New Online Pokie Celebrates Cricket World Cup

Added: January 30, 2015

Australia is a sporting nation and perhaps the favourite sport is cricket. In February Australia is hosting the Cricket World Cup. 16 nations are participating, but Australia is by far the favourite to lift the cup. So that players at Australian online casinos can celebrate the event, the leading software provider Microgaming is launching a new video pokie game Cricket Star. Cricket is a poorly represented sport in online pokies and hopefully for Australian online casino players Cricket Star will be the start of the change.

Cricket Star has everything that a pokie player and a cricket fan can desire. To start with it has the popular 243 ways to win Microgaming structure. The pokie machine has the usual wild and scatter symbols. But the wild symbols appear stacked on reels 3, 4 and 5 in the base game and the free spins feature. Cricket Star introduces an awesome feature titled Wild Wickets. This feature can trigger at random generating Wild Reels which lead to greater payouts. Three, four or five scatter symbols trigger 15, 20 or 25 free spins. The free spins cannot be retriggered. The Microgaming Rolling Reels feature awards multiple consecutive wins and comes with a Multiplier Trail leading up to 10 times.

The hard core online pokie player is more concerned with the betting parameters. Cricket Star offers four coin sizes, which are 0.01, 0.02, 0.05 and 0.10. You can bet up to 500 coins, which makes a maximum bet of 50 credits. The maximum payout is a whopping 105,000 credits.

Perhaps the best aspect of Cricket Star is its visual appeal. The symbols on the reels include cricketers in the colours of participating countries, including Australia. Other cricketing symbols include the umpire and the cricket ball. The win animations, whether it is the umpire declaring a batsman out, or the batsmen running between wickets, are so realistic that you feel as if you are watching a live game on HD television.

While waiting for this pokie game to go live, you can try your luck on the cricket themed Microgaming fruit machine Umpire Strikes Back. The slot machine has symbols like the 4 and 6 placards, pads, helmets, cricket bats and the umpire. The umpire offers the jackpot payout. Some of the symbols include cricket balls. If all three symbols on the payline have cricket balls then the fruit machine feature is triggered. The feature consists of Hi Lo games that award cash payouts, nudges and other benefits.