round the wicket

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round the wicket

  1. (cricket) Alternative form of around the wicket.
    • 2011, Steven Lynch, Wisden on the Ashes: The Authoritative Story of Cricket's Greatest Rivalry‎[1]:
      Benaud, bowling round the wicket and pitching into the rough of Trueman's footholds, brought such a collapse that in 20 minutes to tea England virtually lost the game.
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