CRICKET GAMES
World CricketAfter the short introduction showing the play of the bowler, the batsman and the fielder, you can finally jump into the excitement of being in a world cricket game. World Cricket will let you play as either the bowler or the batsman and thus will have to learn two different control styles. If you are currently playing as the batsman, then you will be using one or a combination of arrow keys to perform different shots like a straight drive, a cut, a pull and many others. If you are playing as the bowler, then you only have to worry about positioning your bowling marker and your character will automatically throw the ball at maximum power. Select your team from a wide selection then select how many overs will there be to win a match. After choosing heads or tails for the coin toss, you will then finally be in for the real thing. The game will be seen in a third person perspective and the camera is zoomed in on the batsman and the bowler so you can see the ball coming or you can determine how to throw the ball. Choose if the ball shall get a fast release or a slow one.
Tabletop CricketIn the flash cricket game Tabletop Cricket you can choose from one of two teams which is England and Australia, and in the game you will have two innings; one where you the batsman and one where you control the bowler. After choosing your team, you will choose one side of a coin for a toss to determine which team will go first. When bowling, you need to position your fielders, and each innings has 4 overs of 6 balls each. Click and drag the bowler and batsman to set up their speed and direction, and release the mouse to activate them. Each team has 11 players, and each player stays in bat until they are either bowled or caught out. The innings will end when either the 10th batsman is out or all of the overs have been completed. There are different zones in the pitch and you can score up to 6 points depending on where the ball lands and of course, how far. If you are the bowler, position your fielders where you think the ball will go if the batsman from the other team hits the ball, which requires a bit of intuition. If you bowl with little strength, then the batsman can only hit the ball with little strength too.
Top Spinner BlitzHave a jolly good time as a batsman in Top Spinner Blitz! More like a mini-game than a real cricket game, you will be playing as a ragdoll batsman faced against a machine in an unknown kung fu like stance with a bat, hitting all the balls thrown at you and aiming for the wall with score indicators. Did you get that? Well its simple actually: you have to control the bat using the mouse. Balls will be thrown at you from the right of the screen while your player is on the left side with a bat in his hand. Time your swings and move your mouse pointer to the right when a ball is incoming to hit it. Hit upwards to make the ball hit the higher part of the wall which is worth 6 points. When you hit the wall multiple times in a row, then you get a score multiplier which increases your points by a high amount, and chaining 3 times can activate the multiball option, where a flurry of balls will be released at you and you can just swing like a madman, hoping that you hit the balls strong enough for them to touch the walls.
Super SixersIn Super Sixers, the game is already down to the wire and quick runs are the need of the hour. Slam your way through the last 4 overs and up the run rate to save the game! This cricket game takes place inside an audience-filled stadium, and you are playing as a batsman to strike the ball and save your team from a loss. In a third person view, you will be behind your batsman, while he is focusing on the ball. The bowler will be at the far side of the screen and will throw the ball at your character at full speed, and you should use careful timing and intuition to successfully hit the ball to score runs. Your batsmans body is slightly see-through so you know where the ball will be going, which is the white box drawn in the field. When you have adjusted your batsman with the left and right arrow key, you can then press the spacebar to have the ball thrown, and when the ball is already coming at you, press spacebar again to strike! You should wait for the absolute best moment before swinging your bat though, because it could affect the distance and direction that the ball will take.
Flash Cricket 2Fans of the Cricket sports can certainly appreciate this flash game. Flash Cricket 2 will let you name your character and pick a team for the high scores which is good for the competitive players out there. Your stats will be recorded like how many balls you have hit, how many 4 or 6 runs have you made, and of course your best hit. You have 11 tasks to do in total, with each task equal to a certain points value for your team. Completing a task unlocks the next, and your game is beat when you finally complete the last task. The graphics are similar to a wii game which is good since this game is only a flash version. You also hear applause when you successfully complete your task. Audio and visuals aside, during the actual cricket game, you will be playing in a third person view or specifically, behind your controlled character. You move him with the arrow key so he can hit the ball with one of three possible pitch variations. He can either do a pull, a straight drove or a cut with the arrow keys, while double tapping any of these keys will make him loft the ball.
