Stick Cricket is a Macromedia flash cricket game website. The game, was developed by Cann Creative , a company from Sydney, Australia. It runs from any web browser which has the Macromedia flash player plug-in and Internet access.
Stick Cricket is a popular game, being one of the most visited cricket websites with over 35,000 visits a day. The average size of the game is around 500 KB.
History
The current version of Stick Cricket is version 3.1 [1].
Current versions of Stick Cricket have human batsmen. However, the batsmen were really sticks before the Stick Cricket game was moved from the servers of Cann Creative to it's own website. Other websites have a modified (usually outdated) version of Stick Cricket [2] that lack the cosmetic detail of the updated version at the official website.
Features
The Stick Cricket website has the following:
- Online Cricket game - Four of play: Tournament, Slog, World Domination and practice.
- Head 2 Head - Modified game based on current International cricket matches.
- Forums - Stick Cricket and cricket related forums [3].
- Scores can be saved in certains modes of the game
Objective
Stick Cricket is viewed from a batsmen view (Currently, Stick Cricket is a batting only game).
The basic objective is to scores as many runs as possible, by the following:
- Tournament - Score runs to beat the a national teams total to progress to the next time and beat the World Champions, within 10 overs (60 deliveries). The tournament mode is currently based on the ICC Champions Trophy.
- Slog - Score as many runs as possible within 10 overs against a selected team (an XI).
- World Domination - Score runs to beat a national teams total within 20 overs to gain passwords and, eventually go in to the draw to make your own team up if won.
- Practice - Choose from a type of bowler and practice, as the name suggests. Scores cannot be saved in practice mode.
Starting
When Stick Cricket loads, a welcome screenshot comes up. It allows a user to select a national cricket team or a specialized team selected by the winner of the entire World Domination mode.You can also choose what type of game you want to play.
Shots
Up - Foward drive and defend: Not effective against leg spiners and off spinners.
Down - Duck: (especially from bouncers). Risk of being out LBW, if the delivery is not a bouncer.
Left - Pull and hook, if miss timed a on drive, but often getts caught: Particularly effective against all bowlers.
Right - Cut: Effective against fast, outswing bowlers.
Bowlers
There are different types of bowlers:
Each has their own weaknesses and strengths, however, many people have found fast bowling to be the easiest to face while spin considered to be the hardest.
Easter eggs
There are hidden features in the game, which can be activated after clicking on some locations during the game. "Easter eggs" as it is called, include:
- 1987 teams - Play against the 1987 team, and;
- Domestics teams - Play against some of the best domestic teams in the world. Such as New South Wales, Mumbai and so forth.
Facts
- 1 million visits per month
- Australia is the country receiving and thus sending the most traffic
- Friday is the most popular day of the week
- The average duration is 17.3 minutes
Source: Stick Cricket: About
Sources
- Stick Cricket.com [4] Accessed 19/02/2005
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