Get to know Wicketkeeper better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Wicketkeeper in a sentence
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Wicketkeeper meaning
A player who stands behind the batsman’s wicket ready to catch the ball, or to stump the batsman.
Using Wicketkeeper
- The main meaning on this page is: A player who stands behind the batsman’s wicket ready to catch the ball, or to stump the batsman.
- In the example corpus, wicketkeeper often appears in combinations such as: the wicketkeeper, and wicketkeeper, to wicketkeeper.
Context around Wicketkeeper
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wicketkeeper
- In this selection, "wicketkeeper" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, non, specialist, deny, alex, batter and matt stand out and add context to how "wicketkeeper" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include australia deny wicketkeeper alex carey and australia s wicketkeeper until monday. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wicketkeeper" sits close to words such as acadia, ae and aes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wicketkeeper
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Close shave: Australia deny wicketkeeper Alex Carey has dodged paying for an Ashes haircut. (14 words)
The batter began to walk away before quickly turning around and exchanging words with England's wicketkeeper Bairstow. (18 words)
But it is the lack of a second specialist wicketkeeper in England’s squad that is of most interest. (19 words)
And, having played 11 Tests in three and a half years, he then had to wait until the retirement of wicketkeeper BJ Watling, after the World Test Championship final in 2021, for a proper crack at New Zealand’s XI. (40 words)
Donnell shared a 63-run stand with a patient Max Marinic, and was building another with Wilson, before he was caught behind by a brilliant catch to the Magpies wicketkeeper, who was standing-up to the stumps. (37 words)
An outstanding close fielder, he is the only non-wicketkeeper to have held over 1,000 catches in a first-class career, whilst his total number of runs scored is the second-highest of all time. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
And, having played 11 Tests in three and a half years, he then had to wait until the retirement of wicketkeeper BJ Watling, after the World Test Championship final in 2021, for a proper crack at New Zealand’s XI.
An outstanding close fielder, he is the only non-wicketkeeper to have held over 1,000 catches in a first-class career, whilst his total number of runs scored is the second-highest of all time.
Bangladesh broke through in just the third over on Day 4 when Nasir Jamal nicked to the wicketkeeper as fast bowler Ebadot Hossain (1-22) straightened one off the pitch to take the outside edge.
But it is the lack of a second specialist wicketkeeper in England’s squad that is of most interest.
Close shave: Australia deny wicketkeeper Alex Carey has dodged paying for an Ashes haircut.
Coach Andrew McDonald dropped out-of-form allrounder Cameron Green and wicketkeeper Alex Carey after the opening loss to hosts India, but those changes failed to prevent a South African onslaught.
Donnell shared a 63-run stand with a patient Max Marinic, and was building another with Wilson, before he was caught behind by a brilliant catch to the Magpies wicketkeeper, who was standing-up to the stumps.
England wicketkeeper Matt Prior was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council after a window was smashed in the dressing room at Lord’s, on this day in 2011.
Gilchrist got a touch on it and was caught behind by wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara, but the on-field decision was not out.
Hairdresser Adam Mahmood was quoted as saying Carey had yet to return to pay up, and gave Australia’s wicketkeeper until Monday to balance his bill.
He carried on batting but was out two overs later, top-edging a short ball to wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed for two, leaving Australia 2-5.
Indian wicketkeeper Srikar Bharat during a practice session at Narendra Modi stadium ahead of India vs Australia 4th Test match in Ahmedabad.
In the squad for the series against Afghanistan, there was no place for wicketkeeper-batter Jaker Ali, who was in Bangladesh’s squad for the home T20I series against Ireland.
It was followed by a splendid outside-off yorker length squeezed under the bat, and the throw from the wicketkeeper was back at him.
Lancashire eventually rested their front-line attack, throwing the ball to their batters – and wicketkeeper – for the second half of the day before the teams shook hands at 4.50pm.
On Saturday Forfarshire’s legendary wicketkeeper Alec Steele played his last cricket game of the season which marks an incredible milestone he once only dreamed of achieving.
Steve Smith was controversially lbw on review for 19, Josh Inglis clean bowled for five and Marcus Stoinis was caught by wicketkeeper De Kock down the legside for five by Rabada.
Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy have been amongst the wickets for KKR, who also have Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batter Litton Das joining them recently.
The batter began to walk away before quickly turning around and exchanging words with England's wicketkeeper Bairstow.
Wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne, Simon Harmer and Sarel Erwee discuss the controversial slip catch with Marnus Labuschagne (right) on the first day of the third Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Common combinations with wicketkeeper
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the wicketkeeper 17×
- and wicketkeeper 9×
- to wicketkeeper 9×
- wicketkeeper and 5×
- wicketkeeper matt 3×
- by wicketkeeper 3×
- while wicketkeeper 3×
- wicketkeeper quinton 3×
- wicketkeeper batsman 3×
- wicketkeeper wriddhiman 3×