Podex
Podex (also known as Puddocks and Puddex) is a variety of cricket, played in some public schools in the UK and on youth camps. Unlike cricket it uses two, instead of three stumps and a bat, rather like a rounders bat but more the length of cricket bat. A soft rather than a hard ball – a "sorbo" – is used. Kneale (2016) notes a variety in the rules of the game and suggests its origins lie in games played at camps organised by the Scripture Union prior to the First War. The Henry Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk's (1897 ) "Encyclopedia of Sport" includes this entry: "In the summer a modification of cricket called puddex is played at odd times. A hard tennis ball and a thick round stick are used...The pitch must be fourteen yards long, the wicket at least a foot wide. No hit behind the wicket counts. Every batsman retires when he has made twenty-five ; only slow underhand is allowed." And Howard credits a Mr Andrew Lang with inventing the name. Listings of rules. http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/games/mackenzie/outdoor/puddock.htm