Slog CricketPursue the bat-and-ball sport online with Slog Cricket. In this flash cricket game, you will function as a batsman in charge of hitting the ball. You will be controlling a bat with the arrow keys to press. Hit the ball to score runs, lofting can make you hit a 6. In each over, you will only be facing 6 balls, and you will have to score as much with these. When your stumps are hit by the ball and stumbles down, you lose a wicket. You can also lose a wicket when a fielder catches a ball that you have just hit. Lose ten wickets and the game is over. You will be selecting a team, and then deciding which scenario to play, and by scenario I mean requirements for you to complete a level. The harder are locked away until you complete the easier ones, and even the easy ones need a bit of trial and error to complete. The players, including you, are positioned horizontally with the other players surrounding you. Simply swinging brings your bat to a counter-clockwise arc, and while this is effective, it can only give you a few runs. Lofting the ball at the right time however, gives you a possible 6 runs!
The Dominator CupTear down the ranks and beat the best to win the ultimate Cricket Championship! The Dominator Cup is a flash cricket game that is simulated from real-life cricket games. Hit the space bar to start bowling and use the arrow keys to take your shot into the corresponding direction. Win the match for more opponents to get unlocked and to beat! Teams that you can play against are colored green while the locked ones are in red. After choosing your enemy, you start the game as the batsman. You will be playing in a third person view, from where you can see the one who will bowl and the other players. The controls are as simple as pressing the arrow key to pitch into that corresponding direction, although you have to be mindful of where the ball will be coming from and then decide which way to bat to, and this decision-making moment is only available for a few seconds before the ball passes through you and you fail to pitch. If you successfully hit the ball and none of the enemy teams players caught it, then you score points and the points increase the farther the ball got so wait for the best moment to strike!
Defend the AshesHere is an online flash cricket game with a twist so big it doesnt look anywhere near a real cricket game. In Defend the ashes, aussies will be running towards the ashes and it is your job as a hand to pick them up and throw them away so the jar remains safe. Besides the regular picking-up and tossing off the screen, you can also pick them up, let go of them and hit them away for extra points! Picking them up and tossing them away like bugs might take bit too much time and they wont stop coming in so if ever the aussies are swarming in too many at a time and is defying your hand which is the first line of defence, you can use the panic weapons to push them back or eliminate many at once. You can get even more weapons by rolling over the crates. They will be running in from left and right and will try to get into the cup and when you are distracted on one side, the aussies could already be invading your cup from the other. There are lots of weapons for you to use against them like a car that will roll downhill, knocking away anyone it passes through, a hat that blocks the way, thunderstorms that shock the enemies and more!
Cricket ChallengeCricket challenge is a flash game that shall test your knowledge and skill in the cricket game! the game consists of 15 overs of 6 balls per over and play continues until all of the overs have been completed or you have lost 10 wickets. The ball will be coming at you at varying speeds, lengths and position so a bit of intuition, hand-eye coordination and quick response time is needed to win. There will be different kinds of swings that you can use with the arrow keys and shift keys, and choosing the correct one is crucial because each swing delivers a different result when used. There will be an indicator at the bottom of the screen which is some sort of hint system for you to know the correct kind of swing to use. If you choose to combine the arrow keys with the shift key, the swing will have more power to it, but accuracy will be decreased in return. You can choose to have batting practice first before you start the actual game to familiarize with the controls since there are many buttons to press. You may sometimes get confused, but practice makes perfect so its not a bad idea to play batting practice first.
Catches Win MatchesAs the title implies, having good hands to catch the ball with usually wins a cricket game. In Catches Win Matches, your goal is to catch the ball which will be flying in with speed, and you will be controlling a glove that you will move around to successfully catch the ball. You can select how many overs will you be dealing with and when you have decided, its time to get your game on. The view will be in a first person perspective, and the batsman will be standing in front of you in a short distance. This short distance is bad for you because combining that with the speed of the ball, it is quite difficult to catch one. The batsman wont be aiming at the same area twice and when you moved your gloves to one side in anticipation of the next ball, the batsman could then aim for the far side from where your hands are, making you again, miss the catch. If you place the gloves at the center of the screen so you can quickly get to either side, you risk not seeing where the ball is going and it would soon be too late for you react and once again miss the catch.
