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
Ukridge Rounds a Nasty Corner attend the meeting, as her precious parrot was sick. Ukridge reveals that the plucky Millie had plied the parrot with Peppo, rendering it dangerously inebriated. Millie and Ukridge would later marry, and on occasion rely on Lady Elizabeth to pull them out of hot water, as in "Love Among the Chickens" (1913). Ukridge Rounds a Nasty Corner "Ukridge Rounds a Nasty Corner" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the January 1924 issue of "Cosmopolitan" and in the United Kingdom in the February 1924 "Strand". It features the irrepressible Stanley Featherstonehaugh