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Simply click on the Doodle to start the game, in which a cartoon cricket stands ready to bat at the player’s command. As part of Google’s ongoing effort to make services [friendlier for slower network speeds](http://fortune.com/2017/04/05/youtube-go-india-app-mobile-connectivity/) in emerging countries — a few of which, like [India](http://time.com/4060801/india-bcci-shashank-manohar-cricket/) and Pakistan, are home to huge numbers of cricket fans — the company has made sure the game doesn’t take up too much data or bandwidth. “We kept the file size fly-sized, and the result is our smallest interactive Doodle ever,” Google said. “Even snail networks can load it in seconds.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4800644/google-doodle-icc-champions-trophy-cricket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4800644/google-doodle-icc-champions-trophy-cricket/"},"headline":"Google Doodle Celebrates the Start of this Year's International Cricket Council Champions Trophy","datePublished":"2017-06-01T05:04:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:04.604Z","description":"Google Doodle made an interactive game for cricket fans to mark the start of the tournament","url":"https://time.com/4800644/google-doodle-icc-champions-trophy-cricket/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google Doodle","Cricket","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf76ad3e1e135fc17/6988cfb4656a3f2a7ebd03e4/screen-shot-2017-06-01-at-10-55-19-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf76ad3e1e135fc17/6988cfb4656a3f2a7ebd03e4/screen-shot-2017-06-01-at-10-55-19-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"google-doodle-cricket-icc-champions-trophy-2017","caption":"Google Doodle Marks the Beginning of Cricket's ICC Champions Trophy 2017","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4800644/google-doodle-icc-champions-trophy-cricket/","name":"Google Doodle Celebrates the Start of this Year's International Cricket Council Champions Trophy"}}]}] ```