Brian Lara Cricket (series)
The Brian Lara Cricket series is a series of five games that are endorsed by the West Indian cricketer Brian Lara and published by Codemasters.
The Games
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History
In 1985, Michael McLean at Audiogenic, a subsidiary of Supersoft wrote Graham Gooch's Test Cricket for the C64 computer system. It was a success but the next cricket game from Audiogenic wasn't until 1993 when Graham Gooch World Class Cricket was created. It was a huge success and sold well. Audiogenic created the special edition version of World Class Cricket game of Brian Lara Cricket for the PC in 1994. In 1995 Audiogenic produced Brian Lara Cricket for the Sega Mega Drive for the company Codemasters. It was a huge success and spent 10 weeks at number one in the video games chart in the UK during the summer of 1995. Brian Lara Cricket '96 was released the following year in 1996 again for the company Codemasters, and again it got to number one in the charts in the summer. in 1997 much of the development team for Audiogenic were now employed by Codemasters and Brian Lara Cricket '99 was developed for the Playstation console which was released in 1998. In 2005 Codemasters released Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 for the Playstation 2 console, it was released on 21 July to coincide with the start of the 2005 Ashes series. It was another success gaining high ratings[1]. Off the back of this success, Codemasters has developed Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 to be released in March, 2007.