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    Wicket (redirect from Put down the wicket)
    hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batter out. The wicket is guarded by a batter who, with their bat (and sometimes with their pads...
    14 KB (1,778 words) - 20:20, 25 September 2024
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    line of sight of a baseball batter, while facing the pitcher and awaiting a pitch. This dark surface allows the batter to see the pitched ball against...
    8 KB (908 words) - 18:13, 6 October 2024
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    pickup truck to batter down the wooden doors of the palace before entering and getting expelled by security forces. Because of work related to the construction...
    36 KB (4,051 words) - 10:18, 25 October 2024
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    machines used mechanical energy to fling large projectiles to batter down stone walls. Also used were the battering ram and the siege tower, a wooden...
    13 KB (1,638 words) - 05:45, 21 August 2024
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    to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter regardless...
    44 KB (6,628 words) - 04:49, 4 November 2024
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    A battering ram is a siege engine that originated in ancient times and was designed to break open the masonry walls of fortifications or splinter their...
    10 KB (1,410 words) - 22:52, 19 October 2024
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    which is played with the bat moving lateral to the direction of motion of the ball. Used when the batter is aiming square or behind square, but requires...
    221 KB (27,562 words) - 14:06, 18 November 2024
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    whether the ball has touched the bat, glove, or any part of the batter before going on to put down the wicket, though it may not touch another player or an umpire...
    5 KB (559 words) - 13:19, 8 July 2023
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    after it is struck by the striking batter, to limit the number of runs that the striker scores and/or to get a batter out by either catching a hit ball...
    29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:27, 21 November 2024
  • three batters and none safely reaches a base. "Three up, three down." A double play in which the pitcher (1) fields a batted ball and throws home to the...
    509 KB (69,337 words) - 05:03, 19 November 2024
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    to be called a strike even if the batter does not swing. The strike zone is defined as the volume of space above home plate and between the batter's knees...
    16 KB (2,106 words) - 21:18, 6 November 2024
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    other batter gets closer to it. Whether a batter is in or out of his ground is defined by Law 30 of the Laws of Cricket. So long as the batter has his...
    3 KB (309 words) - 21:14, 25 June 2024
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    pan before the batter is poured in, so that they form a baked-on topping after the cake is inverted. A simple cottage pudding cake batter may be used. The...
    6 KB (521 words) - 21:35, 29 October 2024
  • batters play through their team's innings, there always being two batters taking part at any one time. All eleven players in a team are required to bat...
    23 KB (3,104 words) - 11:20, 25 August 2024
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    when the batters are attempting to run between the wickets and the fielding team succeed in getting the ball to one of the wickets before a batter has crossed...
    14 KB (1,726 words) - 23:37, 9 November 2024
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    are made by steaming a batter consisting of fermented de-husked black lentils and rice. The fermentation process breaks down the starches so that they...
    16 KB (1,779 words) - 01:02, 5 November 2024
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    laid siege to the castle, captured seventeen knights and began to batter down the garrison with his siege engines. Ranulf managed to escape to his earldom...
    15 KB (2,017 words) - 17:54, 13 September 2024
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    ball is bowled illegally. The fielding team tries to prevent runs from being scored by dismissing batters (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include...
    113 KB (12,552 words) - 03:04, 27 October 2024
  • design was taken from those used by Hulegu to batter down the walls of Baghdad. The Chinese were the first to invent the traction trebuchet, now they faced...
    26 KB (3,321 words) - 15:27, 11 November 2024
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    from those used by Hulagu to batter down the walls of Baghdad in 1258. The counterweight trebuchets Hulagu used (referred to as "Frankish mangonels" in...
    55 KB (6,650 words) - 23:40, 8 October 2024
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