Google Doodle Celebrates the ICC Champions Trophy With a Game
Tuesday's Google Doodle celebrates this year's ICC Champions Trophy with a miniature interactive game. A click on the artwork transports users to a game on London's Oval cricket grounds, in which the batsmen are crickets and the fielders are snails. The rules are simple tap or click to swing the bat in order to hit the ball across the field. Missing a shot risks the bail  two small wooden sticks that balance on stumps called the wicket  being knocked off. The Google Doodle game was initially rolled out in eight countries back on June 1 to celebrate the start of the cricket tournament, but today's roll-out is specifically available in the U.S. Google kept the game's file size small to accommodate players on slower mobile networks. "We kept the file size fly-sized, and the result is our smallest interactive Doodle ever  even snail networks can load it in seconds." Google writes. The 2017 ICC Champions Trophy is being hosted by England and Wales. The cricket tournament began on June 1 and will feature the world's top eight teams, including Bangladesh, England, India and South Africa, before the June 18 final. The tournament goes into its semi-finals on June 13. , ,