Wicket keeper

A wicket-keeper or wicket keeper was a fielder in cricket who stood behind the wicket in the hopes of catching any balls that nicked the edge of the cricket bat. (PROSE: Goth Opera)

People known to have kept wicket include Bernice Summerfield and Alton, (PROSE: Happy Endings, Human Nature) — as well as a few people whose names weren't known (TV: Black Orchid, PROSE: Deadly Reunion], COMIC: The Tides of Time)

Behind the scenes

 * Though unremarked in DWU fiction, a wicket keeper was perhaps the closest thing in cricket to the in baseball.
 * The term is typically spelt with a hyphen in DWU fiction, but sometimes goes without. Oddly, Paul Cornell's work was edited in both ways: Goth Opera doesn't use the hyphen, but Human Nature does.