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"Only one ticket booth was open. He went up to it. The girl behind the wicket sat flipping the pages of an illustrated colour magazine that contained pictures of film stars."
- 'The Colour Of Blood', Brian Moore.
Unfortunately the days of sticky wickets are pretty much gone. It use to be the practice not to cover the pitch at night. Although they are supposedly turf, the grass on a wicket is usually dead. If it rained overnight a wicket would often turn soft and muddy, ie. sticky. These things were really tricky to play on for the batting team. Hence the Brit expression "to be on a sticky wicket" meaning to be in some difficulty. Nowadays pitches are usually covered, especially at international level. Down at amateur level there are plenty of clubs that don't cover turf pitches so you'll still get a real stickydog from time to time.
Women's cricket is widely played these days.
Seduction of nymphets by all of the mentioned methods is also, I suspect, a popular pastime.
What makes a wicket sticky?
And how do you bowl a maiden over? Roses? perfume? Chocolate?
Cricket jargon - 1. a structure made up of three wooden stumps inserted in the ground and two bails resting on top; 2. the playing surface for the game, also known as a pitch; 3. a dismissal or 'out' in the game.