sticky wicket

The following day, the pitch dried out under the hot sun and turned into a sticky wicket.

The full phrase is thought to have originally been "to bat on a sticky wicket."

On such sticky wickets his return of 14 for 43 beat Hampshire in a day's cricket.

Which means he's batting on a very sticky wicket.

Athletics problems are sticky wickets that must be confronted with a sustained effort.

Morris won the toss and elected to bat on a sticky wicket.

Actually, this one turns out to be a sticky wicket (as they say, um, somewhere, I think).

The unbeaten 150 was achieved on a sticky wicket.

Heavy rain fell overnight, and next day the pitch soon developed into a traditional sticky wicket.

Could proof to be a bit of a sticky wicket for BO later on.

"It was a sticky wicket yesterday, sir, owing to the rain."

But a sticky wicket, he explained, occurs in cricket.

"Well, this is quite a sticky wicket you've handed us, Skeeter."

Play resumed only 10 minutes late the next day, but "England were twice caught on sticky wickets.

However, he never truly mastered batting on sticky wickets.

He was often extremely difficult on sticky wickets but very rarely effective on good ones.

"A bit of a sticky wicket, that, old boy.

It's a sticky wicket, but when this approach works, it certainly raises the fun quotient of fashion.

"That could be a sticky wicket," he said.

It's a sticky wicket that bumps while breaking down."

Trying to get Europe playing cricket, the bungling duo are on a sticky wicket.

Generally dusty and shorn off grass, the rain here also makes it a "sticky wicket".

And Sissy was left with her virginity intact, throttling a sticky wicket.

Therefore, it's on, not through, the sticky wicket.