Flick Cricket Game

Advantages: An iPhone cricket game...
Disadvantages: ...very basic

...You may have noticed I've written the odd review or two about iPhone application games in recent weeks...and you'd be right. So here's another one - Flick Cricket. There's a game doing the rounds on the internet called Stick Cricket which is extremely addictive and enjoyable...unfortunately the Flick version is completely different, and not quite up to the same standard; but then again this application is free for all you good, good iPhone users. The game is based on a six-over match, where the user always bats first and then attempts to defend the total as the 'computer' chases it down. On the main menu there are a couple of options - Quick Facebook Game, New Normal Game, Continue Game and Connect with Facebook. Now, I've not delved into the world of the Facebook options, but I believe it allows you to upload photos for players...

carl.mcqueen 30.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Flick Cricket (iPhone)

Wild Cricket

Advantages: Animals in a Beautiful Setting
Disadvantages: Tranquillity Lost at Peak Times

...The BBC sit-com To The Manor Born, starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, was filmed at Cricket St Thomas. The lovely valley setting of the grounds is where you will find the Wildlife Park. Just south of the A30 between Chard and Crewkerne, in Somerset. It is well sign posted from the main road. This historic Manor was owned for centuries by barons, then Mr Fry, the chocolate manufacturer bought it in 1897. It passed to two other families before becoming a hotel in 1999 and is now owned by Warners. I will tell you a little more about that later. A free brochure is available in the wildlife gift shop, along with many other leaflets of interest to visitors to the area. There are three pricing periods for the park, Peak, Off-Peak and Winter. This reflects the fact that like other great attractions, it can become a victim...

luckyarchers 06.10.2005 · Read review
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Review of The Wildlife Park, Cricket St Thomas

Cricket '97

Advantages: The birth of cricket on the PC!
Disadvantages: Well...it's getting on a bit!!!

...Forget Brian Lara Cricket. Don't even think about the new Cricket 2005 from EA Sports. This is where it all began! EA Sports original production - Cricket 97. With the slight boredom of a jobless summer hanging over me, I opted to whip out this quite literally, old-school game, and then it struck me...what if I can actually review it?!? And low and behold, I could! So, here's my best attempt...and please bare in mind how, in just nine years, the world of computer gaming has drastically changed. Put it this way...it begin with, the case holding the disc features a picture of Ian Botham playing a cut shot, in early-nineties one-day clothing... oh yes, we're getting retro here So once you've installed it onto your computer?oh and trust me, nowadays, there's no way your computer won't be compatible for it!! Through the advice...

carl.mcqueen 23.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Cricket 97 (PC)

Ashes Cricket 2009 - Guarantee an Ashes win (In your home)

Advantages: Cricket on the Wii!
Disadvantages: Maybe classic matches woudl have been good

...The Nintendo Wii has become somewhat of a phenomenon over the last few years. I myself bought my console this year and have become an addict. I even have a Wii Fit and balance board. Sports are a highlight in my life. I play golf, and enjoy playing golf on my Wii. What I feel the Wii has been crying out for for such a long time now, particularly with its unique control system, is a game concerning my favourite game, cricket. I have played cricket on computer and games system for quite some time. First there was Brian Lara Cricket, then Brian Lara 2005, then Brian Lara 2008. I never really had too much time for the EA Sports versions of cricket (the one thing that my versions had in common was that they were all developed by Codemasters). This year Codemasters have produced yet another game. It is designed for various platforms...

Nolly 12.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Ashes Cricket 2009 (Wii)

The Cricketers Pub

Advantages: large garden, BBQ's held on Sunday, cheap drinks, friendly atmosphere
Disadvantages: A little out of town

...The Cricketers Pub is located in the village of River, just outside Dover. It is located right next door to Crabble Cricket, Football and Rugby Grounds. I like the Cricketers pub as it certainly has a village feel to it, and you tend to get a good crowd of people in here because it is not in the main town, and doesnt attract young drunks! The Pub The bar inside is fairly large with plenty of seating. There is a large plasma TV which shows various sporting events such as football, tennis and rugby games. There is a lower level to the bar area, and in here are a couple of gaming machines as well as pool tables. In one corner there is also a dart board. To the left of the pool tables, is a small corridor which leads out to the male and female toilets. If you walk past the toilets, you will find yourself in the pub garden. There is...

