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A cricket wicket is nine inches wide
Three stumps stand 71.1 centimetres tall with two bails balanced on top Each wicket is 22.86 centimetres wide and 71.12 centimetres high, with the three stumps close enough together that a ball cannot pass between them. The two bails sit in grooves on top and must fall for a batter to be bowled. A bail may not project more than half an inch above the stumps. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A cricket wicket is nine inches wide: the short answers
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- Three stumps stand 71.1 centimetres tall with two bails balanced on top. The figure is taken from Marylebone Cricket Club, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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