Croquet
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Croquet is a sport which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite 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 the sport of cricket, the term wicket has several meanings:
Croquet
…Croquet (UK: or US: ) is a sport which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. The sport was codified in England in the 1860s and then spread overseas. However, similar games…
A wicket
The Young Cricketer by Francis Cotes in 1768 features the original two-stump 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