Tarax Cricket Game
After a lot of time searching, thanks to Sports Board Gamer reader, Cameron Waters, I have at last seen a full version of the Tarax Cricket Game. This is the sister game to the much better known Aussie Rules football […]
Cricket by the Fireside
Here’s a classic game that many of this blog’s older readers will know well – Cricket by the Fireside. Known to some as “Book Cricket”, it’s a simple system that was written up in the Eagle Annual No. 5. It […]
Stumpz – Brochure
It is no surprise to me that I have an obsessive tendancy, but every now there is a perfect example that just makes me say to myself “you crazy indulgent b£$%rd!” Recently I bought probably my fifth or sixth copy […]
Godfrey Evan’s Cricket Game
A simple dice roller cricket game featuring the great English wicket keeper, Godfrey Evans. The game had dice that the enthusiastic player put together themselves, and the backing card had both the rules (back) and a “specimen” score card (front). […]
A Century of Cricket Games – Exhibition
In 2016 the MCC Museum at Lord’s, the home of cricket, launched the exhibition “A Century of Cricket Games”. A large majority of the cricket board games on display came from my personal collection, which I have now donated permanently […]
He’s Out – The New “Test Match” Game
He’s Out is a classic, hard to find, vintage cricket board game from Glevum, makers of all sorts of very British board games in the 1920s and 30s. It’s amongst the finest games in my collection of cricket board games […]
Stumpz – The Pinnacle of Cricket Games
The following is an excerpt of a speech I gave at Lord’s, the home of cricket, on a special MCC Members only day which explored the history of board games. Among the speakers was myself as an avid collector of […]
The Best Cricket Board Games
The Replay Cricket section of the Sports Board Gamer is all about cricket board games. That’s right…good old fashioned dice rolling, card flipping, pencil pushing, tactile wonders. While you can trawl through replaycricket.com to your heart’s content and discover your own favourites, […]
The legendary Wicketz Advanced Rules
I’ve long been a fan of cricket board games, and ran a site called replaycricket.com which is now a part of the Sports Board Gamer. Over the years I’ve collected and played plenty of games, including Wicketz, one of the […]
Teaching Cricket in Sweden
A few months ago I was in Stockholm and bumped into someone I used to work with who is now living in China. He said that he’d been watching the recent Twenty20 World Cup and it had whetted his appetite […]