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World Service,9 mins

Where do cricket terms like sticky wicket come from?

Stumped

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Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Prakash Wakankar explore the language of Cricket with English lexicographer Susie Dent and the Head Librarian of Melbourne’s Cricket Ground David Studham. (Picture credit: Getty Images)

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