Body Line CricketIts time to bruise some batsmen up with Bodyline Cricket! In this flash cricket game, your goal is to take down the batsmen with hitting them with a ball as hard as possible. The batsmen will be standing inside a rectangular frame with a horizontal and vertical line moving along their bodies. Press the space bar at the right time to create the coordinates for the ball to take. Your character will then throw a ball into the point that you created to hurt the batsman as much as possible. Surely it is one big ouch moment for him because every hitting ball causes him to bleed, and you should take them all out in a stretcher to finish the game. Hitting the batsman thrice in a row will earn you a wicket and having a wicket basically means more damage. Hitting three wickets in a row further increases your potency, and gives you max power! With max power on, you can take a batsman in one swing, sending them to the hospital with a hit to anywhere in their bodies. You can always aim for the head which deals more damage than anywhere else but if you aimed incorrectly, the batsman could just shrug your attack by hitting it with the bat.
Ashes Bash CricketThe cricket game Ashes Bash Cricket is one where you have to time the swing of your bat to hit the ball in the direction you want. You can select from either England or Australia as your team, and when you have decided, you can choose a scenario from four available choices. There are different goals for each scenario and all of them are a challenge to play. Inside a large gym with hundreds of audiences dotting the seats, you play as the batsman in the middle waiting for the ball to be thrown at you. You are controlling the stick with the arrow keys, and you will be surrounded by paper-Mache-like players. Timing is the key to success in this simplified online cricket game, as it affects the trajectory of the ball. You can only swing counter-clockwise and you should note the distance of the ball before swinging too because you might swing prematurely or swing too late. Double tapping the down arrow key lets you loft the ball away. If you hit the ball and it is retrieved by the other players, it is one run. Getting the ball out of the white outline near the walls of the stadium is considered two runs, and the game is over when you get a certain number of runs.
Super FielderEye on the ball, feet on the field, aiming to win! Now that is a good tagline from the cricket game Super Fielder. You can play in two different modes in this game which is survival mode where you have three lives, unlimited time, and you have to score as much as possible. In challenge mode, you have to reach the target and get through all the levels in a limited time. The objective is simple, to bowl and catch the ball that the machine throws. You use the mouse to move the hand that will catch the ball, and you should make sure to try and catch it through the middle of your two hands. After successfully catching a ball, you should then throw it into the wickets, and this is timing based where in a blue bar with a yellow spot in the middle will have a red marker line that will be moving back and forth. You should left-click when that red marker is within the yellow spot to knock the wickets down, and clicking outside of it will only make a throw that will surely miss. The machine throws the ball at a high speed so you have to react quickly to catch the ball. Super Fielder is a great game if you want to see how good you are against the batting team. Remember to win at cricket games sometimes you need not only to be a good batsman. Dwayne Bravo - West Indies, Kevin Pietersen - England, Suresh Raina - India and Devon Smith - West Indies all have one thing in common and that is they are all world class cricket fielders. It is very important in the modern game of cricket to have such players. South African Captain Hansie Cronje once said that Jonty Rhodes was picked for the South African Cricket team purely because of his great fielding skill and if he did manage to score runs while batting then that would be a bonus!
Super Sixers 2Super Sixers 2: Time to get set and make your team win! Another cricket game is to be enjoyed here and before you tackle down the tournament, you can first play a practice match! In this timing based game with a little requirement for correct positioning, you will be playing as the batsman and you see the game from a third person perspective, behind your player. You position him in the field by using the arrow keys and you should consider putting him near the dark box in the ground, which is where the ball is most likely to get thrown too. Once you have chosen the best position, press spacebar to lock him in place and the enemy player will then proceed to throw the ball. Here enters the timing part of the game, you should wait for the ball to come near to you first, then strike away! It is recommended to let the ball bounce off the ground first before swinging, and of course striking at just the right moment can give you a super six, which will make your team win! You only have a limited amount of balls so with them, you should really aim for good swings. This cricket game is pure batsman power and you will need it to get your team to the top in the ranking. Now go on and see if you can hit that red leather ball for a six. Technique is key for hitting a six in the game of cricket. Hitting a six in cricket is when the batsman stikes the ball with his bat and the ball does not touch the ground until it has gone past the boundry rope. If it does then only a four will be scored. Scoring a six will always get the crowd excited and it gives the crowd a chance to be in the action by trying to catch the ball. Some formats of the game also pay a bonus if you hit a six.
