All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means; electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Croquet Association.
(b) The front of a hoop as it is approached by a ball about to run it in order is known as the playing side and the back as the non-playing side. The whole of the ball does not have to pass through the whole of the hoop to score a hoop point because
(d) If a ball from which the striker is taking croquet lies within the jaws of the hoop next in order for the striker's ball, the striker's ball may run that hoop in the croquet stroke provided that it has not begun to run the hoop (see (b)(1) above) when placed in the actual position from which the striker will take croquet.
(e) if the striker's ball causes another ball
to score a hoop point, that other ball is said to be peeled through the
hoop.
| The Croquet Association | Copies of the Laws | Oxford Croquet Site |