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A free 3D cricket game for Australia — play live, in your browser
Australia kit · home pitch: fast & bouncy
Cricket in Australia is pace and bounce. The game knows it. Howzat Live is a real 3D cricket game — bat, ball, bowler, eleven fielders and a crowd — that runs in the browser on a laptop, a PC or a phone. No download, no app store, no payment. Build your own eleven in Australia’s kit and play a live match against a real person anywhere in the world, or against the computer at three levels.
Play free as Australia See the Test match
How Australian pitches play in the game
Australian pitches in Howzat Live are set to the fast, bouncy surface the Gabba and Perth are famous for: the ball comes on to the bat quicker, carries higher, and a stroke that is not quite timed goes to the slip cordon instead of through it. Quick bowlers get bounce and carry; batters who time it well are rewarded with extra pace off the bat. Spinners get less. If you grew up on a hard Australian deck, this is the one that plays like home.
The home ground you choose decides the surface. Australia is fast and bouncy - pace bowling, carry to the slips, and lbw for the ball that beats the bat. Play away in another country and the pitch changes with it, so a side built for the Gabba has to think again at the MCG or at Galle.
Big Bash cricket game? Here is the honest answer
People in Australia search for “big bash cricket game” a lot, so to be clear: Howzat Live has no licence from the Big Bash League and uses no franchise names or player likenesses. What you get instead is your own team. Name all eleven, decide who bats left-handed, who bowls pace and who bowls spin, who keeps wicket, and send them out in Australia’s colours. Your names go on the scoreboard, the scorecard and the commentary line — c †Rashid b Waqar — and you can save up to twelve teams.
Live, against a real person
One bats, one bowls, the server times every ball so you both see the same delivery. Talk between overs. Quick Match pairs you in seconds.
Laptop, PC or phone
Keyboard on a laptop; swipe and tap on a phone turned sideways. A phone player and a laptop player can face each other in the same match.
T20-length or a full Test
Five, ten or twenty overs a side for a quick game. Or a four-innings Test with declarations, the follow-on, DRS and a save you can come back to days later.
Your flag walks out with you
Pick Australia — or any of 200+ countries — at sign-up. It sits beside your name on the scoreboard and in chat, and your rating climbs the Scale from 0 to 10.
When Australian players are online
Evenings in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are mornings in London and lunchtime in Karachi and Mumbai, so there is nearly always someone in the lobby to bowl at you. If nobody is free, play the computer: it picks its own field, bowls to a plan, and on a fast deck picks four quicks and a spinner.
How to start playing the cricket game in Australia
- Create a free account — a username, a password and Australia as your country.
- Build your XI in Australia’s kit, or use the ready-made side and get straight in.
- Open the lobby and hit Quick Match, or start a Test against the computer.
- Bat or bowl. Bowling is line, length and pace; batting is timing and direction. Five matches earns your first Scale badge.
Questions Australian players ask
Can I play as Australia in this cricket game?
Yes. Pick the Australian kit when you build your team, name your own eleven, and they walk out in green and gold. You can also set your home ground to Australia so the pitch plays fast and bouncy.
Is this a Big Bash cricket game?
No. Howzat Live has no Big Bash League licence and no franchise names. It is a free 3D cricket game where you create your own team, in Australia's kit if you like, and play T20-length matches or full four-innings Tests against real people or the computer.
Does the cricket game work on a laptop in Australia?
Yes. It runs in Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox on any laptop or PC with nothing to install, and on an Android or iPhone browser held sideways. It is free and there is no app to download.
Is Howzat Live a live cricket game?
Yes - live in the sense that matters for a game: every 1v1 match is played in real time against another person, one batting and one bowling, with the server timing each ball so you both see the same delivery at the same moment. It is not a live-scores site; it is a cricket game you play.
Is this a real 3D cricket game, not a stick-cricket style one?
It is a full 3D cricket game: a bowler with a run-up, a ball that swings, seams or turns off the pitch, a batter you time and direct, eleven fielders who chase, dive and take catches, DRS with ball tracking in Tests, and a crowd. It renders in the browser, so there is nothing to download.
The cricket game in other countries
Every one of these plays on its own kind of pitch. Pick a home ground, then go and play away.
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Howzat Live - a free 3D online cricket game. Built by Hisham Sarwar.