A manual from an early copy of Balyna Discbat Cricket reveals some previously unknown secrets, especially the marketing ploy of the inventors and a certain Mr Compton. It also provides a link to an earlier photograph found by the replaycricket.com team

Got an email from Andrew Hopcroft this week about a game he played as a child from an old Eagle Annual (no 5.) that he got from his Dad. The game feels like Book Cricket, an age old game played by school kids everywhere (a relative, I suspect, of Chapel Cricket, which a colleagues father [...]