| AWRY | A wicket with line wrong |
| STUMP | One of the three upright pieces forming a wicket with the bails (5) |
| BAIL | A bucket for ladling water from a boat; a partition in a stable; a bar on a typewriter; a hoop; a semicircular handle; a crosspiece bridging a wicket's stumps; or, a temporary release from custody (4) |
| CLERICALERROR | Churchman gets a line wrong - a faulty type? |
| ALIEN | A foreigner may get a line wrong (5) |
| FLUFF | Get a line wrong and misplay golf shot (5) |
| ELIAN | Like Lamb to get a line wrong (5) |
| GATE | Northern dialect for a path, street or way; a wicket or other hinged barrier in a fence, hedge or wall; a portal; a hole or aperture, such as the eye of a needle; or, a mountain pass (4) |
| BAT | Be at the wicket with a flying fox (3) |
| BATON | Continue at the wicket with a policeman's stick |
| RULEOUT | Forbid to draw the line wrong |
| STUMPING | A dismissal in cricket in which the wicketkeeper breaks the wicket with the batting player out of the crease (8) |
| WEIGHTY | Important wicket, with score less than 100 |
| TWEAK | Take wicket with spin, thus? |
| WHEEL | Wicket with slope offering turn |
| INFIDEL | Literally, 9 players near wicket, with tail-ender appearing early (7) |
| MUTTIAHMURALITHARAN | Sri Lankan bowler who took his 800th wicket with his final ball in his last Test match (7,12) |
| ISHANT | First Indian to take an international wicket with the pink ball (6) |
| ELEVEN | Cricket team looking at wicket with middle stump removed?(6) |
| HATTRICK | In cricket, the achievement of a bowler taking three wickets with successive balls (3-5) |
