# Awwright Wikkit, enough's enough **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 11, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907 "2003-01-11T05:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/21 "2003-01-11T15:38:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HenrySpencer \* > **That’s one of the more interesting descriptions I’ve seen of how cricket is played 😃** Well it was pretty good for an American, right? :D. I was going from dim memory there and the last fucking thing I was going to do was Google it up. Thanks for the correction. **Cisco** , this jole was in the Pit because the sticky in question was in the Pit. Haj ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/22 "2003-01-11T15:59:25Z")
I think the most important thing here was the definition of Wikkit. Key to the whole matter, really. Whop. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/23 "2003-01-11T16:02:15Z")
Plus, the wickets are bit taller than a foot, closer to 2.5, IIRC. I remember playing cricket for the first time when I was living in London. One of my friends, a guy who played cricket somewhat regularly, decided to take me playing with him. We decided it would be a good idea for me to learn the rules, so we practiced in the cage, with me bowling at first and him batting. After I sort of got the hang of bowling (I had to really pay attention so I wouldn’t bend my elbow), I went to bat. He starts making jokes and saying that I shouldn’t worry, he’d go easy on me. It’s important to note at this point that I played baseball for about ten years, and I wasn’t shabby (just couldn’t hit a breaking ball to save my life). So after a few practice bowls with him bowling fairly slowly and me just practicing the motion of the basic swing, he says, “Pretty good, let’s see if you can hit this one.” He bowls a lot harder than he had been, but I still had enough time to do a quick windup and nearly took his head off with a line drive right back at him. Good times. I’m still proud of that. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/24 "2003-01-11T16:18:05Z")
Cisco, don’t make me tell you to _“Wikkit where the one don’t whine.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/25 "2003-01-11T16:29:01Z")
From _Wisden Almanack_, 2002: Law 8, The Wickets: (2, Size of Stumps): The tops of the stumps shall be **28in/71.1cm** above the playing surface and shall be dome-shaped except for the bail grooves. The portion of a stump above the playing surface shall be cylindrical, apart from the domed top, with a circular section of diameter not less than 1 3-8in/3.49cm nor more than 1 1-2in/3.81cm. So there, **Neurotik** and **haj** 😃 Interesting how cricket has bowed to the metric system (I think the Laws have been in metric since the '80’s now). Sticky wickets are fun to bowl on. (Shameless nostalgia about to start) I was playing for the Jesus College Graduate XI against St. John’s on a wicket which hadn’t been covered in days, days in which torrential rain had fallen. Before the match I bowled two practice balls of off-spin. One went straight through and the other turned “square.” The match started, we batted first and got about 120. The first ball I bowled pitched about a foot or more outside off-stump on a good length. The batsman stepped out to drive the ball–and the ball bounced high, turned almost 90 degrees, and clipped off the bails. I still remember their guy turning around to look at the stumps and try to figure out what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/26 "2003-01-11T16:47:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TVeblen \* > \*\*Wikkit wit. > > So that’s a _problem_? > > Veb \*\* You mean you don’t want to ban him for this??? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/27 "2003-01-11T16:50:54Z")
Wikkit: Your email must not have stuck. I can’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/28 "2003-01-11T21:16:23Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Cisco_ > Oh…Wow. Maybe I’m just in an asshole mood tonight but that just doesn’t strike me as the least bit funny. He didn’t say it was _funny_, he said it was a _pun_. Not at all the same thing, dontchano? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/29 "2003-01-11T21:29:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Cisco, don’t make me tell you to _“Wikkit where the one don’t whine.”_ \*\* LOL, OK, OK, I apologize! 😛 😛 😃 Early Out: same teacher 3 times in a row _does_ look like I kept failing, even I noticed that after I posted it :). ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/30 "2003-01-11T21:34:58Z")
Is your listed e-mail address correct? Anyway, the last line of your most recent Teemings cortribution says, “Bullets bounce of me.” I could be wrong, but I thing “off” would make more sense. The rest of the e-mail was just me kissing ass. Foop. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/31 "2003-01-11T23:43:14Z")
Hmmmm, I always thought the term ‘sticky wicket’ came from croquet, where a sticky wicket would be one that the balls have trouble going through. I actually found it referenced [here](http://sportsidioms.com/page/6.htm). I wonder which sport was the actual basis for the phrase, and which sport stole it… ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/32 "2003-01-12T00:42:53Z")
Cricket. That’s why we had the damn revolution. It wasn’t about taxation. It was about getting the breathing room to invent baseball. Now stop it you cricketers! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/33 "2003-01-12T03:10:03Z")
Dear _ **Scylla** _, ``` We regret that we find no longer find your humour frumious. Please arbargle your shuzzniks. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/34 "2003-01-12T04:27:55Z")
Wikkit: My email works, and I found your email. It was there in between 14 advertisements for teen lesbians, free credit services, and how to enlarge my penises. I will respond shortly with apologies for having missed it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/35 "2003-01-12T11:52:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\*I was going from dim memory there and the last fucking thing I was going to do was Google it up. \*\* I think you mean **Googly** BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I crack myself up.😃 ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/36 "2003-01-12T12:47:36Z")
Oh bugger, **GuanoLad** , now someone’s going to have to explain _that_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/37 "2003-01-12T14:47:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > **and how to enlarge my penises.** You know, if _I_ had more than one penis, I’d name at least two of them “Bob” and “Weave”. Unless you keep yours in jars. In which case, I’d name 'em “De” and “Ceased”. Ahem. Carry on. I’m going to go back and finish reading _Something Wikkit This Way Comes_. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/38 "2003-01-12T18:34:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tavalla \* > \*\*Oh bugger, **GuanoLad** , now someone’s going to have to explain _that_. > > 😃 \*\* A googly is when a leg-spin bowler delivers in such a way that… Nah, fuck it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/39 "2003-01-13T00:55:56Z")
[http://members.tripod.com/~sccwa/cktlist.html#EtoH](http://members.tripod.com/~sccwa/cktlist.html#EtoH) gives a picture of a Googly while a Chinaman is the left-handed version. (And popups galore, sorry). ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907/40 "2003-01-13T08:46:41Z")
Nice try, **Michael Ellis**. It pained me to follow your off-topic post with another one, but, in view of this thread, it would have looked bad if I hadn’t. Despite the nick, I’ve never actually seen a game of cricket being played. I look forward to it, if I ever stumble upon one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awwright-wikkit-enoughs-enough/147907.md?page=1)