With hundreds of multiple choice questions included, it’s a relaxing way to kill time on long commutes, or between innings. It’s a simple and stylish conversion, which makes perfect use of the original illustrations, and even allows players to create their own comic strips using the images supplied.

In You Are The Umpire, you’re faced with a series of challenging decisions based on the cricket rule book it’s your job to select the right course of action in each scenario. UK studio Four Door Lemon has already turned Paul Trevillion’s newspaper comic strip, You Are the Ref, into an iPhone app, and now here’s the team’s take on the spin-off cricket version. If you know of any, please mention them in the comments section below. Update: I was unable to find any good Android or Windows Phone 7 cricket sims (I’m not a big fan of IndiaGames’ Cricket T20 World Championship, which is the only one I’ve found on Android). If you have any of your own suggestions, feel free to add them in the comments section. I’ve gone for titles that you can play on current platforms, so that means no Brian Lara Cricket (there’s a PlayStation iteration, Brian Lara Cricket 99, that should play on your PS3, but the original Megadrive version was the best) and no Super International Cricket, a great little arcade-style title for the old Super Nintendo console. The company may well reconsider, though, especially as its decision to back the emerging sport of mixed-martial arts with the much-hyped EA MMA, has not gone quite as well as hoped – the game sold just 45,000 copies in its first month on US shelves.īut there are some decent Cricket games still around. EA Sports, the leader in the sports sim genre, hasn’t produced a console cricket title for several years, choosing, instead, to concentrate on its successful Fifa and Madden brands.

If you’re revelling in England’s Ashes domination, you may already have searched the shelves of your local Game store for the latest cricket simulation – and probably come away empty-handed.

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