sticky wicket

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sticky wicket

a cricket pitch that is rapidly being dried by the sun after rain and is particularly conducive to spin

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No references found			Byline: GARETH LIGHTFOOT A TEESSIDE cricketer on a sticky wicket over a spree of shop thefts has been given one last chance to prove he can play with a straight bat. SHOPLIFTER'S FINAL CHANCE; Cricketer on thefts spree is spared jail by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) He clubbed a perfectly timed 69 to provide the ballast to England's 270-7 from their 50 overs on a slow sticky wicket in Guyana. Cricket: ALL A BLUR FOR COLLY; WINDIES v ENGLAND, ODI by The Mirror (London, England) Stanford's legend as a cricket supporter is well known in the West Indies, where cricket is beloved, and particularly in Antigua, where he built a West Indies Cricket Hall of Fame, a restaurant called the Sticky Wicket and the nearby Stanford Cricket Grounds. West Indies could lose major financier if Stanford falls by AFP / AFP Global Edition			Stickiness Stickiness Meter sticking sticking board sticking coefficient sticking plaster Stickland reaction Stickleback Stickles, Jeremy Stickley, Gustav Stickney, A. B. Sticks&Stones sticks-and-clay chimney sticks-and-mud chimney stickwork sticky sticky analysis sticky bit sticky cement sticky charge sticky connection sticky content sticky end sticky grenade sticky timer sticky wicket StickyKeys stiction Stieber, Wilhelm Stiedry, Fritz Stiegel, Henry William Stieglitz Stieglitz, Alfred Stieglitz, Julius Stieler, Adolf Stieltjes Integral Stieltjes transform Stieltjes, Thomas Jan Stiernhielm, Georg stiff stiff frame stiff leaf stiff-leg derrick stiff-mud brick stiffback stiffened compression element stiffened expanded metal stiffened seated-beam connection stiffened-shell fuselage stiffener stiffening angle			sticky chicken sticky chicken sticky chicken sticky connection Sticky content Sticky deal Sticky Deals sticky end sticky end sticky end sticky ends sticky ends sticky ends sticky fingers sticky fingers Sticky Fingers (album) sticky floor phenomenon sticky food sticky geranium sticky grenade sticky kid syndrome Sticky note Sticky notes Sticky purple geranium Sticky tape Sticky tape Sticky tape Sticky tape sticky timer Sticky toffee pudding sticky wicket sticky willie sticky-fingered stickybeak stickybeaked stickybeaking stickybeaks StickyKeys Stickyweed Stickywilly Sticle Golite-n Pahare cu Gheata STICO STICS STICSA Stiction Stiction Stictomys Stictopelia Stictopelia cuneata STICU STID STIDA STIDB STIDC Stiddy STIDP

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