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ebay sweep: Cricket Subbuteo

Two great institutions of British culture brought together in one ebay item: Subbuteo and cricket!

I have never played Subbutteo cricket; Test Match being my cricket simulation boardgame of choice in my youth.  From looking at the pictures of this beauty it looks like it might be complex, but you know that you want it nonetheless..

There a two days left on this auction, get in now before all the other geeks blow their pocket money on it!

eBay Sweep: England shirt signed by Michael Vaughan

Get yourself over to the site with more tat than Peter Stringfellow's knicker-drawer, and get your hands on this England shirt signed by the man himself.  I mean Michael Vaughan by the way, not Peter Stringfellow.

eBay Sweep: a no doubt hilarious Botham DVD

Beefy has spent the entire winter thrilling us with his incredibly insightful commentary on Sky. One brilliant example being on the first day of the current test when in response to England's selection he said, "what they've done here is moved Bell down the order and put Shah in at 3".  Only 300+ wickets in test cricket could give you that kind of adroit reading of the game.

Anyway, if you want more of the philandering alleged drug addict on your screen then you can pick up "How's Zat! Cricket Capers With Ian Botham" (sic) right now on eBay.

Go on, you'd be a very sensible person to miss it!

eBay Sweep: Lashings jersey

Founded in 1984 as a scratch team, Lashings has since grown into the self-styled "greatest cricket club in the world".  A claim that seemingly cannot be argued with when you look at the roll call of their past players:  Richie Richardson, Muttiah Muralitharan, Aravinda De Silva, Tatenda Taibu, Chris Cairns, Gordon Greenidge, Jimmy Adams, Henry Olonga, Courtney Walsh, Clare Connor, Sachin Tendulkar and Ajit Agarkar.

Get your hands on an original Lashings Cricket Club jersey in this auction currently running on eBay.

eBay Sweep: Malcolm Marshall book

I adored Malcolm Marshall when I was growing up, and I'm not really sure why.  He played for Hampshire whereas I am from Lancashire; he is West Indian (how they could have done with him in the Cricket World Cup) but I am English; yet there was something wonderful about Maco that left me entranced. 

Maybe it was sidewinding run up before he unleashed the ball at his blood-chilling pace, or the fact that he was quite short, or the fact that he could bat as well.  Whatever it was, he was a hero of mine and I was truly, profoundly upset at his tragic death at just 41 years of age.  Anyway, fans of his can pick up a biography on eBay now for the current bargain price of £4.99.  The only drawback is that it is certain to contain loads of poncy ramblings by Mark Nicholas. [lee calvert]

eBay Sweep: Dermot Reeve is awful man

I hate Dermot Reeve, and I always have.  From his stupid run-up that was the preamble to his horrible military medium bowling, to his even more stupid haircut, there is just something awful about him.  The fact that his midget frame could be witnessed jumping for joy at yet another Warwickshire win in the mid 1990s made their dominance even more unpalatable. He then went on to pollute the Channel 4 airwaves with his nasal public-schoolboy tones, before his addiction to charlie jazz-salt finally removed him from the public eye.

Some of you though may like him, and you can pick up his horrible book "Winning Ways" in this auction.  I wonder if one of his "winning ways" is getting out feebly for 15 when you are your side's last batting hope in a major final - as he did in 1992 Cricket World Cup for England. [lee calvert]

eBay Sweep: hideous Ireland watch

Ireland fans are no doubt pretty miserable right now after losing another match.  However, they could cheer themselves up by having a bid on this "superb"(sic) Ireland cricket watch on eBay. 

Other ways to cheer themselves up that might be more rewarding than buying this awful piece of tat: beating their own genitals with a steak tenderiser; having children throw bricks at them; drinking Sunny Delight. [lee calvert]

eBay Sweep: the greatest board game of them all

Do you remember the days when computer games took 40 minutes to load off a screeching cassette machine?  And then the games themselves would look like they were drawn by a semi-remedial chimpanzee?

