Table top game, 'Cricket at Lord's', produced by Chad Valley, Harborne, 1940s.

Cricket-themed tabletop game consisting of several parts.

Paper bag containing 41 rectangular cards, printed on one side in black with a white number and a small hole for hanging on the scoreboard.

Wooden score board. Printed wooden rectangle, white with black text on one side. Nails on other side to hold numbers behind windows in the rectangle. Two plain wooden stands.

Bowling figure. Carved wooden figure on green painted base, with printed paper decoration. Pivoting arm with hook and metal loop attached.

Nine cricket fielder figures. Cardboard cut outs printed with an image of a cricketing fielder, set in green painted wooden bases.

Small wooden pencil, with red varnish.

Miniature cricket bat, carved wood with painted black handle.

Two miniature cricket balls, red painted wood.

Two sets of miniature cricket stumps, three wooden dowels in a green painted wooden base.

Paper printed in red with scoring table for cricket game. 12 sheets stapled at one end with rusting staple.

Small blue paper covered cardboard box. Packaging consisting of a blue paper covered cardboard box base,and a lid covered with printed paper featuring colour illustration of two cricketers.

With the game are numerous assorted home made additions to the game, including a semi-circular metal ramp, one piece of wooden dowelling, two wooden dowels nailed together, a piece of flat wood, a piece of wood with three holes in, a burnt match, some notes on a piece of paper and a newspaper cutting with the configuration of people in a cricket match.

Given by Mrs Moira Beddows

This cricket game was a table top action game designed in the late 1940s by the Chad Valley company. It reproduced a Lord's cricket match in miniature in one's own home, in an inventive way that led to Chad Valley applying for patent for the bowler figure. One player would take the bowler, insert a wooden ball into the metal loop at the end of the bowler's hand, and pull back and let go. Tension from an elastic band fixed between the bowler's pivoted arm and his body would make the arm fly forward and launch the cricket ball: the point was to aim at the wickets, and not hit any of the fielding players from the other team, as arranged by the other player. The game also came with a miniature score board, just like the one then seen at Lord's cricket ground.

B.87:1 to 13-2010