At the time of writing, it’s a soggy summer’s day, the World Cup is but an expensive memory, television offers blanket coverage of Wimbledon, and the football season is still six suffocating weeks away. As if to mock my torment, another cricket game drops on the doormat, courtesy of our dependable friends at EA Sports. The Cricket series has been around in various guises for a number of years, but has yet to really trouble the nation in the manner of the ubiquitous FIFA monster. Perhaps surprisingly, the last instalment was Cricket 2000, which by EA Sports’ standards represents a hiatus of Cro-Magnon proportions.
Cricket 19: #No.1 on the list of Best Cricket games for PC. Big Ant Studios, the maker of popular/ best cricket games for pc such as Don Bradman Cricket 17, Ashes Cricket, and Big Bash Cricket, has recently launched a new game in partnership with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). EA Sports Cricket 2007 Free Download is a competitive game for cricket lovers. It lets the cricketer inside you show its skills on the pitch. What you need to do is to create an account in the game and select your attire, then adjust the difficulty level, select the gameplay, choose the overs from 10, 20, and 50, then adjust the fielding, and here you go.
Over the history of the series, the only real constant has been the laconic commentary of funny-faced Antipodean, Richie Benaud, and he is back once again, although David Gower has been replaced by the brasher tones of Jim Maxwell, whoever he is. Suffice to say that it’s a seamless affair, and representative of the general quality of the package. You know the score; it’s an EA Sports title, so expect television style presentation, countless camera angles, meticulously modelled stadia, intricate detail andsuperfluous idle animations from the masters of polish. It is all present and correct, and. as seems to be the goal, it's like a television programme that you control.
Willow The Wisp
This would all be for nowt if the interface was useless, but fortunately this isn’t the case. Cricket has never been the easiest of sports to replicate, but this makes a reasonable fist of it, with bowling involving the positioning of a green disc, and batting requiring you to swing the willow in the immediate vicinity of said circle.
Both disciplines take some mastering, and while it’s effective enough, it’s not always entirely convincing. Even when taking a wicket or hitting a six. there’s always the nagging doubt that you are not completely sure how you did it.
Line & Length
There is some subtlety at work though, and the various bowling styles require markedly different approaches, with the pitch and the weather also affecting play and tactics.It’s not just the mechanics of cricket that aren’t particularly suitable, there’s also the fact that a match can last five days. Playing an entire test match would try the patience of a monk, let alone the average attentiondeficit gamer. The limited overs game is where the immediate value is to be had (the more limited the better) and it can make for a mildly engrossing experience. It’s easy to let a few hours slide by and it’s amazing how involved you can become.While it’s tempting to try and lash every ball out of the ground, a more measured approach is generally required and there is plenty of scope for thought. You’ll get bored of it eventually, but while it lasts, it’s another quality product from EA Sports.
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Allan Border's Cricket
DOS - 1993
Also available on: Commodore 64 - Atari ST
Description of Allan Border's Cricket
Read Full DescriptionProbably the world's best cricket game until Electronic Arts' EA Sports version years later, Allan Border's Cricket is also known as Graham Gooch World Class Cricket, Jonty Rhodes II World Class Cricket, and probably a myriad other names depending on where the game was released.
Aside from different introductory picture featuring different cricket stars (Jonty Rhodes in the South African version of the game, for instance), all versions of the game feature the same great gameplay. Allan Border's Cricket lets you play a variety of games, from one day matches to test cricket. The game has team listing for all nine test-playing nations, as well as those in the Australia Cricket Shield. There also is a feature to edit your teams, incase you want to update the lists and averages. The Australian version (i.e. this one) features all the Sheffield Shield Sides (Australia) with authentic batting and bowling averages, plus Australia, New Zealand, West Indies and England teams, all of which can be customized to your heart's content. You can play against a friend or good computer AI, at Amateur, Professional, or World Class level; you can even watch two computer sides play each other.
