Top-notch cricket games that’ll bowl you over

Cricket may seem quintessentially British, but it’s a sport played the world over. Whether this is your first experience of a sticky wicket, or you’re familiar with flannels, these cricket games will knock you for six.

Recruit, train, and care for your test cricket team in this management sim. Take over your dad’s failing small-town team and build them up to take on the World Cup as you climb the ranks in turn-based T20 matches in both single and multiplayer modes.

Delivering a full physics-driven simulation of the sport, this is as close to picking up a bat and playing on the oval as you’ll get. This cricket game delivers a winning formula with dynamic stadiums, daily quests, motion-captured animations and impressive new batting shots.

Built with the cricket superfan in mind, you’ll be hard pressed to find a cricket game offering up as much as this. There’s cricket whites aplenty, with detailed simulations of battling, bowling, and fielding - you can even tweak speed, angle, spin, and throw types while you play.

Realism isn’t at the forefront of this arcade-focused sim. Boiling play down to its core of batting and bowling, Miniclip’s streamlined take on the sport is all about perfecting your timing and positioning to hit it for six, or bowl an over. It’s a perfect way to scratch that cricket itch while on the move.

Get your top batsmen up to the pitch in this fast-paced cricket game that’ll put your strategy and instincts to the test. Build a team from scratch, choosing the bowlers and sloggers that will lead you to success – the more games you win, the more reward kits you earn to upgrade your players and take on the other leagues.