Google celebrates ICC 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup with interactive Doodle

In the meantime, you can play the game (very fun and easy to get lost in) and tell your English friends you understand cricket now.

Ah, summer: the sound of leather on willow, and the spectacle of cricket. cricket! A team of crickets sans tickets have set up their own wickets for a game of pest cricket! Don't be fooled by their sluggish looks - these fielders can be fast on their feet!

With the Indian Women's Cricket Team entering the World Cup semifinals after beating New Zealand, the focus of cricket fans has shifted to the girls from the boys.

"We wanted to make sure our Doodle works for everyone, including those on slower mobile networks", writes Google on its Google Doodle Blog, "We kept the file size fly-sized, and the result is our smallest interactive Doodle ever - even snail networks can load it in seconds". They feel that the women's games have always been taken casually, but now, Mithali Raj's sixes and Deepti Sharma's bowling are bringing it some much-deserved attention.