Publisher: Pavilion Games.

Year: 1990.

Mechanism: Dice rolling, tables and very, very detailed lists of players of all sorts from Test teams to county and state teams.

Description: One of my favourite cricket games from the past 20 years. Someone has obviously spent a huge amount of time on this, and the mechanism is really good. It falls short in terms of a logical approach to weather, pitch, extras and a few other areas, but with a few tweaks could be a top class game. It describes 4 different types of bowlers and about 15 or so batsmen. With a bit of work this could be a classic…