Cricket fever takes over Google

It looks like cricket fever has taken over Google, as the search engine is celebrating the start of the ICC Champions Trophy today [Thursday] with one of its doodles.

Instead of transporting you to articles in its search about the subject, however, the artwork is actually a (highly addictive) game.

This Doodle is a quite simple cricket game: all you have to do is tap or click to swing the bat and watch as you either smack the ball around the field or see the bails knocked off.

The batsman is a cricket and the fielders are snails - a reference to Google's promise that the game will work on even the slowest of networks.

It is pertinent to mention here that, the hosts, England will face Bangladesh in the opening game of the tournament today at the Oval.