The Sports Game Shop


Main Menu Cricket Menu

  INTERNATIONAL TEST CRICKET   by Daniel Thomas    ( PC/Windows )

Daniel is obviously a cricket and stats fan to rival the best, and has produced a program to satisfy your appetites. Recommended!

The Program

20-player squads for all the nine Test countries are featured but adding new players is a simple task requiring the input of name, batting and bowling average, fielder rating, type of batsman and style, bowler type, and fielder type, merely clicking on the relevant box. Editing existing players is just as simple.

The most used method of play will be the human-controlled side against a computer-controlled side in a Test series of whatever length you choose. You can also control both sides, play against a human opponent, or allow the PC to control both sides and zip through a 6-match series in 7 seconds!!! And still produce all the usual stats and detailed scorecards.

Assuming you are playing England against a computer-controlled Australia you are presented with the current England squad of 20 players together with Skill Factors for batting and bowling, and a current Morale Rating.

By selecting Computer Side a suggested side is offered which can be accepted, amended, or rejected completely.

The Match

Five icons with text description advise you of the condition of ball, pitch, degree of bounce, speed of outfield, and weather.

I won the toss and decided to bat with Atherton and Stewart opening. I can adjust the degree of defence or agression for each batsman, and when the time comes, for the bowler and fielding side.

Pressing the left mouse button now produces six (or more) icons representing each delivery of the first over with clear displays for runs scored, wickets, umpire signals, appeals turned down, and dropped catches. Scores are shown at the bottom of the screen. Eight overs can be displayed on screen scrolling one by one off the top. Neat and effective, like all aspects of this program.

After 13.2 overs a pop-up informs me that the opening partnership is now worth 51. Two overs later Atherton departs caught and bowled Julian 37 with 5 fours and no sixes.

At 12:35 Stewart completes his 50 off 70 balls, 4 fours and 1 six. With England 93-1 we'll leave Headingley while on top and with Morale improving.

Summary

The alternative to running a series is staging a league, including a complete new input squad, and playing home and away everyone against everyone. A full league table is displayed with all the accompanying comprehensive stats and scorecards.

All the stats archives can be reset, and you can call up any individual Player Screen (much as in Stats Soccer Replay) with a stack of stats and info.

This is a super program. Beautifully designed and programmed, very user-friendly, excellent presentation. I would have been proud to have designed it.

Buy it, use it, enjoy it. You won't be disappointed.

System Requirements

If you can match that you can look forward to many hours of absorbing test series, leagues, etc., solo or face-to-face, with massive stats archives.


The game is distributed by email only.
Free of Postage & Packing charges.


  INTERNATIONAL TEST CRICKET   -   £19.95 GBP

~ To order please click on the button below ~
~ Then use your own credit / debit card, or your PayPal account ~

                         

~ Our PayPal account is in the name of our parent company 'Harman and Eady' ~



Main Menu Cricket Menu