| PITCHED | Hit the wicket |
| PITCH | Hit the wicket, as the ball may do (5) |
| SLIP | In cricket, the position of the fielder who stands a little behind and to the offside of the wicket |
| STUMPING | A dismissal in cricket in which the wicketkeeper breaks the wicket with the batting player out of the crease (8) |
| BAIL | Either of the small wooden bars placed across the tops of the stumps to form the wickets in the game of cricket (4) |
| KEEPER | The man behind the wicket may look after the animals (6) |
| SLOUGHOFDESPOND | Deep bog lying between the City of Destruction and the Wicket Gate in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (6,2,7) |
| SIGHTSCREEN | In cricket, a large white panel set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batter in seeing the ball when it is bowled (5,6) |
| TOSSINGUP | Seeing how the wicket takes spin, before fixing the batting order |
| BATHE | To be at the wicket, he comes next to the dip (5) |
| EDGES | In cricket, snicks off the bat which are usually caught behind the wicket. (5) |
| INCREASED | Stayed at the wicket before declaration, initially, as the score mounted (9) |
| KEEPING | Behind the wicket, one pen is wrong in the barrel (7) |
| CLAPPEDOUT | Tired as Bradman was on coming to the wicket for the last time? |
| STAND | A partnership of two cricketers batting at the wicket or the runs made during it (5) |
| MENDIS | Umar Gul topped the wicket charts for the second World Cup in a row, taking thirteen wickets. Malinga, Ajmal, and which bowler tied at second place with twelve wickets each? |
| PAD | Worn by the two batters and the wicket-keeper as protection |
| INFIELD | Batting with the opposing players close to the wicket (7) |
| BUYS | Pays the price for unearned runs behind the wicket, caught (4) |
| BATON | Even if it's passed in the relay, keep going at the wicket (5) |
