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|Title=Single Wicket Cricket Diagram |Description=Single-wicket cricket diagram. From Donald Walker, 1837, Games and Sports, London, Pub. Thomas Hurst p. 218

|Game=Single-Wicket Cricket, |Text=<p><span>"CRICKET. A match of single wicket was yesterday played at the Red House, Harlem,</s

|Headline=When Cricket Still Had Foul Ground? ...he bat. All play was forward of the wicket, as it is now in single wicket games of less that five players a side. With these exceptions, the game was very

|Term=Single-Wicket Cricket |Description=<p>Single-wicket cricket uses teams&nbsp;smaller than the usual 11-player teams. All bowling is to a

<p>The author here is describing Inuit games.</p> |Comment=<p>These rules are similar to those of cricket and single-wicket cricket.&nbsp; When the number of players is limited, is seems likely that it could

...tt. Strutt speculates that Club-ball was the ancient ancestor of many ball games. Its rules of play are not known. Hone book has 2 illustrations.</p> ...says (without citing a source) that club ball was similar to Single wicket cricket.</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball and Cricket,&rdquo; <em>Newark Daily Advertiser,</em> vol. 24, no. 239 (5 Oct 1855), p.

...t players of New York, came off on Friday on the grounds of the Union Star Cricket Club. The Yorkers were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in the <p><span>[B]"After this game had been decided, a match at single wicket cricket came off between two members of the Union Star Club - Foster and Boyd. Fost

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1), &ldquo;Cricket and Base Ball: Chicago,&rdquo; <em>Porter&rsquo;s Spirit of the Times,</em>

...ck, describing the advantages playing base ball had for success at playing cricket, and added his comments. ...his: cricket in a court?'' Richard Hershberger posted an 1860 reference to cricket being played in a court, and requested an explanation. John Thorn suggested

|Query=<p>Is Tom saying that there were no prior safe-haven ball games [cricket, town ball, wicket] out west, or just that the NY game hadn't arrived until

...a town in nearby West Sussex. According to a newspaper report, “a match of cricket is to be played between the married and single gentlemen. Trap, brace ball, ...friendly territory for safe haven ball games. It sports one of the oldest cricket clubs (1771) and has been a hotspot for stool-ball since the mid-19th centu

...cey">Robin Gracey</a>&nbsp;in 1990/91. It is a combination of rounders and cricket. Two teams participate, made up of form members from each class and the tea ...ne-handed bat. Runs are made by running to the end of the pitch, just like cricket. I seem to remember a rule that you can only run if you'd made contact with

...&nbsp; By 1850, of course, the&nbsp;Knickerbockers were playing intramural games elsewhere in New York.</p> ...as seen many references to what amounts to foul territory in single wicket cricket, but all of them seem to simply disallow base-running when a hit ball goes

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Field=Union Star Cricket Club grounds

...t players of New York, came off on Friday on the grounds of the Union Star Cricket Club. The Yorkers were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in the ...d this detail: "After this game had been decided, a match at single wicket cricket came off between two members of the Union Star Club - Foster and Boyd. Fost

...ped into something much more interesting and important. It is preferred to cricket, because the play is more varied and less formal; but nevertheless it has b ...n the first, baseball/rounders is perceived as a family of closely related games, some more and some less developed. &nbsp;In the second, baseball is a sing

...uo; Richardson (1848) notes Tip-Cat&rsquo;s resemblance to [[Single-Wicket Cricket]]. &ldquo;Twenty-one [runs] is usually a game,&rdquo; he adds. The earliest <p>Gomme,<em>&nbsp;Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland, Volume 1</em>. pages 294-

...with the common bat. Anson certainly made a remarkable record in the two games in which he used it. June 23d, Buffington pitcher, in three times at bat h ...wood glued together, with cane as the central material. Like that of the cricket bat, the handle is covered with fine thread wound around it to give the han

...=<p>[A] "That [NY Tribune] article was a discussion, I believe, of the two games, the New York game and the Massachusetts round ball game, with a view to de ...e the genuine game of base ball than single wicket is like a full field of cricket. The Clubs who have formed what they choose to call the 'National Associati