


Australia would be perfect for a nail-biting, rivalry driven encounter. For my first game, I thought a one-day international match of NZ vs. For example South Africa gives you a green and yellow menu setup, or New Zealand gives you black and grey visuals. When you first start the game, you get to select your preferred country that allocates you a matching theme and your default starting team. The game also includes a selection of “all-star” type teams and the ability to customise your own squad of players with a team editor. However Ashes Cricket 2009 also includes other cricketing nations with New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Ireland, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Kenya and Ireland. This time Codemasters have teamed up with Transmission Games once again and updated their successful Ricky Ponting / Brian Lara franchise.Īs the name suggests, the game includes fully licensed versions of the English and Australian international cricket teams, each complete with a 23 man-squad of recognisable faces. Cricket games definitely are few and far between (in fact if memory serves me right, the last one we saw was back in 2007). Its sequel Cricket 19 was released in May 2019.As England and Australia currently battle it out in the Ashes series overseas, cricket fans will soon be able to step up to the crease with Ashes Cricket 2009. As well as this, the game featured a player creation tool that could be used to either create real players and publish them on the game's "cricket academy", or use them in the series or personal player careers. As part of this, the game contained the ability to take either England or Australia through the Ashes series, or play as an individual star player. It was the first Big Ant cricket game to be officially licensed to modern teams and players after the Don Bradman Cricket titles, and had the full licence for the 2017-18 Ashes series, which took place in Australia. The Xbox One edition cover for Ashes Cricket.Īshes Cricket is a 2017 video game created by Big Ant Studios, and released worldwide on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows.
