5 Most popular cricket PC Games

3. Ashes 2009:

This game is a tribute to the historic rivalry between Australia and England.

Ashes offers five-day, five-match tests between Australia and England using the current real-world player roster; Test matches features the same five-day matches as Ashes mode but lets you choose from 12 competing nations; One Day International (ODI) is a slimmed-down version of Test cricket with 50 overs of play per team; and 20 Overs, the most recent addition to the sport, this game user-friendly and helps you compete with delight.

You can choose the difficulty level and feel the real-time experience.

Online you’ll be able to test your skills in both friendly and ranked matches in the various disciplines. A distinct lack of online players means you might be searching for a while to find a game, but once you do, the experience runs smoothly.

Raising the game difficulty increases the precision required for you to hit the effective part of your accuracy meter as the zone shrinks in size considerably. While the bowling mechanics are simple and you’ll be up and putting your bowls down the pitch with ease, there’s also subtlety to be found here. Deliveries that swing towards or away from batsmen have different cursor types to the basic straight and slow balls.

You can keep a check on player’s stamina apart from mental set up. With a good timing of the ball, the confidence if the batsman if increase and vice versa.

Timing is important in this edition of the game, and that makes it interesting. Swinging too early will leave your stumps exposed, while going late will see you edging shots and risking being caught.

Players stand around with the ball in hand rather than making timely returns to the keeper, and the frustrating part is the leg-before-wicket decisions, which are given even when the ball pitches outside the line and clearly won’t go on to hit the stumps. Batsmen makes clear calls of “no” even for obvious fours and sixes, and unstopped overthrows can cause the ball to get stuck midair as players path to it and circle with confusion at being unable to pick it up. Licensing of the official Hawk-Eye ball-tracking system is a good inclusion, but its excessive and often irrelevant use, such as after fours and for catches, feels shoehorned in.

Only the two Ashes teams (Australia and England) are fully licensed, and you need to be passionate enough to get down to editing your favourite team.

Apart from certain visual problems and game play effects, this is will go handy with the cricket lovers. With the Ashes on stake, you better grab with both hands.

The game has been developed and published by codemasters. The minimum requirements for the game to run easily on your computer are Windows XP or Vista, 2 Ghz Pentium processor, 2.5 GB hard disk space, 1 GB RAM, GeForce 6800 or Radeon X1600 graphics card