Chai Cricket: Card Game Recreates Cricket Excitement

Chennai based former sports journalist Bagawati Prasad has launched a cricket card game, packing India’s favourite sport into a pack of cards. Called “Chai Cricket” it can be played even over a cup of tea.

The pack has sixty cards. Upto four people can play this game. It can be played as a solo game too. While every player would play with six cards, the rest of 36 cards would remain in the pool for players to pick.

Each player gets six turns alternatively to drop a card and pick from the pool or from those dropped by players. Each  picked card has a cricketing element that would take the game forward bringing in the cricket excitement. These include runs, no ball, wide, penalty runs and different forms of outs including leg byes. Bringing in more thrill, there is also a super strike that gets 10 or 12 runs. There are wide combinations as well like  wide plus 4 runs or a no ball plus 6 runs.