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Ladies' Wicket in England?

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Females
City/State/Country: England
Game Wicket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"BAT AND BALL AMONG THE LADIES. Nine married ladies beat nine single ones at a game of wicket in England recently. The gamesters were all dressed in white - the married party with blue trimmings and the others in pink."

 

Sources

Milwaukee[WI] Sentinel and Gazette, vol. 5, number 116 (September 4, 1849), page 2, column 2. Provided by Craig Waff, email of 8/14/2007.

Comment

Beth Hise [email of 3/3/2008] reports that the wearing of colored ribbons was a much older tradition.

Note: One may ask if something got lost in the relay of this story to Wisconsin. We know of no wicket in England, and neither wicket or cricket used nine-player teams.

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Query

Was cricket, including single-wicket cricket, known in any part of England as "wicket?"

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Submitted by Craig Waff,
Submission Note Email of 8/14/2007



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