The Pavilion - Blog

For those interested in following Minden Cricket on social media I thought it might be useful to list where we are: Twitter - Minden Cricket's main place for updates, so please follow Facebook - more photos and updates on the latest Minden Cricket stuff. Delphi - for hard core stats based fans of the game we still maintain a presence on Delphi. We'll keep Twitter (X) the most up to date place for the latest including the occasional sale and promo info. See you there!

I've long been a fan of cricket board games, and ran a site which I'm in the process of rebuilding called replaycricket.com. Over the years I've collected and played plenty of games, including Wicketz, one of the better efforts. Wicketz was created by a fellow called Alf Compton who self published about 200 of them back in the 1980s. Although clearly "inspired by" the 1930s classic Stumpz (Alf wasn't the first or the last to find inspiration in this near perfect game) Wicketz has a charm of its own. The game was helped by its physicality, which included playing figures...

If you're in London or visiting soon, the Minden Cricket team strongly suggests you get yourself down to Lords, the home of cricket, and visit the MCC Museum. 2017 sees the excellent "A Century of Cricket Games" exhibition enter its 2nd year. Cricket board game tragic, Darren Edwards (also the publisher of that fine cricket board game, Minden Playing Card Cricket) has provided his collection of cricket board games for long term loan to the MCC Museum and this forms that basis of the exhibition (making up 70% of all games on display). On your visit you will discover a wealth of...