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The cricket season might be over, but would-be Bothams needn't worry. Bug-Byte has stepped into the breach. Or has attempted to.

OK, Cricket is recognisably cricket. Just. There are two wickets, a bowler, two batsmen, a wicket keeper, and some fielders. There's a ball, a remarkably spongy one it's true, but a ball nevertheless. The bowler bowls, the batsman bats, the ball does what cricket balls do, albeit in slow motion, and the scoreboard displays the score. So far, so good.

But the quality of the graphics...! It's Bug-Byte Tennis all over again. Blocky people, crude and sluggish movement, peculiar perspectives, very little skill or satisfaction involved. Certainly no cricketing skill. I'm sure it's not easy to program something as graphically complex as this, but that's no excuse.

It's not the John Player League and that's a fact. But I liked the music, and that's something you don't get at Lord's.