On the pitch, the game allows you to control the bowlers, the batsman and the field placings, all of whom are animated very realistically. Intuitive mouse-based controls (similar to computer golf games) allow you to make many kinds of batting strokes including the sweep, hook, cover drive, and square cut.
You can vary the speed and the amount of spin or swing, and even choose handedness of your batsman and bowlers. Choose from the pre-set field placings or create your own; fielders automatically change over to a left-handed batsman, or a new bowler. The list of options goes on, and the game's fantastic graphic detail including player shadows, and occasional showers of rain add icing to the cake. Suffice to say that no cricket fan should be without Allan Border's Cricket, one of the best sport games of all time that put Audiogenic on the map of great game developers. Two thumbs up!
Also, check out Shane Warne Cricket, the last and greatest cricket game from Audiogenic.
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Comments and reviews
abhiram awasthi2020-11-220 point
i love the sound track too
Hemant Shukla2019-08-03-1 point DOS version
Best Cricket game ever played!!! Is this game available on Android or Windows 10
Jay2018-02-07-5 points DOS version
If you keep using any right-hand fast bowler and pitch the ball at a good length just on or outside off stump at full speed to a right-hand batsman, or at the feet at full speed of a left-hand batsman, you will almost always bowl the batting team out for less than 100. If you use any bowler and pitch the ball at a good, fullish, and wide length (but not too wide to be signalled wide by the umpire), you will almost always be bowling maiden after maiden. Also, the Test Matches are only about 60 overs per day which is extremely unrealistic considering they are 90 overs per day in real life. These few serious bugs completely spoil what would have otherwise been arguably the best classic cricket game for PC. What a pity.
KARAN KAPADIA2017-07-092 points Commodore 64 version
PLEASE SUGGEST HOW TO RUN THIS GAME ON WINDOWS 7
EVEN ROADRASH DOESNOT RUN
SHALL I PLAY THIS IN WINDOWS 98 ONLY?
bilawal2016-09-302 points
nice game
Rob2014-06-282 points DOS version
Still the best cricket game ever made
kunai boy2014-05-22-1 point DOS version
cool
raja2014-03-290 point DOS version
like this game
Me2014-02-22-1 point DOS version
Raoooooh!
bunty2013-12-151 point DOS version
one of the fabulous games
cena2013-09-210 point DOS version
good gameeeeeeee
nortz2013-07-220 point DOS version
hi
Kazi2013-06-18-1 point DOS version
Good game
shah2012-12-27-2 points DOS version
it dosnt work on win 7
ab2012-10-230 point DOS version
cool n wicked
eXo2012-08-06-1 point DOS version
This is Brian Lara's Cricket, not Allan Borders. misnamed game.
Cricket Game 2002 Free Download Pc Full
abuzer2012-07-210 point DOS version
umair dog game
nasirmahmood2012-07-050 point DOS version
plz plz ye game instal karo
campy2012-05-070 point DOS version
i luv this game since ma childhood
Rhl2012-04-270 point DOS version
I'm not able to start the game in windows 7 due to screen resolution problem
ketan2012-04-240 point DOS version
No color Kits in this game :(
MUFEED ALI2012-03-190 point DOS version
Full version?, I already have a demo version.
vikram2012-02-270 point DOS version
i want to ownloa this game as i love it
gfjh2012-02-020 point DOS version
very nice....
The O2012-01-260 point DOS version
Really Good game... Good times
nasir mahmood2012-01-190 point DOS version
veey good games
nasir2011-12-310 point DOS version
very good ganes
gokul2011-11-130 point DOS version
this is the best game
mun2011-07-020 point DOS version
excellent game i ply game my child wood ,my school life
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DOS Version
Commodore 64 Version
- Year:1993
- Publisher:Audiogenic Software Ltd.
- Developer:Audiogenic Software Ltd.
Atari ST ROM
- Year:1993
- Publisher:Audiogenic Software Ltd.
- Developer:Audiogenic Software Ltd.
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