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Gisborne’s former world croquet champ gives ‘gateball’ a go

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Former world croquet singles champion Joe Hogan has spread his wings to take in the sport’s equivalent of Twenty20 cricket.

Gateball is a mallet team sport inspired by croquet and invented in Japan in 1947.

Men and women compete together in teams of five in games that last 30 minutes, during which players have 10 seconds to make their shot or lose their turn.

Gateball is to croquet what Twent...


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