cricket with balls

It looks like Howzat, the online cricket game, is up and live.

I know this because I spent an afternoon/evening playing it instead of writing about Rahul Dravid for Cricinfo.

It must be pretty good to keep me busy for that long.

My team name keeps changing, it was dirty dirk’s demons, then a few others, now I am North burbs XI.

I am not very good, but somehow through cagey bowling and shitty batting I seem to have won more than I have lost and got myself to level 3.

My team is full of Bushrangers, and they play in all blue, have yellow shoes, and all of them are ginger.

I open the batting with Bryce McGain, for no real reason.

My username is, surprisingly, Jrod.

I have already played against one reader of the site, and the bastard beat me.

So if you see me at howzat and you want a game, click on me, unless you’re good.

Recently I was allowed to beta test the latest online cricket game, Howzat.

Now I am not gaming expert, the last game I played obsessively was my old PC version of Prince of Persia.

But I have played a few cricket computer games over the years.

The EA ones, Allan Border’s cricket, Shane Warne’s cricket, and a bunch of others I can’t remember the name of.

I’ve mentioned a bunch of online cricket games before, stick cricket, little master and zombie cricket.

So I’m not an expert, but I’ve been around.

I did really like howzat.

It reminded me of some of the better cricket games i’ve played over the years, but online and free.

And I only played the crappy level where the ball doesn’t wing or spin, and I batted like an ass, or how Michael Hussey does now.

The game isn’t perfect, but it is still far and away the best online cricket game I have played.

When it goes live, early November they hope, you will be able to play against others, create your own teams, name your stadium, play in tournaments and all sorts of other cool shit.

Trust me when I say, this is a better game than the zombie one where you knock off Ponting’s head, and I don’t say that lightly.

My only complaint would be the lack of zombies in the game, if you could have an online cricket game where you could bounce players and take their heads clear off, that would be perfect, but this one is pretty good.