Single-Wicket Cricket

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Game	Single-Wicket Cricket
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location
Regions	Britain, US
Eras	1700s, 1800s, Post-1900, Predecessor
Invented	No
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Description	Single-wicket cricket uses teams smaller than the usual 11-player teams. All bowling is to a single wicket. There is, in effect, a foul ground behind the wicket, so unlike full-team cricket, only balls hit forward are deemed to be in play. As late at 1969 there were annual single-wicket championships at Lord’s in London. In the very early years, most cricket is believed to use a single wicket, and each references to cricket in the US usually reported very small numbers of players. Early cricket rules called for single-wicket play when team sizes were five or fewer.
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Comment	The single-wicket game was often played in the U.S. See Chronologies 1845.23 and 1864.46. Edit with form to add a comment
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