Jamie73 11.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Cricketers Pub, Dover, Kent

For the cricket nut...

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

...Lords Cricket Ground Museum, is one for the cricket lover, and is the permanent home of The Ashes, which still remains Cricket's greatest prize, despite the technicolor World Cup and the newly inaugurated World Test Championship, spawned from an unofficial competition featured in Wisden Cricket Monthly and the yearly Cricket Almanack. The MCC Cricket Museum started life as a gallery of cricket pictures, before expanding to encompass all sorts of Cricketana, having been set up in 1953 by Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane, a leading luminary of the time of the MCC. Here you can see a lot of Cricketana connected with the past greats of the game, with a large collection of W.G. Grace Cricketana, including the portrait of him batting, replete with his monstrous beard, the Ashes, which rarely leave the Museum, with winning teams being presented...

Morgenhund 18.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of Lords Cricket Ground Museum (London)

Thats Cricket

Advantages: Excellent graphics, The best cricket game out there
Disadvantages: Number of bugs

...So crickets not the most popular sport in England; many people think of it as boreing and who can blame them when half the test matches finish in draws or defeats for England!?. However the one day game is much more attractive and on a strategic and skill level i feel cricket is way above football, rugby or probably any other sport. That said I am a cricket fan and the current world cup was just what was needed to regain my interest. Despite Englands early departure (due to politics i might add!) its been an entertaining world cup with a few upsets and some great games. In this frame of mind i felt i needed to buy a cricket game (so i could get personal revenge on the Aussies) - EA Cricket 2002 is currently the best on offer. Price EA Cricket usually retails at around £29.99 but as it gets older you will probably be able to...

roberthart 15.03.2003 (16.03.2003) · Read review
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Review of EA Sports Cricket 2002 (PC)

The Southern Hemisphere's Home of Cricket?

Advantages: Excellent all round views, cheap tickes, great atmosphere
Disadvantages: expensive food wth poor choice

...Being a huge cricket fan, a trip to the MCG was always going to be one of the highlight's of my cricket club's tour to the Golden Country. Before we'd even got into the ground I was totally overawed, the sheer size of the ground was just so far greater than anything that a cricket fan can envisage in this country. The ground hold 100,108 people - to put this into context the largest ground in England holds just under 30,000! The first thing you see when walking up to the ground are the eight massive floodlight pylons designed to allow day/night cricket - again, there are no grounds in England with permanent floodlights. We had our tickets in our hands - printed off with the barcode folded over the correct way and headed through the turnstile. Here was one feature that I was so impressed with, despite the fact that 65,000 people...

martin0201 06.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne

International Cricket Captain 2006

Advantages: The only cricket management sim, stats and rules updated for 2006
Disadvantages: Not vastly different from previous years versions.

...Every time a sports management sim is released, it is always compared to the brilliant Football Manager. This is probably one of the main reasons why there arent as many 'minority' sports sims out there as there should be. The International Cricket Captain series has been running since 2000 with annual updates to squads, statistics and rule changes that may have come into place. Commentary is provided by the BBC's cricket correspondant Jonathan Agnew. There are a number of game styles you can play on startup. If you are playing with a friend you can opt for the 2 player mode which will allow you to play a one-off match with each of you playing as a team. The most popular option will probably be the one player mode which will allow you to either take charge of any of the first class county sides, the England side plus a county...

craggybuk 15.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of International Cricket Captain 2006 (PC)

Cricket meets the gamers again

Advantages: Lots of game modes and variety of shots
Disadvantages: messed up player names, repeated commentry, lots of bugs

...EA had always let the gamers down with their different cricket games. From Cricket 97 to Cricket 2005, there have been some very less interesting titles which had uncountable number of errors. For the people who thought that Cricket 97 was stupid, we had a number of games which proved that the game can have more problems. Cricket 2000 was one of the worst among them, and finally EA comes up with not a perfect, but a much better title. The game doesn't come anyway near Brian Lara Cricket 2007 in terms of graphics, but the game scores in all other fields. Some glitches lower the game's rating but overall, its a fine game to kill time, and those who complain about the game should give it just another try. REQUIREMENTS 1.0 GHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent 256 MB of RAM DirectX 9.0c compatible 3D accelerated 32 MB video card...

existtoinspire 10.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Cricket 2007 (PC)