So, I was playing Little Master online and rather enjoying it. I noticed there was an iPhone version, but it cost 59p, and Touch Cricket – that I had been told was very similar – had a free Lite version.


And it is fairly similar, but more complicated. Your left thumb moves the batter and your right thumb moves the bat. Balls come in from the right and you have to hit them.

Easy enough conceptually, but incredibly difficult in practice. I tried and tried, but didn’t do very well at all. I think I managed over twenty runs in one amazing session, but most of the time I was getting caught or bowled without hitting a single ball. (And, yes, I read the help. This wasn’t a problem with the controls, just my own inability to judge where to put the bat and batter.)

Eventually the frustration got too much and I deleted it. Cricket’s rubbish, anyway. Harumph.