Updates Patch notes & new features
What has changed, newest first. Most of it comes from what players ask for. If something is missing, the feedback button on any game reaches us.
PATCH 8.0:Ads Are Here, and Kept Off Your Controls
CricArcade now shows ads to help keep every game free. Live match screens stay as they are unless there is empty space well away from the buttons.
- NEWAds now appear on guides, articles and archive pages, after a finished match, and in empty side space on wide screens. They move out of the way as soon as a screen needs that space.
- NEWUK, EU and Swiss visitors can accept or reject advertising cookies, and change their answer any time with Update Privacy Settings at the bottom of the page.
PATCH 7.9:Cricket Manager: Clean Squad Pool After a Job Change
Resign from one nation and take over another, and the new squad screen now shows only that nation's players.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: after resigning and joining another nation, players from your old side (such as South Africans in the India pool) no longer appear in the new squad pool.
PATCH 7.8:New Gold Achievement: Do or Die
Win the title after playing the Eliminator. In the whole history of the IPL only Sunrisers Hyderabad have done it, in 2016.
- NEWT20 Franchise Mode (IPL): the Do or Die achievement, Gold tier, unlocks when your team plays the Eliminator and still lifts the trophy, and pays out an Achievement Pack like every other achievement.
PATCH 7.7:Season Highlights and Match Highlights Stories
Your Dynasty season and every T20 match now end with a swipeable highlights story you can share, in the same look as The Chase.
- NEWDynasty (IPL and WPL): a season highlights story on the season screen. Tap through the key moments and share it as images or a video.
- NEWT20 matches: a match highlights story at full time, in place of the old summary beside the scorecard.
- BETTERThe match share card has a new dark, story-style design to match.
PATCH 7.6:Card Packs Below the Header, and Tidier Articles
The packs you earn in The Chase now sit inside the results page, and article pages get a cleaner back link and bulleted sources.
- FIXEDThe Chase: the card packs you earn used to appear above the CricArcade header. They now sit on the results page, under the story and buttons.
- BETTERArticles: the plain "Articles" link at the top is now a "← All articles" link in the same style as the guides.
- BETTERArticles: the sources at the bottom of every article are now a bulleted list.
PATCH 7.5:Cards Now Show the Player's Nation
Every card now says which country or franchise the player is from, with the flag.
- NEWCards: the role line now reads, for example, "Pakistan · Batter", with the national flag beside it. National cards from 33 teams carry a flag, including the West Indies and East Africa.
- NEWCards: in the vault and on pack reveals, the small card shows the flag at the right of the player's name.
PATCH 7.4:Cricket Manager: Five More Legends to Call Back
The Legends list in Cricket Manager now always includes five greats who were missing from it.
- NEWCricket Manager: Steve Waugh (Australia), Harbhajan Singh and Bishan Bedi (India), Shoaib Akhtar (Pakistan) and Glenn Turner (New Zealand) can now be called out of retirement. They are always on their nation's Legends list, alongside its ten highest-rated greats.
PATCH 7.3:One Card Vault for All of CricArcade
Cards are no longer just for The Follow On. Every format now has its own set, every mode pays into one vault, and each card has a new look: the match jersey, with the player's rating as the shirt number.
- NEWSix sets to collect at /cards: Test, ODI, T20I, IPL, BBL and WPL. Root's Test card and Root's ODI card are different cards.
- NEWNew card design. Rarity sets the background, the format sets the masthead, and three career figures on the front show what makes that player good in that format. Flip a card for the full record.
- NEWEarn cards in every mode you play: ODI Captain, Chase 380, T20 World Cup, IPL and WPL Dynasty, Squad Mode, Big Bash, Cricket Manager and both Versus modes. A win pays better odds, and a Player of the Match from your side can pay their own card.
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PATCH 7.2:IPL: Smarter Rival Franchises, and a Versus Draft Fix
Rival Dynasty franchises now build squads more like a real captain does, and a poor connection can no longer lock your picks in a Versus draft.
- BETTERDynasty: rival franchises now release bench-warmers, sliding and fringe players and spare overseas players, and hang on to young talent, instead of keeping almost everyone.
- BETTERDynasty: rival franchises bid with their whole squad in mind, so they stop loading up on batters and end up with a proper attack.
- FIXEDDynasty: real seasons from 2008 to 2026 no longer fill squads with made-up names when a franchise is short. Made-up youngsters now only replace retired stars.
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PATCH 7.1:The Chase: Your Run as a Highlights Story
Finish a Chase run and it now opens as a highlights story you can play through and share, with your full results one tap below.
- NEWThe Chase results now open on a playable, phone-shaped highlights story of your run. Share it to X or WhatsApp, or save it as an image, slides or a video.
