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Dice cricket - with a twist
By Will 4 years ago, mid-March Leave a comment on this post
Read and smile:
Creating entire Test Match Series of dice cricket, between teams of composers, with each composer’s role in the team based on his music - Haydn as a solid opening batsman, Berlioz as a flashy number 5, Debussy as a hypnotizing wrist-spinner. If I remember rightly, the Spanish composers XI went on a long unbeaten run, largely carried by Manuel De Falla’s magestic form at number 6, until they finally met their match in the Scandinavian XI.
From A Flickering Light. I too used to play “dice cricket,” a game rather appropriately called Howzat. They weren’t traditional dice (dices? die? Plural of “dice” please, ladies and gents) - I won’t bore you with the ins and outs, suffice to say it kept me amused for hours. (1 | 2)
5 Responses to “Dice cricket - with a twist”
March 11th, 2005 at 4.34 am
March 16th, 2005 at 11.04 pm
I’ve seen some cricket die on sale at ebay - some are very expensive I think…I became fascinated with Tom on the British sitcom “Good Neighbors” sitting at the kitchen table playing cricket dice. If you have a Palm PDA there’s a freeware version of cricket dice over at Eurocool.com
March 18th, 2005 at 9.49 pm
AKR: I had a temporary loss of linguistic, grammatical and spooling ability! Of course, it’s die…thanks.
Giwiganz (what a name), I think you meant The Good Life, not Good Neighbours. I’ll have to have a look on eBay for some.
September 16th, 2005 at 2.15 pm
Tune in to TalkSport UK 1 - 4pm every weekday.
Hawksbie and Jacobs play Howzhat live on the radio!!!???!!!
May 8th, 2006 at 7.32 pm
Hi
I am 13 years of age and often play dice cricket, my method though is much different to the one published above this is how i play.
1. Get two players who desire to spend about half an hour rolling a dice on some paper.
2. This is the scoring that i use:
Number Rolled
1= Howzat
2= 2 runs
3= 3 runs
4= 4 runs
5= 5 runs
6= 6 runs
3. To make matches more realistic you should give your first three batters 2 chances.
4. Then just keep on with the score.
5. This kept me occupied from Manchester to Glasgow!
