It was SOOOO BAD the game has been pulled from sale. Your husband (as a cricket fan) won’t thank you for giving him the worst cricket game ever. Have a look at this list:

Game Guru – 19 Nov 13 7 Best Cricket Games for PC - GameGuru For fans of the fine sport, we’ve prepared this list of the best cricket games for PC which contains great titles that you can jump into right now. All

I’m a rugby bloke myself (and gave up a long time ago trying to find a good rugby game), but i do remember the Brian Lara games were always well reviewed:

en.wikipedia.org Brian Lara Cricket (series) The Brian Lara Cricket series is a series of six cricket video games that are endorsed by the West Indian cricketer Brian Lara and published by Codemasters. As of 2007, there are six games in the Brian Lara Cricket series on eight video game systems, spanning thirteen years. Brian Lara Cricket is the first game in the series to be endorsed by Brian Lara. It was developed by Audiogenic and published by Codemasters in 1994 for DOS and then a year later in 1995 for the Sega Mega Drive and Commodor...

And if he is into the ‘management’ type of games the International Cricket Captain series looks interesting: