A lovely collection of games has appeared on eBay from the same fellow who sold the Indian games a week or so ago that went for the extraordinary price of approx £150-160 each. Expect some rigerous bidding for the above games which are from Ariel and Chad Valley. I plan to email the owner of [...]
A couple of bits of Wicketz info. A few nights ago Mike contacted me via the blog and asked about a pretty unique version of Wicketz (inventor, Alf Compton is pictured to the right). He wrote: “I’m trying to find some information on a version of Wicketz I bought at auction some years ago. It [...]
A few months ago I was asked by the editor of the Pavilion magazine (www.cricket.asn.au) to write an article about cricket board games. The magazine is the official journal of the Australian Cricket Society, so it was with a lot of enthusiasm that I hurled together a rambling piece about my strange little obsession. For [...]
Just a little note to say Merry Christmas to everyone who visits the blog. You might have noticed that I’ve finally moved the blog across to the permanent www.replaycricket.com server. This means the old blog (http://replaycricket.wordpress.com/) won’t be updated anymore, and I will eventually remove it. All the comments, posts and pics have been moved [...]
Just a little note to say Merry Christmas to everyone who visits the blog. You might have noticed that I’ve finally moved the blog across to the permanent www.replaycricket.com server. This means the old blog (http://replaycricket.wordpress.com/) won’t be updated anymore, and I will eventually remove it. All the comments, posts and pics have been moved [...]
A neat little game from New Zealand. Made during the 70s, replete with two spinners, a dice, a board where you can position your players, and a nice deck of cards that resolve play.
Pavilion Cricket is a labour of love which, like so many cricket board games, seems to have sunk without a trace. A real shame for such a promising premise.
A variation of the classic cricket game. Small plastic fielders, a mechanism to allow batting, one to allow bowling, a ball and a field made up of different run areas. It doesn’t get much simpler.
Stumpz is one of the real classics amongst cricket board games. Created by an unknown designer working for the De La Rue Company, the game appears to have first been released in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
A new cricket board game, Lords of Cricket, has just been published in Australia. It takes into account Test, One Day, Twenty20 and, apparently, back yard cricket.
An early Test Match-style game, Jupe Bros Australian Table Cricket was produced in a Sydney factory in 1940s.
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