Ea Sports Cricket 2007 - Only By The Rain -
One user, CricketGuru2007 , famously wrote: “I simulated 47 overs of a tense Ashes finale. Then came the rain. I made tea. I ate dinner. I slept. Woke up. Still raining. My PlayStation 2 was warm. My soul was cold. EA Sports… it’s not in the game. It’s in the rain.” The phrase “Only By THE RAIN” became a meme. It was shorthand for any match that ended not by victory or defeat, but by the game’s own meteorological madness. Fans edited Wikipedia pages. Someone made a short film. A metal band in Sheffield wrote a song called Duckworth-Lewis of the Damned . EA never officially patched the glitch. By 2008, the company had lost the official cricket license, and the series died. But Cricket 2007 lived on—not as a good game, but as a ritual .
Just don’t forget your umbrella.
How a flawed, unfinished game became a cult legend—thanks to one freakish weather glitch EA Sports CRICKET 2007 - Only By THE RAIN
But here’s the kicker: The game didn’t crash. It simply waited . Forever. “Only By THE RAIN” Frustrated players began sharing their stories on forums like PlanetCricket.net. Someone discovered the trigger: rain delays had a random chance of entering an infinite loop if the match was in its final innings and the target was within 50 runs. The game’s logic couldn’t decide whether to call off the match or resume play—so it froze in existential indecision. One user, CricketGuru2007 , famously wrote: “I simulated
Somewhere, on an old hard drive in Mumbai, there’s still a save file from 2007. A Test match. India vs Australia. 4 runs needed. 2 wickets left. And rain that has now been falling for seventeen years. I ate dinner
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.
The players are still waiting. The umpires never signal. The floodlights burn eternal.
