
The mechanics of the game are pretty simple. It’s awesome to see Google highlight an event far too many people probably didn’t know was going on. In the Google Doodle Cricket game, you will have a chance to play a cricket match with cute animals. Host nation England is left standing, along with Australia, India, and South Africa - all of whom are vying to play in the final on July 23. The Women’s World Cup has been wonderful so far, and now that we’re in the business end, it’s only going to get better.

If you get out for zero, you turn into a duck, which is the term in cricket for getting out in a scoreless inning.

It’s a simple game where you click to score as many runs as possible, with the bowling getting progressively faster after you hit milestones every 50 runs. To accompany the event, there’s a cricket holding a bat, and even better - when you click it, you get to play an adorable cricket game in which you as a cricket try to score as many runs as possible against a team of snails. The Google Doodle for Monday, July 17 highlights the start of the Women’s Cricket World Cup, which advances into the knockout rounds beginning on Tuesday when England plays South Africa:
