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.[1][2][3][4]

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.[5]