Top 5 most popular PC cricket games

Wouldn’t it be fun being Virat Kohli and smashing the bowlers all around the ground? How many of you would love to step into the shoes of Kagiso Rabada and hurl some ear-whistling bouncers at the batsmen? While all of this and much more might not be possible in reality for most of us, the new-age cricket games actually let you get as close as possible.

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) a major part of all these cricket games now, there is a whole new level of excitement about it. It is a lot of fun playing these PC cricket games and various studios are constantly working on giving the best experience to the users. There are several games that were released of late and are catching everyone’s attention.

Here are five of the most popular cricket games in 2019

5. Don Bradman Cricket 2017

Even though it was released towards the end of 2016, Don Bradman Cricket 2017 continues to be one of the most popular cricket games around. Developed by Big Ant Studios, it is highly rated by the critics and is available on Microsoft Windows, Play Station 4 and Xbox One. The game has got new batting shots like the helicopter shot and new visual, special effects.

There is a career mode in this game which is quite interesting. In this, players can start their career from the local level and choose the regions that they want to play for before they get called for domestic and international duties. The teams are also dynamic; the other players retire during the course of a player’s career.

There would be phases where there is a slump in form. Moreover, the user can create his own stadium to recreate their own local cricket grounds. However, the game doesn’t have real player likenesses because it doesn’t have the licences for the same.

4. Tabletop Cricket

While it might not be the most intuitive of games, Tabletop Cricket is still a lot of fun to play. This is another product of the Big Ant Studios and is highly entertaining. It is all about finding the gaps in the field or smacking the ball over the ropes. There are several nice elements in this game.

You can go on a World Tour and compete as one of the 16 countries. In the process, you can take part in as many as 60 challenges and matches.

You can play against your friends or even go solo with different games types like T10, T20, ODI and Indoor Cricket Rules. It has got full keyboard support and the progress can be saved on the cloud. This game can be played on PC as well as PS3.

3. Big Bash Boom

Big Bash Boom is an arcade-style cricket game and is quite unique from the others. Bobble-headed players are the biggest attraction of this game and it is fully licenced. This means that the players, squads, teams and stadiums are all the same as they are in BBL and WBBL 2018/19. There are special effects like flaming trails when a player hits a six, beach-ball-sized cricket powerups amongst many others.

This game is available on a wide variety of platforms including Microsoft Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation4, PS4, Sony PlayStation 4, Steam PC and Xbox One. Along with the batsmen, there are powerups available for the bowlers as well.

While the ball size becomes huge when a batsman uses a powerup, the bat size shrinks to that of a stump when the powerup is used by a bowler. This minimalistic game is a lot of fun when you play it with your friend.

2. Cricket Captain 2019

Cricket Captain is quite an exciting cross-platform cricket game and its 2019 edition is quite interesting. The game has got the new Test Championships and you can also play different T20 leagues around the world.

The database of this game contains over 7,000 players and it even includes every historical international player. You can pick two elevens of any players from history and even put them in a competition against each other.

Furthermore, you can recreate various historical scenarios including those from the World Cup and the England-Australia battles. The graphics of this game are decent enough and you can play it on PC, Android as well as iOS.

1. Cricket 19

Cricket 19 is the official game of Ashes 2019 which is built by Big Ant Studios in collaboration with the ECB. It features all the formats of the game, both men and women’s teams making it one of the best cricket games at the moment. It is fully licenced for England and Australia teams and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine makes things really interesting.

The AI will figure out plans for the players as well as the team. Specific bowling plans are deployed while bowling which makes the opposition highly realistic. Furthermore, when the computer is batting, it keeps protecting the weaker players by rotating the strike and will look to find gaps pro-actively.

You can even recreate some of the epic battles in the history and the career mode is much more enhanced in this latest edition of the game. This game is available on Microsoft Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation4, PS4, Steam PC and Xbox One.