Wicket Keeping VoltPractice as a fielder in the cricket game. Wicket Keeping Volt! Now that the stadium is empty, you can practice with your team and your goal as the fielder is to catch the balls that will be hit by the batsman. The game is set to a first person perspective and you will not see who you will be controlling, you can only see the gloves. You move the mouse to move the gloves and catch the ball which will be flying in all directions after being successfully hit by the batsman in front of you. The bowler will be standing farther away from you but you dont really have to mind him, you have to anticipate where the ball will fly after meeting the bat, and catch it with your gloves. Before the shot is made, you have to keep the gloves somewhere where it wont block the view first then you have to be quick with your response once the ball has been hit and use your gloves to catch the ball. Sometimes the ball might fly off the screen and still count as a miss if you think you cant catch it, but actually you can by pushing far enough. Mark Boucher, Kumar Sangakkara, Kamran Akmal and Mahendra Dhoni have all been put forward as the best wicket keeper but who has heard of Alan Knott. Knott was a class act with the gloves. Or what about Leslie Ames who managed to score 100 first-class centuries with the bat and with the gloves took 704 catches and 417 stumpings.
Turbo CricketWin the game by scoring runs in Turbo Cricket! In this cricket game you will be playing as the batsman for your team from a third person view and from the sides so you can see your character wielding his bat and the balls coming in from the right side of the screen. You are on a ready stance and your goal is to score a certain number of runs with a limited number of balls, and you should time your swings to make sure that you not only hit the ball, but also make it fly towards the point indicators. There are white lines from where the balls are coming from and they are numbered, and this indicates how many runs you are going to score when you get the ball to fly into that direction. You can score either two, four or six points, and aiming for the six points could be a bit tricky because there is a small hole between the four and six lines where the ball might go through scoring you no points at all. A ball is wasted when you dont hit it with your bat and it takes down the stumps that are standing by your feet. Set the shot to the right angle and with good timing, you can score runs before you lose all your balls.
Gully CricketZooming into the horizon and stopping in front of four smug looking cricketers. Thats how the intro went for Gully Cricket, and online flash cricket game. You will be playing as the batsman, and your location is a back street of a rural area. Kids can be pretty resourceful when they want to play a game, and you and your friends get together to have a nice good game of friendly cricket. Form a third person view, you will be controlling the position of your character with the mouse button while left clicking will make him swing the bat. When he hit the ball, the number runs is determined by where you made the ball go to. Having the ball fly to the sides is worth 2, behind the other kids are worth four, and somewhere into those buildings are worth 6 runs. When you will are finally doing good and think that you will somehow going to get popular with all your playmates, the opposite happens and you and every other player gets into a brawl where you have to keep tapping the spacebar to win. When you finally complete the bat image in the bottom right corner during a fight, you successfully beat everyone else, and the game continues as if nothing happened.
Cricket World Cup 2011Cricket World Cup is one complex flash cricket game with lots of buttons to press and controls to memorize to win! In the game, you start bowling by pressing the space bar. The bowling point on the pitch can be adjusted with the arrow keys. After locking, the bowling speed is increased automatically while you have to press the space bar to lock the speed. A line is drawn on the speed indicator, and when the increase passes the line, it is counted as a no ball. However, the closer it is to the line, the harder to throw the ball and the harder for the batsman to hit it. To run in between the wickets, you can press the down arrow for a single run and up arrow for a second run. You can choose from 14 different teams to compete in the world cup. After choosing your team, you can select how many overs are needed to win, then from your team, you will select one character to play and finally, choose heads or tails for a coin toss to determine who will bat first. A sort of minimap is added to the top right of the screen to know the position of all the players of the game. The cricket world cup has been played since 1975 with the first championship being played in England. Australia has won it the most with 4 titles. The great Sachin Tendulkar has the most runs with 2,278. And Glenn McGrath has taken the most wickets in the championship with 71 wickets. Amazingly the womens cricket world cup predates the mens and started in 1973.
