Day 2 of Play at Home Popular Past Doodles: Google celebrates 2017 ICC Champions Trophy

Tech giant Google had yesterday launched a 10 days series, feature popular past doodles. These are interactive games, that people liked very much in the past. Yesterday, it was: Coding. And today's doodle features Cricket. The doodle, in the past, had a very small reach. The doodle was not shown in the US. But today, this doodle had an almost a worldwide reach.

The main doodle has the G and E playing the game at home with a bread roller and socks. The homepage Doodle signifies how people are keeping busy at home while they play games with whatever available at home. But when you click on the game, it takes us to the 2017 Doodle.

Google Homepage Doodle

The inside doodle features crickets, the insects, playing Cricket, the game. (What a metaphorical instance!). The pocket-sized game features a simple UI where you can swing your bat and score runs. The snails are your opponents, to refer to snail-like internet. Google created it in the honour of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy.

Google in their blog said:

We know that cricket is loved worldwide, so we wanted to make sure our Doodle works for everyone, including those on slower mobile networks. We kept the file size fly-sized, and the result is our smallest interactive Doodle ever — even snail networks can load it in seconds.

Speaking from personal experience, the game is ridiculously fun. When you click on the doodle, it takes you to a game that will allow you to bat. It is just like cricket. You can go for a sixer or a single or you can get bowled out. A beaver umpire shows up from underground with an "out" signboard if you are dismissed. The Doodle Cricket game is a match between snails and crickets.

What happened in the actual game?

Well, Pakistan won the 15-ODI Series with a margin of 3 wickets against Sri Lanka.