Cricket 2005 cover art

Cricket 2005

The game was released in three different region-based covers. Adam Gilchrist appeared on the Australian cover, Daniel Vettori on the New Zealand cover and Andrew Flintoff on the English cover. It was the last…

30 1 July 2005

Cricket 2005 is a sport developed by HB Studios, released 1 July 2005 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Cricket 2005 is

Cricket 2005 is a sport game developed by HB Studios and released in 2005. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game was released in three different region-based covers. Adam Gilchrist appeared on the Australian cover, Daniel Vettori on the New Zealand cover and Andrew Flintoff on the English cover. It was the last game to have all real player names.
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Cricket 2005 holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 37 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Cricket 2005 launched on 1 July 2005, within three weeks of Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari and Ys: The Oath in Felghana. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari, Ys: The Oath in Felghana.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

Cricket 2005 — frequently asked questions

When did Cricket 2005 come out?
Cricket 2005 was released on 1 July 2005 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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