In those days before Brian Lara Cricket on the Playstation, cricket fans spent hours and hours on Test Match, the king of games.  We would create entire teams, play test series' with our relatives that would stretch over the entire summer holidays; revel in bowling the little ball down the bowler's drainpipe for the batsmen to caress it to the plastic boundary fence. Ah, heady days.

You can now get your hands on one over at eBay in this here auction.  Go-on, get on the nostalgia trip of a lifetime. [lee calvert]

eBay Sweep: a no doubt hilarious Botham DVD

Beefy has spent the entire winter thrilling us with his incredibly insightful commentary on Sky. One brilliant example being on the first day of the current test when in response to England's selection he said, "what they've done here is moved Bell down the order and put Shah in at 3".  Only 300+ wickets in test cricket could give you that kind of adroit reading of the game.

Anyway, if you want more of the philandering alleged drug addict on your screen then you can pick up "How's Zat! Cricket Capers With Ian Botham" (sic) right now on eBay.

Go on, you'd be a very sensible person to miss it!

eBay Sweep: Lashings jersey

Founded in 1984 as a scratch team, Lashings has since grown into the self-styled "greatest cricket club in the world".  A claim that seemingly cannot be argued with when you look at the roll call of their past players:  Richie Richardson, Muttiah Muralitharan, Aravinda De Silva, Tatenda Taibu, Chris Cairns, Gordon Greenidge, Jimmy Adams, Henry Olonga, Courtney Walsh, Clare Connor, Sachin Tendulkar and Ajit Agarkar.

Get your hands on an original Lashings Cricket Club jersey in this auction currently running on eBay.

eBay Sweep: Malcolm Marshall book

I adored Malcolm Marshall when I was growing up, and I'm not really sure why.  He played for Hampshire whereas I am from Lancashire; he is West Indian (how they could have done with him in the Cricket World Cup) but I am English; yet there was something wonderful about Maco that left me entranced. 

Maybe it was sidewinding run up before he unleashed the ball at his blood-chilling pace, or the fact that he was quite short, or the fact that he could bat as well.  Whatever it was, he was a hero of mine and I was truly, profoundly upset at his tragic death at just 41 years of age.  Anyway, fans of his can pick up a biography on eBay now for the current bargain price of £4.99.  The only drawback is that it is certain to contain loads of poncy ramblings by Mark Nicholas. [lee calvert]

eBay Sweep: Dermot Reeve is awful man

I hate Dermot Reeve, and I always have.  From his stupid run-up that was the preamble to his horrible military medium bowling, to his even more stupid haircut, there is just something awful about him.  The fact that his midget frame could be witnessed jumping for joy at yet another Warwickshire win in the mid 1990s made their dominance even more unpalatable. He then went on to pollute the Channel 4 airwaves with his nasal public-schoolboy tones, before his addiction to charlie jazz-salt finally removed him from the public eye.

Some of you though may like him, and you can pick up his horrible book "Winning Ways" in this auction.  I wonder if one of his "winning ways" is getting out feebly for 15 when you are your side's last batting hope in a major final - as he did in 1992 Cricket World Cup for England. [lee calvert]

eBay Sweep: hideous Ireland watch

Ireland fans are no doubt pretty miserable right now after losing another match.  However, they could cheer themselves up by having a bid on this "superb"(sic) Ireland cricket watch on eBay. 

Other ways to cheer themselves up that might be more rewarding than buying this awful piece of tat: beating their own genitals with a steak tenderiser; having children throw bricks at them; drinking Sunny Delight. [lee calvert]

eBay Sweep: the greatest board game of them all

Do you remember the days when computer games took 40 minutes to load off a screeching cassette machine?  And then the games themselves would look like they were drawn by a semi-remedial chimpanzee?

In those days before Brian Lara Cricket on the Playstation, cricket fans spent hours and hours on Test Match, the king of games.  We would create entire teams, play test series' with our relatives that would stretch over the entire summer holidays; revel in bowling the little ball down the bowler's drainpipe for the batsmen to caress it to the plastic boundary fence. Ah, heady days.

You can now get your hands on one over at eBay in this here auction.  Go-on, get on the nostalgia trip of a lifetime. [lee calvert]