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Cricket Action (Lynmouth, Devon, England: October 1942 )
 
Cricket Action
Lynmouth, Devon, England
June 2014
Gordon Jackson, Photographer
© 2014 J.E. McGowan.
Creative Commons 2.0 License.

References
Jackson, G. (2015). A Sticky Wicket. In Silver Linings (p. 41).
    Bon Air, Virginia: DR Publishers.
Knowles, E. (2005).
    Oxford dictionary of phrase and fable (2nd ed.).
    Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Keywords
Batting
Bowling
Cricket Pitch
Lynmouth, Devon
Phrase & Fable
Sticky Wicket

Chapter 11

A Sticky Wicket (Jackson)

When the pilot in the previous chapter tried to land the plane, he was figuratively caught playing on a sticky wicket, which the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable defines as:

"A cricket pitch that has been drying after rain and is difficult to bat on; a tricky or awkward situation. The term is recorded in its literal sense from 1882, in a reference to the Australians finding themselves on a sticky wicket; the first figurative example is found in the 1950s." (Knowles)

Tricky and awkward are appropriate adjectives to describe the challenges which my wife and I faced, as we owned a multi-tenant office building. Despite difficulties, we always went to bat.

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