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wicket

one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of a cricket pitch, guarded by a batsman who, with his bat, attempts to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket; named after "wicket gate", a small gate, which it historically resembled
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wicket

Summary

wicket ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (449 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • wicket's image is recorded as Highgate Cricket Club wicket at Crouch End, Haringey, London, England 01.jpg[2].
  • wicket's image is recorded as Bishop's Stortford Cicket Club cricket stumps, Hertfordshire 1.jpg[3].
  • wicket's image is recorded as Aythorpe Roding Cricket Club pitch wicket stumps and bales, Essex, England 2.jpg[4].
  • wicket's subclass of is recorded as sports equipment[5].
  • wicket's Commons category is recorded as Wickets[6].
  • wicket's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q1571 (mar)-Neelima64-बळी.wav[7].
  • wicket's has part is recorded as stump[8].
  • wicket's has part is recorded as bail[9].
  • wicket's sport is recorded as cricket[10].
  • wicket's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02cm1w[11].
  • wicket's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300211082[12].
  • wicket's schematic is recorded as Cricket Stumps en.svg[13].
  • wicket's schematic is recorded as Cricket - Stumps.svg[14].
  • wicket's Lex ID is recorded as wicket[15].
  • wicket's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04590155-n[16].

Why It Matters

wicket ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (449 views/month).[1] wicket has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). wicket. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/wicket
MLA “wicket.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/wicket.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_wicket_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{wicket}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/wicket}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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