<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=290221.msg14265159#msg14265159">Quote from: Mechelle on July 10, 2018, 04:46:09 pm</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Surely, Steffy, whether or not bowling over is a good thing must depend on your point of view. The batsman might not want to see the wicket go flying when it's bowled over, but the bowler would!<br/><br/>There is also an expression of bowling a maiden over. I know this will conjure up images (Steffy?) but an over is the sequence of six balls which a bowler bowls before another bowler bowls another six balls from the other end of the wicket. If the batsman, or batsmen, fail to score a run from those six balls, then that is a maiden over.<br/><br/>Edited - I have just thought that could be confusing. A wicket can be both the set of sticks which the batsman tries to defend with his bat, but it's also the area between the two sets of sticks at either end of the, er, wicket. Clear, I hope?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I can just hear Aggers and Vaughan talking about this on TMS, my dear old thing!<br/><br/>Better not go into the pigeons too, Mechelle, it confuses people!<br/><br/>I might be on a sticky wicket there (now that's another image!)