Possible Clues:

• Caught? Run out? Yours truly being dismissed in restrained game
• Credit quote convoluted: it involves going through hoops
• Game played with mallets (or flamingoes according to Lewis Carroll)
• Game, cold, followed by cheese, for going out
• It's played with mallets and wickets ..
• Credit given with dodgy quote -- it's a competitive game
• Game with wooden balls, mallets and hoops
• Game and potato dish left unfinished
• Game with mallets
• Lawn pastime