- NEWSend a friend your run: the link opens a page showing what you did, with its own preview image, and invites them to try to beat it.
- BETTERThe results screen also shows your rank, a daily streak and a suggestion for your next game. The full results are still there, in a section you can open.
PATCH 7.0:India vs New Zealand 2026: All 29 Player Ratings
A new article rates all 29 players from India's 3-2 T20I series win in New Zealand, with the five results, the leading run-scorers and wicket-takers and a Team of the Series.
- NEWArticles: India vs New Zealand 2026, with every CricArcade player rating for all 29 players, Glenn Phillips' record 341 runs, the five results and our Team of the Series XI.
PATCH 6.9:Pakistan vs England vs Sri Lanka 2026: All 41 Player Ratings
A new article rates all 41 players from Pakistan's ODI tri-series win over Sri Lanka and England, with the seven results, the leading run-scorers and wicket-takers and a Team of the Series.
- NEWArticles: Pakistan vs England vs Sri Lanka 2026, with every CricArcade player rating for all 41 players, the Player of the Series, the seven results and our Team of the Series XI.
PATCH 6.8:South Africa vs Australia 2026: All 30 Player Ratings
A new article rates all 30 players from South Africa's 2-1 Test series win over Australia, with the three results, the leading run-scorers and wicket-takers and a Team of the Series.
- NEWArticles: South Africa vs Australia 2026, with every CricArcade player rating for all 30 players, the Player of the Series, the Test-by-Test results and our Team of the Series XI.
PATCH 6.7:New Homepage, Simpler Menus and a Better Higher or Lower
The homepage below the headline is rebuilt around every mode, the top bar is down to three menus, and Higher or Lower now shows how close each answer was and lets you move on at your own pace.
- BETTERHomepage: Cricket Manager leads, with six more ways to play underneath, then how a ball is bowled, what makes CricArcade different, the archive, the guides and a full FAQ.
- BETTERThe top bar is now three menus (Games, Almanac and Guides), a Discord and theme icon and a red Sign in. On a phone, every page uses the same full-screen menu.
- BETTERThe footer is rebuilt in blocks and is easier to tap on a phone.
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PATCH 6.6:T20 World Cup Career: Legends Only When You Ask
Players reported retired legends turning up in their squad without being added. Legends now join only when you pick them.
- FIXEDT20 World Cup career: when a player retires at the end of a season, his replacement now comes from the active players only. Retired legends such as Ross Taylor or Brendon McCullum no longer slip into your squad on their own.
- BETTERT20 World Cup career: the option to add retired legends to your squad is now off by default when you start a career. Tick it if you want them.
PATCH 6.5:Easier to Find Your Game, and Venue and Team Records
Every game mode is now one click from the menu, the guides sit open at the bottom of each game page, and ground and team pages lead with their records.
- NEWIPL 2026 Auction Simulator at /ipl/auction-simulator: one button takes you into a 2026 auction room. IPL Dynasty also opens on any season with ?season=, for example /ipl/dynasty?season=2026.
- NEWVenue pages open with a records table: highest and lowest totals, best individual score and bowling, most runs and wickets, and average first-innings total, for Tests and ODIs side by side.
- NEWTeam archive pages now show each side's five highest innings totals and five highest successful run chases above the match list, in both ODIs and Tests.
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PATCH 6.4:Manager Super Overs and Retirement Fixes
In Cricket Manager a tied ODI or T20I now goes to a Super Over you pick for, and another if it ends level, until one side leads.
- NEWCricket Manager: a tied ODI is no longer left as a tie. When you play it, you pick three batters and a bowler for the Super Over, and you pick again after every level round until there is a winner. T20Is already worked this way.
- BETTERCricket Manager: ties in group and bilateral ODIs now go to a Super Over too, not only in semi-finals and finals. Instant and Manage results settle it the same way.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: any player who had ever been injured never retired, because the old injury still counted against him at the turn of the season. Virat Kohli played on indefinitely while younger players such as Shubman Gill were asked to retire first. Everyone now retires on the same age curve, and the Squad screen no longer marks a once-injured player as out of the picture.
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PATCH 6.3:New Articles Section
Research and the long-form guides now live together in one Articles section, with series reviews, previews, history and analysis, starting with India Women vs Zimbabwe Women 2026 and the WPL 2027 auction results.
- NEWArticles: series reviews, previews, history and analysis in one place. The first new pieces are WPL 2027 Auction Results (all 25 buys and the five full squads) and India Women vs Zimbabwe Women 2026, with all 34 player ratings, the six results and a Team of the Tour.
