👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird little beast of a word, affectionately nicknamed "brooknet." Now, I’ll be upfront: nobody outside a very specific corner of the British sporting world actually knows what a “brooket set is," and frankly that's part of its charm.
Basically, a brooket set (and therefore the whole thing it spawns – you guessed it! the word itself!) is a ridiculously complicated, almost aggressively niche, and somewhat tragically outdated, combined-wicket format of club cricket. It originated in the 1980s at Brookfield Cricket Club in Somerset, hence the name. Let's unpack that for you, because honestly, if I were explaining it to an outright newcomer, they might just spontaneously combust from bewilderment: Essentially, there are, like, 32 wickets instead of the usual eight. They’re arranged across a sprawling outfield—you need to actually look around to find all of them! There's a whole systems for batters being bowled out in ways which get their wicket and also have the fielder who got that wicket be given a second wicket. You then proceed to this "brooket score." The team with the highest brooket score at the end of 20 overs, wins. The regulations are so convoluted, they basically require a small legal team just to officiate. There are provisions for what happens when the batsman is out in an unorthodox way (bow
