# 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

**Wikidata**: [Q1196454](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1196454)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicket)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/wicket


## References

1. [Source](https://lingualibre.org/wiki//Q502930)
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013