• at the wicket Cricket 【板球】 1 batting　击球 the batsman remained at the wicket．　击球手仍在击球

• ２ by the wicketkeeper　被守门员（…） he was caught at the wicket　chasing a wide one．　他在追击一个投偏球时被守门员截住了

• keep wicket Cricket　be a wicketkeeper 【板球】 　守门

• lose a wicket Cricket　（of a fielding side） have a batsman dismissed 【板球】 （防守方）击球手出局

• a sticky wicket Cricket a pitch that has been drying after rain and is difficult to bat on　【板球】 （雨后）周围场地泥泞的三柱门

• ［in sing．］ informal a tricky or awkward situation　〈非正式〉 困境，不利地位 I might be　on a sticky wicket　if I used that line．　如果我当时采取那种方式的话，我也许就会处境不利

• over the wicket Cricket　（referring to which side of the wicket a bowler runs when bowling） to the left of the wicket if a right-handed bowler and the right of the wicket if a left-handed bowler 【板球】 （投球手）朝自己投球使用的手相反方向跑

• round the wicket Cricket　（referring to which side of the wicket a bowler runs when bowling） to the right of the wicket if a right-handed bowler and the left of the wicket if a left-handed bowler【板球】 （投球手）朝自己投球使用的手一致的方向跑

• take a wicket Cricket　（of a bowler or a fielding side） dismiss a batsman　【板球】 （投球手，防守方）使击球员出局，把击球员杀出局

"Middle English （in the sense　‘small door or grille’）： from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French wiket；　origin uncertain, usually referred to the Germanic root of Old Norse vīkja　‘to turn, move’．　Cricket senses date from the late 17th cent．"