Brian Lara Cricket was released on the PC in 1994 for DOS and in 1995 for Sega Mega Drive and Amiga by Codemasters.

The Mega Drive version spent 10 weeks at number 1 in the UK games charts during the summer of 1995.

The game is a rebranded version of Graham Gooch World Class Cricket.

There are three main types of bowling in the game fast, spin and swing.

Brian Lara Cricket has pseudo-3D graphics which appears to make the perspective change when playing the game.