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Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, fasten your seat belts to test drive the game of Cricket we have been waiting for, well you guessed it right its called Howzat. You can play an over for free online as discussed earlier in my intro article regarding the game at the Howzat site. After a single over you will be asked to sign up in order to play the full game. A word about signing up, you can do it the old fashioned way or you can use your existing Facebook account, in case you happen to have one (who doesn’t).

During sign up you will be required to select your team form the various options that are available, yours faithfully selected Pakistan off course. To play the game simply click on the Play link and presto! The 14MB something data will be downloaded to your PC. You will see a screen showing details of matches in progress, a list of players on the right side of this screen and off course the much needed chat at the bottom. Click the info button to fetch info about an ongoing match, and then join it or simply hit the join button to jump in to the match.

During this you might as well get invites to join a match or some lone player asking for a match via the chat interface. Other than this you can also create a new match by clicking the New Match button. Playing is simple, if you choose to Bat you have to time the ball to hit a shot. The game allows one to change a player’s location using arrow keys followed by Spacebar press. Similarly, the bowler can select the place where to bounce his/her ball by clicking the spacebar at the appropriate place.

One good feature is the online chat facility, which allows one to chat with his opponent. The sounds are average but then what would you expect from a game like this. Online help is also available, limited options for adjusting the fields are also shown on-screen. It is fun to play, I say give it a try and enjoy.

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