[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Pub sign cricket?

Pub sign cricket is to do with the (theoretical) number of legs contained within a pub name, i.e. the Jolly Collier would have two legs, the George & Dragon would have a total of six legs between the knight and the monster, so you'd score two runs passing the first pub and six runs passing the second. Getting out was something to do with passing the King's Head or the King's Arms, I think?

[derbybaggie]

Pub sign cricket?

Pub sign cricket is to do with the (theoretical) number of legs contained within a pub name, i.e. the Jolly Collier would have two legs, the George & Dragon would have a total of six legs between the knight and the monster, so you'd score two runs passing the first pub and six runs passing the second.  Getting out was something to do with passing the King's Head or the King's Arms, I think?

We played it that you were out if the pub sign had no legs e.g. The Royal Oak

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Yeah, I think on our school trips it used to be no legs = dot ball, three dot balls in a row = wicket, but a pub with "head" or "arms" in the name was an instant wicket. Also, a pub named after a non-specific plural number of men or animals was 36 runs, because that's the maximum you can score off an over. (For instance, there's a place in Dudley called Dubliners which could potentially score you two million runs if you presume that it refers to the entire population of the city, but even Viv Richards would probably have called it a day after the first five thousand.)