Croquet
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Croquet is a sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded in a grass playing court.
Modern croquet equipment
Leon Wyczółkowski, A Game of Croquet (1892–1895), National Museum, Warsaw
Croquet being played at a club in the UK. Four balls are visible on the lawn — black, green, red, and brown — showing that two games are in progress (known as "double-banking"): red and black belong to one game, green and brown to the other
Croquet being played recreationally in Wetherby, West Yorkshire
Wicket
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In cricket, the term wicket has several meanings:It is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batter out.
The wicket is guarded by a batter who, with their bat, attempts to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket and to score runs where possible.
Through metonymic usage, the dismissal of a batter is known as the taking of a wicket,
The cricket pitch itself is sometimes referred to as the wicket.
A wicket
A ball from Bill O'Reilly hits the stumps but does not dislodge the bail, Sydney, 1932. The wicket was not put down, and so the batter (Herbert Sutcliffe) was not out.
A scoreboard showing the total runs scored and wickets lost