5 most iconic cricket video games of all time

#2 Cricket 07

This cricket game will take you straight back to the time where you might have struggled with memorizing Shakespeare quotes but could synchronize your "You can't set fields for a shot like that, brilliant!" along with the game's commentators.

After seven editions of failure, poor player engines and an inability to resemble an actual match of cricket, EA Sports finally got their act together and blessed us with Cricket 07. Scenarios from the Ashes 2005 that were as gripping as the series between cricket's oldest rivals, a comprehensive player creation tool, domestic circuits and pre-loaded fixtures of two seasons of County Cricket and Aussie State cricket, World Cup, Champions Trophy, this game had it all.

The bowling was much improved from its predecessors, as was the variety in the batting, while that made the learning curve for this game somewhat steeper than all the games before, it only meant that the user experience was much more enhanced. It also supported joysticks and gaming controllers, which led to a broader ground of interactivity.

Although online PvP would have made this near-perfect game virtually immortal despite the usual glitches you see in simulation video games, the gaming community over the world keeps the game active to this day with latest mods for every major upcoming tournament.

Oh, and, "It's Mark Nicholas and alongside me, is Richie Benaud."