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If you're not yet confident enough to take over from Bob Willis as England captain against the West Indies, then don't worry - you can still enjoy Cricket Captain.

Your first job is to choose a team either from the list of counties provided or one of your own.

Then you have to solve the problems of team selection, bowling and batting order. In this, you are helped by the files held on each player giving details of his ability.

Following these preliminaries the game itself is delightfully represented in 3D animation.

As the program warns, it can be very frustrating to see your side skittled out for a very low score, and that on novice level too!

Your turn to bowl is more interesting as you set the field and ring the bowling changes.

To play a complete season's fixtures in full would take quite a time, so there is a save game facility and if you wish you can "skip" a few overs and move forward in time. This last feature should be available for real life cricket!

Cricket Captain is a very amusing game and a fairly realistic simulation.

D.J.