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- 1730c.1 + (<p>"In the infancy of the game [cric … <p>"In the infancy of the game [cricket] the batsman stood before a circular hole in the turf, and was put out, as in 'rounders,' by being caught, or by the ball being put in this hole. A century and a half ago this hole was still in use, though it had on each side a stump only one foot high, with a long cross-bar of two feet in length laid on top of them."</p></br><p>Robert MacGregor, <u>Pastimes and Players</u> (Chatto and Windus, London, 1881), page 4, accessed 1/30/10 via Google Books search ("pastimes and players"). MacGregor gives no source for this claim. Note that MacGregor does not say that such practice was uniformly used in this period. <b>Query:</b> have later writers specified in more detail when the hole and the low long wicket disappeared from cricket?</p>d in more detail when the hole and the low long wicket disappeared from cricket?</p>)