�Up sticks' is not related to cricket - or Agincourt! - as many people seem to think, believing that lifting the wickets and leaving the pitch at the end of a match is where the idea of �going away' came from.
In fact, in the early 1800s, one meaning of the word 'sticks' was a ship's masts, yard-arms, spars and so on...in other words, all the upper �woodwork' associated with sailing-ships. Hence, for sailors to 'up sticks' was to organise their masts etc in preparation for departure. Consequently, it has come more recently to mean simply 'depart'.
There are some idioms in which the word 'sticks' refers to the wickets in cricket...'a great player behind the sticks' = a good wicket-keeper...a batsman with an injured foot might be said to be 'slow between the sticks' etc. But 'up sticks' is not one of them. The Oxford English Dictionary is quite clear on the nautical origin of the phrase, �up sticks'.