With the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup taking place in the United States and the Caribbean, Google is inviting us all to test our cricket skills. Your abilities as a cricketer could help your country win Google’s Mini Cup, and all you need to do is bat some balls away before they hit your wicket.

How to Play Google’s T20 World Cup-Themed Cricket Game

Google’s cricket-themed Mini Cup is available to play on your mobile device. All you need to do is search Google for “T20 World Cup,” (or other phrases connected to the contest) anda spinning cricket ball iconshould appear in the bottom-right-hand corner. Tap it, and the game will magically appear on top of the search results.

Pick a game to play in, and then pick your team from the two set to compete in that game, and you’ll join the fans of that team in an effort to rack up a good score. There’s no option to bowl in the game, with you batting against Google’s duck bowler. For those of you who are new to cricket, a duck is the term used when you’re bowled out without scoring; hence the choice of animal.

Likeother Google Easter eggs, Google has kept things simple. So, playing Google’s Mini Cup cricket game is as simple as tapping the screen to swing your bat at the right moment. The balls will keep getting bowled at you in quick succession until you miss one, allowing it to knock your stumps and bails out of the ground.

How to Rack Up a Good Score Playing Google’s Cricket Game

While it’s easy to play Google’s Mini Cup cricket game, it’s more difficult to rack up a high score. The balls are bowled in fairly quick succession, and there are several different styles on show, all of which need to be batted away for you to continue playing.

The balls you’ll face are:

The key to racking up a big score on Google’s Mini Cup cricket game is to learn how all the different balls move. Once you have experienced them all a few times, you’ll know what to expect when the duck launches one down the wicket at you.

Even then, you will get caught out occasionally. Not by a fielder, but by a ball that you happen to time badly and miss. Still, practice makes (almost) perfect, and it’s the only real way to do well.

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How Your Efforts Could Help Your Country Rank Higher

While Google’s Mini Cup cricket game is designed to be fun on an individual basis, your score is also added to the overall team/country score. So, not only can you view your total games played, total tournament points, and points for each game you have played, but you may also click onStandingsto view the overall standings by country.

At the time of writing, India is miles ahead of everyone else thanks to a big population, many of whom love cricket. Still, if you get behind your team, you could help them finish as runners-up.

We don’t yet know what will happen when all the games in the 2024 T20 World Cup are played. It could be that the Mini Cup cricket game becomes unavailable, or Google may award the game its own URL to keep the fun going. The final is being played on August 13, 2025, so we should find out after that.