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Brian Lara Cricket was one of the most popular games growing up for ardent gaming fans across the world. The game is still being spoken about by cricket fans as one of the best cricket simulation games across platforms. Vitality Blast recently put out a video of a run out which rekindled fans' excitement for the game.
Roelof Van Merwe was bowling and the batter missed the ball as the wicketkeeper dropped it. Thinking the ball had gone far away from the wicketkeeper, the batter started to run. The wicketkeeper, for his part, picked up the ball and dislodged the bail to run out the batter. Vitality Blast captioned the video by saying, “When you accidentally press A on Brian Lara Cricket”
It was a hilarious moment, which has been rehashed from England’s premier T20 competition. There were over 60,000 likes on the video as the fans came up with funny comments on the video.
What was the Brian Lara Cricket series?
Former West Indian legend Brian Lara was immortalized via video game. The game was developed in the West Indies and was published by Codemasters. The first game was released in 1994, the same year that Lara made his world record score of 375.
A total of five editions were released with the final version being released in 2007, which was Lara’s last year in cricket. The first two editions in 1994 and 1996 were basic versions of gameplay.
The game makers upped their content when they started to face competition from EA Sports, who had launched their own cricket variant. In 1999 during the Cricket World Cup, Brian Lara Cricket 99 came out to counter EA Cricket 99. In Australia and New Zealand, it was named Shane Warne Cricket.
1999’s variant had Quick and Friendly match variants along with the World Cup, World Series, and Knockout match variants. There were also Test Matches and Test series where the player could play a minimum of one season to a maximum of 7 seasons of the longest format.
The most profitable variant was the Brian Lara Cricket 2005 series where the game had got a 7.5 out of 10 rating. That version is still being spoken about with fond memories by cricket game-playing fans. In 2007, which was the final version T20 cricket was included along with the various modes that kept the fans enthralled.