as the taking of a wicket. The batsman is said to have lost his wicket, the batting side is said to have lost a wicket, the fielding side to have taken a wicket, and the bowler is also said to have taken his (i.e. the batsman's) wicket, if the dismissal is one of the types for which the bowler receives credit. This language is used even if the dismissal did not actually involve the stumps and bails in any way, for example, a catch. Though note that the other four of the five most common methods of dismissal (bowled, LBW, run out, and stumped) involve the stumps and bails being put down (in the case of LBW, theoretically). 
  The word wicket has this meaning in the following contexts:
caption: A scoreboard showing the total runs scored and wickets lost
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