Thanks for dropping by and viewing the video, we have highlights of the Cricket season opener, Gloucester v Worcester Rapids! Hope you enjoy the video.
Another great video Dean! A pleasure meeting you at the Leicester Foxes Subbuteo Collector's Fair. Nice to see the teams in action, Hope you continue to enjoy them along with the bats.. Thanks for your support 👍🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏
Late to the Subbuteo Cricket party, but thank you for this wonderful introduction! My wife is going to kill me when she finds out I have a new collecting obsession! Looking forward to the new projects! Take care, sir!
Welcome to the party, my wife is the same however I’m wearing her down and she’s becoming a little more accepting of my hobby, I hope the collecting goes well for you, it’s a nice hobby to have 👍😊
david’s stuff is great isn’t it. I bought a few sets and painted them (old fashion whites) also you can buy the slips and wicker keeper as a set of five, so can mix with existing outfielders. hope he’s ok, his sight was not selling for a while due to personal reasons. five overs great.. i know what you mean 10 overs each does take a while.. 😊
Everything on the pitch looked great and I haven’t got the skill or patience to paint anything like that. It would be an absolute disaster. Happy to leave it to the experts like David. 5 overs was literally a blast, and I enjoyed it. It’ll be interesting to see how my two innings Ashes test match turns out 🫣
Wow, really enjoyed that. I was a tad dismissive of cricket for awhile, but its really growing on me. Would be fun to adapt the bowler to indicate different speeds. For example, a quicky could have a smaller ball. Medium pacer, standard size etc.
Pleased you enjoyed the video, for me the Cricket is great fun, all the elements are very satisfying. From timing a good shot, placing a fielder for a catch and the stumps flying etc, all great when they happen. The speed of bowling is quite a difficult thing to determine, with spin bowling I angle the triangle at the back of the bowler more and try and slow the flick down, but it isn’t easy to get the direction right. So something like you suggested might work.
Great question, yes exactly like normal cricket, over the boundary line or rope, and bloomin hard to achieve. I think in all the games I’ve played I’ve hit about 3 sixes 🏏👍
I'm not into cricket or football at all but I found this video amazing. My favourite sports are actually American Football🏈 and Short Mat bowls(portable,rolling up a bowling mat) and I live in Northern Ireland. PLEASE don't laugh😅. There is a similar American Football 🏈mini version called Electric Football but it's USA based and I have nobody to play it with. I have heard about Subbuteo Cricket before and that there have/are versions of Rugby and even swimming. I might be wrong about swimming. It is a nice sideline (pardon the pun) to the sport you love even, may say so,if a person is not that good at the sport or are slightly older. May I ask,you mentioned going to Subbuteo Cricket markets, is Subbuteo Cricket commercially available like Soccer is in shops? I wish miniature American Football 🏈 was availablee in the UK😢 Ah well I still have Shortmat Bowls.😅😅 Each to their own full size or minature version of their own favourite sports. I for one won't knock it. I think that a variety of interests makes the world go around.
Hi Adrian, glad you liked the video. Subbuteo made various games, Football, Cricket, Rugby, Hockey, Speedway and Fishing! Personally I only played Football and Cricket and recently purchased Rugby. I’ve seen the Electric (American) football on RU-vid and it looks interesting if not a little complicated. Short mat bowls I’ve never played but sounds fun. Being in Northern Ireland there is quite a large active Subbuteo community, might be worth you looking them up. To buy Subbuteo Cricket and the likes, sometimes there are Subbuteo events that are promoted on different Social media groups and platforms. These usually have people selling Subbuteo stuff. So again it might be worth looking those up. And finally there’s eBay. I would say 90% of my stuff is off eBay. This tends to be the best place to pick up some Subbuteo stuff. I hope that helps and it might be worth you checking out some of my other videos on the channel. And not to miss anything you could always subscribe 😉 cheers Dean.
@@SubbuteoFocus Thanks ever so much for your detailed reply and not just replying by saying "Thanks for watching ." Shortmat bowls was invented by someone from Northern Ireland as far as I know and I play for a church club but it can be played in a community hall as well. It's on RU-vid. It's a shorter version of the indoor bowls you see on TV from Potters Resort England. I remember some local teenagers and I were members of a small Subbuteo Soccer League as a teenager in the mid eighties but we didn't stick to the rules eg we moved the figure to the ball. Thanks for all the information. I've always liked interests which are complicated and have some logic to them. I love a good whodunnit
@@adrianbradley8513 I’m always more than happy to do a detailed reply if someone has commented with an interesting back story or question. I’ll have a look out for the Short Mat on RU-vid. And like you, other peoples interests, interest me as well 👍
Hello Iv just built my own subbuteo cricket stadium(paid a fortune for the pitch lol) And am I'm process of collecting enough teams to paint for a world series cricket compo....but need to purchase white cricket balls ....any ideas where I can get these from? Many thanks in advance Gary
@@GarySmith-go5vb Hello Gary, I got my white balls off Amazon, just do a search for 8mm Plastic white balls. They’re not expensive and you can get quite a few for a few quid. Hope that helps, cheers Dean
