--- description: Google Doodle marks the start of the International Cricket Council's Champions Trophy 2017 with an interactive game title: Play Google Doodle's New Interactive Cricket Game image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf76ad3e1e135fc17/6988cfb4656a3f2a7ebd03e4/screen-shot-2017-06-01-at-10-55-19-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Google Doodle Celebrates the Start of this Year's International Cricket Council Champions Trophy by [Kevin Lui](/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2017 5:04 AM CUT  This June 1, 2017 Google Doodle marks the start of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 cricket tournament. This June 1, 2017 Google Doodle marks the start of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 cricket tournament.Google by [Kevin Lui](/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2017 5:04 AM CUT The first match of the International Cricket Council’s ICC Champions Trophy 2017 will be played Thursday in London, and Google Doodle is marking the occasion with [an interactive game](https://www.google.com/doodles/icc-champions-trophy-2017-begins "undefined") — in which cartoon crickets (what else?) compete for glory. 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/ "undefined") in emerging countries — a few of which, like [India](http://time.com/4060801/india-bcci-shashank-manohar-cricket/ "undefined") 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"}}]}] ```