Ashes 2 Ashes CricketWho knew that zombie and cricket would ever be found in a sentence? Well in Ashes 2 Ashes Zombie Cricket, you will be playing this grand spectator sport with animated corpses! You dont play this like any cricket game, a swarm of zombies is slowly walking towards you and you should hit the ball towards them to kill them. You only have to click the mouse to swing, but you must wait for the most opportune moment before you click away because the time in which you swing could affect the strength and direction that the ball flies, and this is very important because these zombies dont die with one ball and it usually takes them a few shots before they are eliminated. You can, however use only one ball to kill a zombie if you hit it at the right spot, and everybody knows where a zombies weak spot is. Thats right! Aim for those heads! Decapitation is a one shot sure-kill. Another cricketer will be running back on forth to supply the balls for you to hit, and it is recommended for you to wait for the ball to bounce first before you hit it. Dont let a zombie get to you or your brain will be their breakfast.
Stick CricketInternational one day teams are battling it out in Stick Cricket! In this stick people game you will be playing as the English cricket team and you should chase your opponents score in limited overs game. In game, you will be playing from a third person perspective, behind your controlled character. After bowling, you will have to choose from three different types of swings to use. W, A or D or the left, right and up arrow keys each have a kind of swing mapped to them. You should choose depending on where the ball goes. For example, When the ball goes to the right, tap the right arrow key to perform a cut that effectively hits the ball to a far distance, and if the ball is travelling straight, then perform a straight drive by tapping the up arrow key. Ducking can also be done if you refuse to swing. Be careful with swinging because you might miss or hit it towards an opponent and get caught, only to be thrown a boo from the crowd. 6s however will send the fans cheering. When a player is out, the next in line will be the batsman and will continue until the last player of your team gets out or you defeat your enemy.
Top Spinner CricketBe the ultimate batsman thru practice with Top Spinner Cricket. In this cricket mini-game, you will be a batsman encased within marked walls while balls come at you from the right side of the screen. Your body will be like that of a ragdoll, but you wont be moving anyway and you will just stay in place. Your only control is the mouse for moving the bat, and you dont even have to click. You only swing by moving the mouse in an arc or to the right. Try to hit upwards to score 6 points with one ball. Be careful however because having the ball touch the black and yellow marked walls means game over. There are no open spaces within that rectangular wall, so the balls that you hit will always definitely hit a part of the wall if your swing is strong enough, and you can score 1 to 6 points from the wall in front of you and some more points behind you although it is very hard to aim for those at your back, but the bigger portion of the wall is the dreaded black and yellow wall. Dont let your ball touch the dual colored walls and dont let the balls tumble your stumps too because that can cause a game over.
Hit And RunHit and Run is an online with two modes available for you to play and enjoy! Your goal is to whack the balls and score the run, and with that funky soundtrack and easy controls, cricket is as fun as ever. You will be playing as the batsman in this game and you have to position him with the left and right arrow keys. When you think you have already put him in the most efficient position, you can press the spacebar to activate the bowling. When the ball has been released, wait for the best moment and swing your bat in three varying moves with the left, right or down arrow keys. In challenge mode, there are six available teams and when you have chosen which team to use, you will have to beat the other five teams. You will need a certain number of runs to win against the opposing team, and the requirement differs for each team. Scoring a 6 or a four gets you an applause, however getting bowled will have you at an embarrassing moment in front of thousands of watching fans. You will be playing at a third person perspective and your character will be at the far side of the screen. In survival mode, you have to score as much as possible with limited balls. The highest run reply in ODI was between Australia and South Africa. Australia scored 434 for 4 but South African cricket team replied with 438 for 9 with one wicket and one ball spare. A very good game of cricket indeed.
