The Pavilion - Blog

In the Minden Cricket Classic Series Set, England in the West Indies, 1934-35, you will find some of the great names of the game from both sides. You will also find one of the shorted Test matches ever played, one that contains bizaar weather, a classic "sticky wicket", and some, er, interesting batting line ups.

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...