What is the difference between a wicket, a wicket and a wicket?

Question

Cricket terminology does confuse me a lot. Consider this:

1. When a bowler gets a batsman out, he gets a "wicket"

2. When the pitch has a lot of pace and bounce, it's called a "fast wicket"

3. When a fielder throws down the stumps with the ball, it is said that he has "broken the wicket"

So what on earth is a wicket? To complify things further, the 22-yard area between the two set of stumps is called the "wicket", the "pitch" and the "Track".

So if three things have the same term, and the same thing has three different terms, how are novices like me going to understand the game? So who or what is responsible for the origin of this wicket-wicket-wicket confusion?

Answer 1

The origin of the word 'wicket' was to refer to the stumps because of their resemblance to wicket gates, and according to the source I found, was first used in cricket in 1733.
In terms of getting a wicket, remembering that originally there were far fewer ways of dismissing a batsman than there are today, the bost common way of dismissing a batsman was bowled. This was (and is) referred to as the wicket falling, or fall of wicket.
Same goes for the bowler "breaking the wicket".
Not sure how the pitch ever came to be called the wicket.
As for things having more than one term, that isn't unique to cricket at all - football (in all its forms, depending on your origin) has its field variously referred to as the track, the field, the paddock, the sward and a host of other titles. I think you have to look at that as being part of the rich tapestry of sport...

Answer 2

my friend, english is a funny language. as u r confused here with the use of the word wicket by everybody at different places with differnt meaning let me make onething clear to u. see u got to understand the meaning of the word by looking at its usage as bcz it is modern english . then only u can tell the meaning of wicket.for ex:-
1-the wicket is flat and dry.----- here the meaning of wicket is the pitch.
2-the bowler has taken 200 wickets.---- here wicket means the number of batsman he has made out.
3-the fielder aimed at the wickets.---- here wicket refers to the stumps.
see that. its simple . isnot it. now as far my knowlage goes the different meaning of wicket were given by the earlier commentators of cricket.

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Answer 4

not a big deal if u really know the sport.....and cricket is not the only sport with a same term having diff. meanings..... infact leave aside sports this happens with the language in general too.... for instance....tk the word..."bow"