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A free 3D cricket game for New Zealand — play live, in your browser
New Zealand kit · home pitch: fast & bouncy
Green tops, swing, and a cordon waiting for the edge. 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 New Zealand’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 New Zealand See the Test match
How New Zealand pitches play in the game
Set New Zealand as your home ground and the pitch plays like a Basin Reserve morning: the ball seams and swings more, bounces higher, and gets to the bat quicker. The game stands a slip for you because the edges go there. Batters who time it get full value; batters who push at it feed the cordon. It is a bowler's deck, and a good one to learn to bat properly on.
The home ground you choose decides the surface. New Zealand 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 Basin Reserve has to think again at the MCG or at Galle.
Super Smash cricket game? Here is the honest answer
People in New Zealand search for “super smash cricket game” a lot, so to be clear: Howzat Live has no licence from the Super Smash 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 New Zealand’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 New Zealand — 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 New Zealand players are online
New Zealand evenings are afternoons in India and mornings in the UK, so there are people in the lobby at both ends of your day. 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 New Zealand
- Create a free account — a username, a password and New Zealand as your country.
- Build your XI in New Zealand’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 New Zealand players ask
Can I play as New Zealand in this cricket game?
Yes. Choose the black kit, name your own eleven, and set New Zealand as your home ground so the pitch seams and bounces the way Wellington and Christchurch do.
Is this a Super Smash cricket game?
No. Howzat Live has no Super Smash licence and no team names. It is a free 3D cricket game where you build your own side in New Zealand's kit and play live against real people, or the computer, in short matches or a full Test.
Can I play this cricket game on a laptop or Mac in New Zealand?
Yes. It runs in Safari, Chrome, Edge or Firefox on Mac or Windows with nothing to install, and in a phone browser held sideways.
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.