Cricket and rugby versions were also produced, but were much less popular. The most common score in Subbuteo cricket was six byes, due to the vagaries of the bowling contraption's line and length.

Subbuteo cricket is a simple game. The bat is attached to a plastic handle that sticks out at right angles. The grip of this handle is manipulated between the thumb and forefinger.

For non-UK readers, or those too young to remember, Subbuteo was a hugely popular pastime constituting a set of table-top games such as football (soccer), cricket, rugby and hockey.

Everyone's heard of Subbuteo, but what about Stumpz? This die cast cricket game was around 10 years before the football classic, and is one of a multitude of vintage games now on display at the ...

The problem, at least with Subbuteo Cricket, is that it was almost impossible to play. However tenderly you flicked the slingshot bowler over, he could never land ball on pitch, ...

By the time Mark was born in 1956 it was well established and he grew up surrounded by Subbuteo. "I more or less teethed on Subbuteo, there were always figures lying around, I used to stick them in my ...

Tunbridge Wells is the “spiritual home” of Subbuteo which was invented there in 1946 before being copied around the world. The game of skill and strategy fell out of fashion with the advent of ...

With a quivering finger, England Subbuteo veteran Rudi Peterschinigg conceded the free-kick that sent his country’s World Cup quarter-final into extra-time before smashing his plastic goalkeeper on ...