Loft(y) discovery
I recently received an email from Rich about a discovery he made while cleaning out his loft.
“Hi, While clearing out my loft I have come across some table cricket figures. I have a batsman that is connected to a plastic arm, there’s is a length of string that attaches to a metal/lead bat. The batsman’s body is attached to the plastic arm but his head and shoulders rotate as you pull on the string. The bowler is also attached to a large plastic stand. in his right hand he is holding what looks like half a ball, his arms rotate. There is a length of plastic like a gutter that the bowler must push the ball down. The rest of the players I have are fielders all in different standing positions. The fielders stands are plastic and are a half moon shape. The fielders have red hats( the batsman is blue), the bowler has no hat. I have 4 figures that look like slips, 5 upright outfield players but no wicketkeeper. There is also some boundary pieces that would have held the card boundary line. There is Velcro on the base of the boundary plastic pieces.
I have looked for ages on the internet and not found any similar. There are no markings on the pieces. I hope you can help me with some information..”
After Rich sent some pics which looked like this …
… I did a short bit of detective work and identified them as figures from a 1960s version of Test Match (thanks Board Game Geek!).



Hey nice find! I used to LOVE this game as a kid – my brother had a newer version of Test Match bought in the 80s, and my dad used to umpire the games! :)