The Cricket is a series of cricket video games published by EA Sports and designed for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2 platforms. Uptil now, 8 different games of the series have been released.
As of 2011, there are eight games in the Cricket series on Microsoft Windows & PS2 platforms.
Cricket 96 was released for the MS-DOS PCs in 1995. The sequel to Super International Cricket on the SNES, it was developed by Melbourne House (as Beam Software) and published by EA Sports. It was released as Ian Botham's International Cricket 96 in Europe.
Cricket 97 was released for PCs in 1997. The sequel to Cricket 96, it was developed by Melbourne House (as Beam Software) and published by EA Sports. It was the final cricket game in the series to be developed by Melbourne House, EA Sports followed Cricket 97 with Cricket World Cup 99, developed by Creative Assembly. It had commentaries by Ritchie Benaud and Ian Botham. For the first time, this game had 3D stadiums and better visual effects. Two versions of this game were released known as Ashes Tour Edition and Cricket Ashes Tour