You might not have noticed but there's a game of cricket going on at the moment. That'll explain the surreptitious earpiece worn by the guy who sits the other side of the office, and it also explains the infrequent yelps he makes as he listens to Test Match Special.

After almost a decade away, Codemasters' Brian Lara Cricket was resurrected to much fanfare and sales success in 2005. Two years later, the game received an update, and now in the present year of 2009, Brian Lara Cricket is seemingly no more, replaced by Ashes Cricket 2009.

The batting is very similar to previous codemasters cricket games. you have your big hit button, normal button block button and use your stick to aim. A new feature in this game is using Left Trigger and Left button to choose between front foot/back foot shot selection or don't hold either for the...

The world of video game cricket has been around for well over a decade, delivering us an array of truly diverse titles, from Brian Lara Cricket '96 , to the more recent Flash phenomenon, Stick Cricket .

Great for cricket fans but not of much interest to anyone else. The game is easy to pick up and play and has an in depth tutorial system, so with a bit of practice anyone can become a master.

Ashes Cricket 2009 is a game that won't sell as many copies as the other sports titles on release this summer, but definitely has a lot to offer, especially to the target audience of cricket fans who are often ignored by the likes of EA Sports.

Part of the problem with the Ashes being played in the UK is that most of the action (yes, cricket does feature action) takes place while the majority of the population is working. Those Sky ads that show people watching on their PCs while at work clearly don't paint a true picture of what employees...

It seems like something of a bad omen that on the day that Codemasters latest attempt at recreating an authentic leather-on-willow experience is released, England's batsmen surrendered the entire first innings of their Ashes match for just 102 runs.

The batsman's Holding, the bowler's Willey...

I torrented it online. I had a lot of fun playing it. The online mode was bleh, plain, but atleast they included online, which was great, and I had a ton of fun with that until there were issues with my computer, not the game, and I had to delete it.