Replay Cricket takes a look at some of the best cricket board games from across the years, including Max Walker’s 80s classic, the dice fest that is International Cricket, and the best of the bunch, De La Rue’s Stumpz.
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.
Replay Cricket interviews A.L. Dyke, an original owner of Stumpz which he bought when he was 10 in 1938. Today he still plays and is busy teaching his grandson the joys of this timeless cricket board game.
Posted this on a few sites, so thought I’d post it on my own too ;-) I have been asked by the Australian Cricket Society (www.cricket.asn.au) to write an article for their annual magazine, Pavillion, about cricket board games. It will be a 2 page article with lots of images. I want to know if [...]
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