Today's Doodle was originally posted to homepages in the U.K., India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Cuba, and Guyana. 'Stay and play at home with today's featured throwback: Our 2017 Doodle game celebrating Cricket!' In light of this, we're launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Googleīut today, Google captioned the cricket Doodle: 'As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home.

Stay and play at home with popular Google Doodle games. 'Whether you're enjoying the tournament at a snail's pace or bowling faster than the beat of a hummingbird's wings, here's hoping you hit it out of the park this summer!' We kept the file size fly-sized, and the result is our smallest interactive Doodle ever-even snail networks can load it in seconds. When the Doodle was originally posted, Google wrote: 'We know that cricket is loved worldwide, so we wanted to make sure our Doodle works for everyone, including those on slower mobile networks. The tournament has since been replaced by the ICC World Test Championship, which had its inaugural edition in August 2019.

The winner was Pakistan, with India as the runner-up. The 2017 ICC Champions Trophy was hosted in England and Wales. Users play as crickets in a game of cricket against a team of snails as they try to score as many runs as possible, while a crowd of bugs cheers. The second in the ongoing Google Doodle Games series is a throwback to a celebration of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, with an interactive cricket Doodle.

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