Sticky wicket as moisture evaporates. When covers were introduced into England's County Championship, John Woodcock wrote an article for the 1981 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, criticising the move, in an article titled, "Sticky dog is put down". He added, "I cannot forbear ... from lamenting ... a part of the very heritage of English cricket – a drying pitch and a sizzling sun." In the game of croquet, the phrase "sticky wicket" may refer to a hoop (wicket) that is difficult for a ball to go through because of the narrowness of the opening. This usage is confined to the United States. An
A Day in the Stark Corner A Day in the Stark Corner A Day in the Stark Corner is the third studio album by the American Dark Wave band Lycia, released on by Projekt Records. Mike VanPortfleet has attributed a lack of quality recording equipment as having a profound effect on Stark Corner's sound. Ned Raggett of Allmusic gave it 4 out of 5 stars, describing it as being "a series of similar sounding pieces which work wonderfully as an extended mood setter." In MK Ultra Issue No. 1, (1995) Peter Steele of Type O Negative said Adapted from the "A Day in the Stark Corner"