Stick Cricket (Web Site)
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Stick Cricket is an Adobe Flash cricket game website.
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Objective
Stick Cricket is viewed from the facing batsman's end. Although it is always viewed from this angle it is possible to bowl, but this feature is currently only included in the 2 player version of the game.
The basic objective is to scores as many runs as possible, by the following:
- All Star Slog - Score as many runs as possible within a selected number of overs (5, 10, 20 or 50) against 'the best bowlers of all time'.
- Head2Head - Play in the current fixtures
- T2 Super 8 - Play 2 over matches to the win the 'Stick Cricket World Cup'. This consists of 8 top teams. You must win matches to top the league table.
- Challenge - Choose a club and score as many runs as you can for them from 10 balls. Every boundary (4s and 6s) gives you an extra ball.
- Multiplayer - Released on the 12th of December and is still in BETA. You can play against people from the other side of the world and it is super fast. You have 5 overs and you have a new addition to the game, bowling. You have a choice of deliveries which is very different to the old version of the game when you used the number pad.
Starting
When Stick Cricket loads, a welcome screenshot comes up. It allows a user to select a national cricket team. You can also choose what type of game you want to play. There's 5 , 10, 20 and 50 over matches to pick from. You have to be a member/ logged in to play 50 over matches then you can save every ten overs.
Shots
- Up, W - Forward drive and defend.
- Down, S - Duck: (especially from bouncers). Risk of being out LBW, if the delivery is not a bouncer.
- Left, A - Pull and hook, if full an on-drive, but often gets caught: Effective against all bowlers.
- Right, D - Cut, Cover Drive and Reverse Sweep (spinners only): Effective against fast, outswing bowlers but you are at risk of getting caught out at cover.
Bowlers
There are different types of bowlers:
- Fast - Shaun Pollock, Brett Lee etc.
- Inswing bowlers - Nathan Bracken, Makhaya Ntini, Sreesanth etc.
- Outswing bowlers - Shoaib Akhtar, Chaminda Vaas, Stephen Harmison, Zaheer Khan etc.
- Medium pace - Scott Styris, Munaf Patel etc.
- Slow Orthordox/Off spin - Muttiah Muralitharan, Monty Panesar, Harbhajan Singh etc.
- Leg spin - Shane Warne, Abdul Qadir, Anil Kumble etc.
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, especially the leg spinners. This is because of impatient and inexperienced players trying to make a shot too early, forcing the batsman to mistime a shot, often resulting in the fall of a wicket. Outswing and inswing bowlers are seen as harder to face than pure fast bowlers as the ball does not always follow the initial line, causing inexperienced players to miss the ball with the wrong shot. The chance of getting out increases as the batman's individual score increases because the game is programmed to reduce the margin of error as the score advances.
