Stonyhurst Cricket

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Game	Stonyhurst Cricket
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	Lancashire, England
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Tags	1700s, 1800s, Britain, post-1900
Description	There was a distinct form of cricket at the Roman Catholic College of Stonyhurst. The game played there used a single-wicket, which took the shape of a 17-inch milestone, used a hand-crafted misshapen ball with an exaggerated seams, encouraged bowling with two or more bounces before reaching the batsman, "baselines" set at 30 yards instead if 22-yards, and 3 or 4 players per side. There was an out-of-bounds line. The college was located outside England from about 1600 to 1794, and tre conjecture is that this game evolved separately from the dominant 11-man game during that period.
Sources	Rev. John Gerard, Stonyhurst College (Belfast, Marcus Ward and Co., 1894), pages 179-182.
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