The Google Doodle for Monday, July 17 highlights the start of the Women’s Cricket World Cup, which advances into the knockout rounds beginning on Tuesday when England plays South Africa:
Women’s Cricket World Cup 2017 Google Doodle hides the most addictive mini game
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
To accompany the event, there’s a cricket holding a bat, and even better — when you click it, you get to play an adorable cricket game in which you as a cricket try to score as many runs as possible against a team of snails.
It’s a simple game where you click to score as many runs as possible, with the bowling getting progressively faster after you hit milestones every 50 runs.
If you get out for zero, you turn into a duck, which is the term in cricket for getting out in a scoreless inning.
The Women’s World Cup has been wonderful so far, and now that we’re in the business end, it’s only going to get better. Host nation England is left standing, along with Australia, India, and South Africa — all of whom are vying to play in the final on July 23. It’s awesome to see Google highlight an event far too many people probably didn’t know was going on.
Meanwhile, the simple little cricket game has completely enraptured the SB Nation offices, and so far I’ve posted the high score with a mighty 430:
Try and beat that.
Update: Graham MacAree beat it.
Update: I beat him back.
Update: Graham beat me again.
