It’s Opening Day – 1978
The season is about to begin, although we have to wait until day four before the Yankees start their season opening series against the Texas Rangers. After an hour or so of seperating and bagging all of the teams from […]
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 […]
Statis Pro Baseball 1979 – Box Contents
A wonderful, almost mint version of the 1979 version of Statis Pro has arrived, containing a huge host of players from the 1978 season. Before I write about it here are some of the components and the box. Above you […]
Tarax Footy Game – Polly Farmer
While there are many baseball and NFL games, and quite a few cricket related games, the field of Australian Rules football games is a veritable haven for metaphorical tumbleeds. Games on the subject come and go, and usually are forgotten […]
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, […]
Zen and the art of Statis Pro
Hey all – just started a new project – a replay of the entire 1992 season using the original Statis Pro game and cards (the last official set, I believe). Given, like so many other fellow sports board gamers, I […]
The opportunities for replay nirvana are many
We reached a milestone recently with the publication of the latest set of Career Cards, which means the majority of crickets from the start of Test cricket in the 1870s through to the end of 2020 now have their own […]
The long and winding roadmap…
As fans of the Minden Cricket board game game will have seen over the past few months, the 10th anniversary of the 5th Edition of the perennially popular statistical cricket board game has coincided with a flurry of product development. […]