Brian Lara Cricket 99 PC on WinXP
How to run Brian Lara Cricket 99 on a computer running Windows XP?
Yes, its a really old game now, Codemasters’ Brian Lara Cricket 99 but its still fun. And, given the state of affairs as far as Cricket video games are concerned, its still cool enough to give the latest cricket games from EA Sports and Codemasters a run for their money, if you leave aside the graphics for the moment. Then again, unlike these latest avatars, it can play on any PC purchased in the last 3-4 years.
Trouble is, it won’t run on Windows XP. The workaround, use modified executables. I’ve no idea how these freak executables came into being. I found them on a forum a ages ago (was thought to be an inside leak or something at that time). Be that as may. These files can be downloaded from my ESnips folder.
Theywork with original game CD, backup CD as also an image loaded on virtual drives like Daemon Tools. Don’t ask for a NoCD since I neither have any crack nor the knowledge to make one.
Download and extract the files in BLC directory to replace your original exe files. The three different exe were meant for different graphics hardware (as the name suggests, d3dtnt seems to be for nvidia TNT based video cards). Anyways, D3D high should work with newer video cards or else try all the three.
Also, you can download a set of Frequently Asked Questions for Brian Lara Cricket 99 PC, including hints, tips, troubleshooting, cheats etc…something I had written way back. Brian Lara Cricket 99 PC FAQ
Act of God 
March 18, 2007 at 8:04 pm
tx dude
April 8, 2007 at 7:51 am
Bless you man.. was thinking that the backup I had made of that install was going to go wasted..
Apparently BLC-2005 was good.. never got to play. EA just never gets it right when it comes to cricket. They seem to think cricket is played by either blasting the ball around the park, or getting out. Kinda sucks, if you can’t use any other kind of strategy..
December 12, 2007 at 2:47 pm
hey, the game works fine till the toss, but after that, the umpires just keep folding and unfolding their hands, the bloody game doesnt advance…any ideas why??
December 15, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Unfortunately doesn’t seem to work for Shane Warne Cricket, which is otherwise identical.
January 14, 2008 at 12:28 pm
please tell me where can i find brainlara cricket 99 to download
May 24, 2008 at 9:06 pm
i want this game i will be thankfull to yahoo
March 15, 2009 at 1:58 pm
i like very vrey cricket 99
July 3, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Hey guys visit this link for Brian Lara Cricket 99 Second Edition 2008 .. It is the game uploaded with updated patches for Windows XP platform.
Check out this link for more information http://ourforums.co.in/vibs/brianlara
August 4, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Great stuff works a dream and im using windows vista, all ive done is download all 3 .zip files and replace them like it said then bingo all loads, the first video advertising codemasters does not work however the game works great many thinks
August 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm
it is quitting on serious sound error? what to do?
December 7, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Download and read the FAQ from the post. It has the solution for the problems of game not progressing after coin toss aka ‘umpires crossing and re-crossing legs’.
January 12, 2010 at 12:58 pm
hi dude,gr88888888888888888,
that was ma dream,u made it comes true, i m really really grateful to you,thx buddy, and plz help and tell us more,thx again.usman
January 28, 2010 at 1:14 pm
he game works fine till the toss,umpires just keep folding and unfolding their hands,and nothing.what i do?
January 31, 2010 at 12:07 am
Answered before…its a cleared issue. Download and try to read the FAQ from this very post.
April 27, 2010 at 3:37 pm
hi
i have downloaded blc99 and installed successfully with your instructions,
loaded xp patch also
but when i try to play its saying “COULD NOT FIND BRIAN LARA CRICKET CD!”
what to do now ??
plz tell me
May 1, 2010 at 8:29 pm
^^ @ kartik, I don’t know which patch you are referring to, but in case you are using the d3dhigh/d3dlow executables from this page, then remember that the won’t work without a cd. They will work with a backup cd, i.e. an ordinary disc burnt with the image of the game. But they won’t work in in the absence of any cd at all.
July 1, 2010 at 3:52 pm
@hey man can u please tell me which stuffs should be burn in cd…plzzzzz
July 16, 2010 at 7:14 pm
while opening brain lara cricket there is waring—your clock speed is approximately -2093MHz.this is below the minimum specification of 200MHz.
July 16, 2010 at 7:14 pm
while opening brain lara cricket there is waring—your clock speed is approximately -2093MHz.this is below the minimum specification of 200MHz.
August 9, 2010 at 8:23 am
@vaibhav.. Buddy Im getting the same error. Plz let me know if u find any solution
January 19, 2011 at 10:34 am
am running win 98 using vmware in win xp in order to play the brian lara 99 bt iam getting the following errors
1)a required .dll file,glide2x.dll ,was not found
after clickng ok
2)error intialsing sound card reboot windows 95/98 and try again
after that iam not gettting any sound l
3)could not open spool file:SPOOL\WAFFLE\30.WAV if using CD please insert
then onwards it is not working….
plz help me frnds………………am eagrly waiting for u r help……………
February 25, 2011 at 10:34 pm
@ Praveen
Why don;t u download the .dll files? might help;…….probably
April 18, 2011 at 12:12 am
dude i love you man i was looking for this game for 10 years extremely thanks .iam very thankfull to you
April 18, 2011 at 12:15 am
its running perfectlty
April 18, 2011 at 12:17 am
its running in windows 7 perfectly dudes
April 18, 2011 at 12:18 am
hello friends first download brain lara cricket 99 from torrent or google and then after sinstallation download these 3 files and place it in your blc 99 destination directory
April 18, 2011 at 12:19 am
you are really a god man
August 13, 2011 at 9:18 am
It’s asking for cd. i don;t have any other solution
October 30, 2011 at 11:00 pm
where is the link to download blc 99 ?? ?
November 12, 2011 at 12:46 pm
My processor speed is 1500 and t wants 200 speed so what i can do reply
December 8, 2011 at 1:44 am
You can download BLC 99 SE from my blog – http://umairpakistan.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-brian-lara-cricket-99-re-release.html
And i am not able to download these 3 files, can you upload them in anywhere else please…
December 31, 2011 at 2:45 pm
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February 10, 2012 at 3:59 pm
My processor speed is 1500 and t wants 200 speed so what i can do reply
February 10, 2012 at 4:27 pm
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March 15, 2012 at 4:57 pm
I want this game
how 2 download in my pc
June 24, 2012 at 7:22 pm
it wasn’t work fool
July 19, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Thanks fnd.
June 20, 2013 at 1:38 am
Hi Vibhav
I installed the game on my win7 laptop i5 64 bit, Do i need any specific dll for video need to be install ? also the above link for esnips doesn’t work.
December 7, 2019 at 1:14 am
excellent points altogether, you just received a logo new reader.
What might you suggest about your put up that you made some days ago?
Any sure?