And Brian Lara Cricket was definitely that. Any game that convinced me to even temporarily unplug my Super Nintendo must have been very bloody good indeed. In fact, much like with Shane Warne Cricket, I went out of my way to buy a new console, in this case a Megadrive, purely to play it. I make no secret of the fact that I loved this game back in the day. If you have been feeling a particular emptiness of late, perhaps one you have attributed to the soulless milieu of contemporary existence, or your inability to dance to your own personal boomboom (something someone much smarter than us once told us is particularly important), maybe what you have really been missing is a little Brian Lara Cricket in your life. But that is pretty much it as far as formalities goes. Secondly, it is not the greatest cricket game ever made, that particular honor belongs to Shane Warne Cricket ’99. Firstly it is not Graham Gooch World Class Cricket (also known as Allan Border Cricket to more fortunate inhabitants of Australasia, or even Jonty Rhodes Cricket to our South African cousins), although the two are so similar as to be virtually identical. When talking about a game of the calibre of Brian Lara Cricket ‘96, it’s best to begin with a few things that it is not.

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