With the cricketing world in full flow, records are being broken and remade. With legendary players like Tendulkar still proving their mettle in the arena after two decades, with young and blood-thirsty fast bowlers coming to rise to their teams’ calls, and with smaller teams coming up to play like champions, and with squads like West Indies, their history and heritage failing to flatter their current form, the game has achieved a delicate but interesting balance in the international circuit, offering more excitement for fans than ever before.
Some people may need a pinch of salt for this, but the T20 continues to attract diverse audiences, and has certainly monetized the sport to an extent that can make one just stutter in awe at the figures of the average sponsorship deals. Cricket just sold out, and as a fan who worships the game for all that it is, I’m not complaining.
Being a bunch of fresh engineering graduates from college with a lot of time, ideas and red-bulls with us, we started to brainstorm on the best way to take the cricketing experience one step further. We were ambitious, and almost stubborn in believing that we could contribute positively to the great game.
We finally arrived on an idea. We had some criteria – It had to be interactive, it had to be social, and the biggest of all – it had to feel like REAL cricket where the millions of fans across the world could actually feel involved with the game, reliving their cherished moments, and feeling completely in control of those moments. It was to be this massively multiplayer cricket game that was free to play, yet casual enough for most cricket fans to get in and start playing without having to stand upside down to install the game. Sure, it was the first in its genre, and we were taking a big risk, but in our heads, we were seeing glowing orbs of cricketing goodness and that was enough for us to pull the trigger and get started.
So the development process began, and after a lot of blood, sweat, tears and beers over a period of 6 months, we finished the game. I’m certainly not going to talk too much about the game itself, but let me tell you there are plenty of features for you to keep coming back! So go ahead and try it out, remake records, build your dream team, and hold the flag of the game high.
The game’s called HowZat – http://www.howzat.com – And it’s free, if you’re wondering 
Let us know what you think!
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