Ea Sports Cricket 2007 - Only By The Rain Today

The players are still waiting. The umpires never signal. The floodlights burn eternal.

But the real talking point wasn’t gameplay. It was the weather. In EA Cricket 2007 , the developers included a dynamic weather system—cloud cover, humidity, and rain interruptions. On paper, it was innovative. In practice, it was apocalyptic. EA Sports CRICKET 2007 - Only By THE RAIN

How a flawed, unfinished game became a cult legend—thanks to one freakish weather glitch The players are still waiting

In the dusty archives of sports gaming history, some titles are remembered for their greatness ( FIFA 98 , NFL 2K5 ). Others are remembered for their catastrophic failure ( Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 ). And then there’s EA Sports Cricket 2007 —a game that wasn’t great, wasn’t truly broken, but was… haunted. But the real talking point wasn’t gameplay

No restart. No resumption. No menu. Just an infinite loop of stadium ambience—the distant hum of floodlights, the rustle of a wet outfield, and the ghostly sound of rain that never stopped. You could leave the console on for hours. Days, even. The rain would still fall. The players would never return.

Here’s what would happen: You’d be playing a Test match. Maybe you were 250/4, chasing 350. The sky would darken. The umpires would confer. Then the screen would flash: