HTML Hand Cricket Game Primer Tutorial
In Australia, here, we live in a country where a lot of people are keen on cricket, as a summer sport. There are three main public forms of the game …
- Test cricket played over up to 5 days (or International or State or Country or Grade cricket played over 2 to 4 days) with up to 2 innings for each side
- Limited Overs cricket with 50 overs per side over about half a day
- Twenty Over cricket over several hours
… but when some of us (cough, cough) were young, only the first form existed, and we would listen to crackly radios and the commentators over in England, during a battle for The Ashes Test Series, would simulate “ball on willow” by tapping their pencils …
… (I presumed) on the table in front of them, as they provided very vivid, imaginative and entertaining commentary, not just on cricket, but on history, seagulls, statistics galore, architecture and about the characters of the game (invented by the English).
That pencil, especially the old HB varieties we used at school had other uses … they were nicely bevelled into 6 sides that could be used as a random “wheel of fortune” of 6 choices (ie. you could use a die as an alternative) …
Chisel into the pencil what you’ve invented as your six cricket event outcomes and you’ve got a great “table” game for one, or more. Today, we hope you have two co-operative people around to represent the two teams that are going to play “Hand Cricket” (in the mode of Test Cricket).
We default the teams to England versus Australia with recent line-ups, but you can change this before the toss, which happens when you click on the “Vs” link.
The pencil roll is simulated by a dropdown choice, so please, no cheating about seeing what the other player chose, and then, all being well, we’ve used the great game strategy advice from this useful link (thanks).
Here is a live run.
Here is a slideshow.
Here is the HTML source code you could call hand_cricket.html (and we used this useful link for advice on a beep sound for non-mobile platforms … thanks).
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