Didn't find EA Cricket 97 - Ashes version a very good game to play. Still have the CD at home though.
The first cricket game I played was Allan Border/Graham Gooch cricket - a dos based cricket game... still remember playing the game against my friends
After that came the ground breaking, earth shattering Brian Lara game by codemasters on Sega Mega Drive. Have to say this has been my favorite cricket game ever
After this game, it's been a series of disappointments with neither Codemasters or EA managing to come up with a decent game. Hopefully, we will have a great cricket game in the near future once EA removes existing bugs from Cricket 2K5.