Owzthat

"Owzthat" is a dice-based cricket simulation from British firm William Lindop Ltd. It is a commercial form of pencil cricket.

Pencil cricket originated in pre-war Britain as a simple dice game simulating cricket. Two dice were crafted by cutting lengths from a six-sided pencil, shaving off the paint to expose the bare wood, and writing the game's numbers and words on the sides.

Lindop's name for its implementation of pencil cricket, Owzthat, is derived from a verbal appeal to the umpire, enquiring whether a batsman is out. The firm first produced the game in 1924 and patented it in 1932. The company was liquidated in 2014.

The product contains the rules on a small slip of paper and two, different, six-sided long dice made of metal with text engraved on each side of each die.

One die is referred to the batting die and has one side apiece marked with 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 'owzthat'. The second die is the bowling die and has the messages 'bowled', 'stumped', 'caught', 'not out', 'no ball', and 'L.B.W.' on one side apiece.

In later years the metal dice were replaced by a white plastic batting die with a green plastic bowling die, and ten red plastic disc counters added to help track fallen wickets.

Owzthat simulates a cricket game with two teams. One person can play both teams, or different people can play for each of the two teams.

Score should be kept by recording the numbers of runs achieved and tracking the number of wickets that have fallen, for example using pencil and paper.