The Cricket Simulator

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The Cricket Simulator (also known as Syedur Rahman’s Cricket Simulator or simply as CrickSim) is a DOS-based cricket simulation program written in QBASIC by Syedur Rahman. The application is freeware and can be downloaded from CrickSim’s official site http://cricksim.thesportcity.com/.^[1]

The program provides the user with current international squads to simulate cricket games (tests or one-dayers) with.^[2] After having picked the teams, the user can see the game simulated ball-by-ball in text with commentary. The newest version of CrickSim allows the user to create and update squads and transfer players between squads. It also has a statistics feature which updates the batting, bowling and fielding statistics (e.g. averages, runs scored, wickets taken, best performances etc) for each player after every game. These statistics can be viewed as player career summaries appear on most cricket websites and television broadcasts. Detailed scorecards and ball-by-ball commentary from simulated games can also be saved to be viewed later.^[3]

CrickSim v5.3 was released in 2001 and was considered then as arguably the best freeware cricket simulator on the net.^[4] It was used by numerous sites in simulating international fixtures and fantasy leagues.^[5]^[6] The squads were updated for the 2003 Cricket World Cup, however the program itself remained unchanged despite reported bugs and requests for a Windows version.^[7] It has been gradually replaced as the first choice for most fantasy league sites by more advanced Windows-based programs such as International Test Cricket (ITC) and HowZat One Day International (HODI).^[8]