Wicked Wicket: new game from Boadicea's Backyard
Jul 20, 2010
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Very exciting news just in is about a new cricket game called Wicked Wickets from a UK-based company called Boadicea’s Backyard.
He’s Out: The New Test Match Game
Mar 21, 2010
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He’s Out! from 1928 is one of the few early cricket games endorsed by a famous player. In this case it’s England Captain W.R. Hammond. Or Wally, to his mates.
Victorian table basher
Mar 20, 2010
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An unusual, rare and oddly spelt Victorian table top game, “Crickette” has been found by Replay Cricket on eBay. Looks like fun.
Stumpz from Thos. de la Rue & Co. Ltd.
Mar 14, 2010
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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.
Eagle No 5. Fireside Cricket
Feb 21, 2010
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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 [...]
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