The awards just keep coming thick and fast for the Stick Sports team, with the oldest - and still the most popular - game in the Stick family picking up a gong for best online cricket simulation game in the CricketGaming.net awards.

Stick Cricket picked up a whopping 46.1% of the vote - that's roughly 38% more than the poor alternative offering from another major cricket website that shall not be named (cough Cricinfo cough).
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One of the most important parts of the 50 over game is death bowling, those last 7 to 8 overs in an innings can be the difference between winning and losing games. Unfortunately with the 50 over game being so batsmen friendly (fielding restrictions, harsher wide calls etc), bowlers hardly get acknowledged for being able to bowl that yorker, or deceive the batsmen with a slower ball. Would help if someone currently playing was actually quite good at it though.

Finally, someone other...

To meet a professional cricketer is one thing, but to actually know him personally is another. The former Hawkesbury, and now Victorian, fast bowler John Hastings is one of my cricketing idols. I play at the club which once was his home club during his junior years in Sydney grade cricket, Hawkesbury.

Around 5 years ago, ‘Hasto’ made his mark in the Sydney Grade Competition, bursting onto the first grade scene. Whether it be with the bat or the ball, his presence was felt by every...

Well it's not quite the serious blogging I promised you, but it's something that hopefully you'll enjoy. I've only written two blogs on cricket, but this one is taking a different view. This blog entry looks at the goings on inside Stick Cricket. Right, this year is the 5th year of the Stick Sports forum, likwise this is the 5th year of live-slog matches, a stick cricket match against two people, with each user posting a screenshot of their scores (See - LSA: Live-Slog Agency)

So...

Well it's not quite the serious blogging I promised you, but it's something that hopefully you'll enjoy. I've only written two blogs on cricket, but this one is taking a different view. This blog entry looks at the goings on inside Stick Cricket. Right, this year is the 5th year of the Stick Sports forum, likwise this is the 5th year of live-slog matches, a stick cricket match against two people, with each user posting a screenshot of their scores (See - LSA: Live-Slog Agency)

So...