Talk:puttocks

RFV discussion: February–June 2017
"A local form of continuous cricket played in Surrey". Mentioned in Andrew Collins' book Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s (p. 47: "One of the games we played, made up I suspect, was a variant on French cricket called 'Puttocks'") and apparently nowhere else. Equinox ◑ 13:49, 9 February 2017 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 04:23, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

2001:8003:38CC:A100:D947:233F:7C7:CE00 13:18, 30 July 2018 (UTC) I don't know why this failed (or anything about Wiktionary for that matter) but I used to play Puttocks at school in North Queensland in the 60's. I would agree with the description that it is a 'form of continuous cricket', as I remember it was played with a tennis ball, and one could bowl whenever one was ready, irrespective of whether the batsman was ready or not. However I cannot imagine why it would be described as a variant of French cricket which is played by bowling at the batsman's legs, and I don't what 'apparently nowhere else' is supposed to mean as I don't where the apparent somewhere is! 2001:8003:38CC:A100:D947:233F:7C7:CE00 13:18, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Yes - we played Puttocks on Stoke Park, Guildford, Surrey, England, with the Crusaders youth club, in the mid-1970s. It was more a cross between Rounders and Cricket, using a Tennis ball, and Cricket stumps but the team went in one after the other to run a round, up and down between the stumps. Other details fail me.