Cricket 96 is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 game for the MS-DOS

MS-DOS

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 PCs that was released in 1995. The sequel

Sequel

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 to Super International Cricket

Super International Cricket

Super International Cricket is a cricket game for the Super Nintendo that was released in Australia, Europe and Pakistan in 1994.-Summary:...

on the SNES

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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, it was developed by Melbourne House (as Beam Software) and published by EA Sports

EA Sports

EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John...

. It was released as Ian Botham's International Cricket 96 in Europe.

Despite featuring improved graphics, like its predecessors the game continued to forgo official team and player licensing, although many of the in-game players had recognisable real-life counterparts.

Melbourne House followed Cricket 96 with one sequel, Cricket 97

Cricket 97

Cricket 97 is a cricket game for PCs that was released in 1997. The sequel to Cricket 96, it was developed by Melbourne House and published by EA Sports...

, the following year.