In these places where schools are fenced in by an impregnable ring of 4x4s every day, the mobile telephone number of a willing maths tutor is the golden ticket.
Javed Ahmadi had already fenced a catch to Clarke at second slip off Josh Hazlewood – and despite a handy fourth-wicket stand between Nawroz Mangal and Samiullah Shenwari, until the Australia captain nabbed the latter's wicket in a rare spell of his left-arm spin.
Also, just because Beckett wrote in a manner that fenced itself fiercely off from conventional style, it doesn't mean he couldn't write in a manner that would be the envy of any writer in the land.
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed an online petition organised by a leftish campaign group, 38 Degrees, opposing what it claims are plans that could see "our national forests" fenced off, logged or turned into holiday villages.
The bulldozers are in action to the north of the city, too, and Mr Ben-Eliezer says he wants Jerusalem fenced off from the east as well.
And more foreign capital will be let into bits of the economy that used to be fenced off, such as retail.
It is a personal affair, as you would expect of a conservative society fenced off for 35 years.
Why bother with Spain, a backward little economy fenced off from the European Community, run by a decrepit, tinpot dictator?
The cost to the victims of their crimes is much higher because stolen goods are fenced at a fraction of their market value.
In the first enclosures, in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, the commons open fields used by many, belonging to all, owned by none were fenced in, and nearly all land became private property.
Besides, the yuan's value is still fixed each morning by China's central bank, and yuan assets are fenced in by capital controls.
