This little corner of the internet is my place to waffle, from time to time, about a not so secret geeky love of mine – Sports Board Games. I play them, obsess over them, forget about them for a while, come back to them, and even publish one of them (Minden Cricket).

My love goes as far back as childhood, and even in my very first job as a cub reporter on a Sunday newspaper in 1980s Melbourne, I got to write about them. Below is a picture of me and the famous cricketer Max Walker with his very own cricket board game. A lovely fellow Max, but his knowledge of sports board games was limited to lending his name to a fairly simple but not that bad cricket game. Sadly Max is no longer with us, but his game lives on in the memory of many a not so young anymore Aussie lad.

Apart from playing games, I am a bit of a collector, with cricket games being a special interest. My collection of cricket board games from the past 100+ years forms the basis of the permanent collection of cricket board games at the MCC Museum at Lord’s, the home of cricket. The exhibition, A Century of Cricket Games, consisted of 70-80% of games from my collection and ran for five years at the MCC Museum from 2015 through to 2020 (stymied in the end by a global pandemic).

That’s all for now. Dice and FACs are calling me….