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Why Power Play Cricket is the Best Table Top Cricket Game
For years, table top cricket fans have been forced to choose between classic games with fundamental flaws. If you’re searching for the best table top cricket game that combines authentic batting, realistic bowling, and modern innovation, your search ends here. Power Play Cricket wasn’t designed to just be another game; it was built to fix what’s broken and elevate the genre. Here’s why it stands alone as the ultimate test of skill.
1. Directional Batting: The 80-Degree Revolution
Other claimants to being the best table top cricket game have a critical flaw: a batter that can only swing straight. This makes leg-side shots virtually impossible, breaking the immersion of the sport.
Power Play Cricket shatters this limitation. Our batsman allows for approximately 20 degrees of angled movement in both directions. When you factor in the deflection from the ball, this creates a staggering 80-degree playing arc for scoring shots. Finally, you can confidently work the ball through the leg side, just like the pros. This isn’t an upgrade; it’s a revolution.
2. Realistic Swing Bowling
Many praise rivals like Test Match Cricket for their spring-loaded bowler that “throws” the ball. However, this complex mechanism is a known point of conjecture; often the ball is very difficult to hit.
We chose a more reliable, yet equally skillful path. Power Play Cricket uses a specially sourced ball that isn’t perfectly round. This allows it to swing and seam off the pitch, mimicking real fast bowling. The key? It doesn’t happen every time. Just like in real cricket, you have to read the ball out of the hand, mastering its movement to succeed. It’s a pure, reliable skill contest between bat and ball.
3. The Power Play: Strategy, Balance, and Fun
This is our namesake and our game-changer. We include a lighter ‘Power Play Ball’ designed for explosive batting.
- Easier to Hit: Travels further, encouraging big shots.
- Strategic Depth: Enforce fielding restrictions to create genuine powerplay phases.
- Balance for All Skills: Perfect for levelling the playing field. Experts can face the swing ball, while any newcomers use the power play ball to stay competitive. You create the rules.
4. Fences & Durability: No More Floor chasing
Unlike Test Match Cricket, where the ball constantly flies off the table, Power Play Cricket features integrated fences. This keeps the action flowing and the balls off the floor, combining the best containment of World Cup Cricket with our advanced gameplay.
5. The Digital Advantage: A Free Companion App
Power Play Cricket is the first and only game to offer a free companion app. Track scores, player stats, match history, and even see a live “Power Play in Force” indicator. This seamless integration removes admin and lets you focus on the game.
The app keeps a record of your stats so you can see who really is the best table top cricket gamer you know!
6. Unmatched UK-Based Customer Support
Games break. It’s a fact. Unlike other manufacturers, Lugstars Gaming makes every component in-house in the UK. If a part fails, you can get a replacement directly from us, ensuring your game lasts a lifetime. No other table top cricket game offers this peace of mind.
Best Table Top Cricket Game: There is No Comparison
When you compare the features, the choice is clear:
Feature Power Play Cricket Test Match Cricket World Cup Cricket Batting Arc 80° 0° 0° Ball Movement Realistic Swing “Thrown” Ball Basic Roll Containment Fences Rope Fences Digital Support Free Companion App None None Reliability Simple & Robust Prone to Failure Robust Support UK-Based Parts Limited Limited Ready to experience the best table top cricket game? Explore Power Play Cricket in our shop and see what truly immersive table top cricket feels like.
Improve Your Game With Our New Power Play Cricket Companion App
Work continues on our Power Play Cricket Companion App, so you can keep track of the score! Look back on your entire game history, who really is the best across all formats of the game?
Batting Stats – Look back on your game history vs all your friends and family – Runs, Strike Rate, Average, Highest Score.
Match Analytics – Are you ahead of the run rate? Have you got wickets in hand? Lost a few wickets in a short space of time? Win Predictor monitors the match as it progresses and estimates who will win!
It will have a feature to automatically use the Power Play Rules and display when it is in effect so you can easily see when the Power Play is in force, and ball/fielding restrictions apply across all formats of the game.
Power Play Cricket aims to bring a classic table top cricket game into the modern era!
Issues: Test Match Format has two innings per team (usually). Incorporating this into the app has been causing problems with how the innings progresses, so we have decided to leave this format out for now and will look to introduce this format at a later stage.
Power Play Cricket Companion App – Sneak Preview
Our focus will be to get the App working on Android first. When we are confident we have ironed out all the bugs and the App is working well, we will look to roll it out on Apple iOS so that all customers can enjoy the benefits of using it.
Power Play Cricket Companion App