- BETTERResearch is now part of Articles, and the WPL 2027 previews and the history pieces (Test eras, powerplays, the World Cup format and more) have moved there. Old links still work.
PATCH 6.2:Manager Rankings Tabs and Tournament Banners
Cricket Manager's Rankings screen now opens on the tournament you are in, and the hub and calendar say which stage of a World Cup or ICC event you have reached.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: during a World Cup or other ICC event, the hub could show "waiting on results" with no way to confirm the next series squad, so Continue stayed locked. The squad Confirm button now shows there too.
- BETTERCricket Manager: Rankings is rebuilt with tabs. It opens on the tournament that is on (stage tracker, every group, your matches with scorecards), then World rankings by format, the World Test Championship and all ICC events.
- BETTERCricket Manager: the hub names the tournament and its stage (group stage, Super Six, semi-final, final) on the next-match card and while you wait for other teams to finish.
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PATCH 6.1:Cricket Manager on Phones
Patch 6.0 broke two Cricket Manager screens on phones. Both read properly again.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: the Squads screen on a phone was three columns wide, so the page ran off the right edge and the squad list was cut off. It is one column again, with the dossier opening as a sheet.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: the match header on a phone cut off the ground, date and series (“Thu...”, “India tour ...”). They now stack as three labelled rows and wrap in full.
PATCH 6.0:Legends, Dashboard Sims and Rebuilt Manager Screens
Cricket Manager lets you call back retired greats, sim matches from the dashboard, browse your whole career's results, and plays on rebuilt Squads, match and Continue screens, with a round of calendar, development and offer fixes underneath.
- BETTERCricket Manager: the Squads screen is rebuilt on one system. Every pane has a title bar, formats and filters are matching segmented controls, captain and vice-captain sit side by side, and Selectors’ pick and Legends are twin buttons, so it no longer reads as filters thrown around the page. The player dossier is rebuilt too: a rating badge, a stats strip, and his career as one Test / ODI / T20I table with the format you are picking highlighted, then development, training, condition and contract as matching sections. Captain and vice-captain boxes no longer cut off the names. Every column of the pool sorts when you click its header, and again to reverse it (no more sort dropdown); the squad list on the left drops the form chips the pool already shows; Auto-pick and Legends moved into the squad title bar, All fmts is now Overall, and Pot is shown on the same scale as Overall so a young player no longer looks 6 points better than his Overall says. Form shows runs and wickets as separate figures (14 · 2w), so all-rounders no longer look like bowlers.
- NEWCricket Manager: Legends. On the Squads screen, ★ Legends lets you call one of your nation’s ten greatest retired players back into your squads for one to three seasons. All-time greats from the ODI and Test archives are there (Tendulkar, Kapil Dev and Gavaskar for India; Bradman, Warne and McGrath for Australia), as are recent retirees like Dhoni and Ashwin. Archive legends return in their prime for Tests and ODIs, recent ones a little rusty and ageing as they would. One legend at a time, retired for good when the term ends, and free for now.
- FIXEDIPL Dynasty: Kane Williamson is rated 91 in 2018 (he was 85).
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PATCH 5.9:WPL Dynasty
The Women's Premier League joins CricArcade: run any of the five franchises from any season since 2023, and keep the dynasty going after the real seasons run out.
- NEWWPL Dynasty at /wpl: pick a season from 2023 to 2026 and a franchise, then bid at the live auction against four AI war rooms or inherit the real squad. Every real WPL auction lot, purse and squad rule is in.
- NEWWPL Quick Match at /wpl/play: pick any real WPL squad from 2023 to 2026 and an opponent, even from another season, choose your XI and captain one match. No auction, nothing to save.
- NEWMatches are played by an engine tuned to women's T20 cricket, measured against every WPL match so far: scoring, wickets, the shape of an innings and how often chases come off.
- + 3 more changes
PATCH 5.8:Selectors Pick Specialists, Tails Bat in Order
Cricket Manager selectors stop picking Test specialists for T20Is and T20 hitters for Tests, and in every live T20 match the AI no longer sends its best bowler in ahead of better tail batters.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: a player with no record in a format was rated from his other formats and picked as if that were a real record, so Nathan Lyon and Marnus Labuschagne played T20Is, Tim David and Adam Zampa played Tests and Arshdeep Singh opened the bowling in India's Test side. Selectors now strongly prefer players with a real record in the format, for every nation and for your default squads. A side short of specialists can still call on one.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: lopsided Tests (an 877-run win, a side bowled out for 54) mostly came from those weakened XIs, with T20 batters in the top order.
- FIXEDLive T20 matches (Cricket Manager, T20 World Cup, IPL Dynasty, WPL): once only bowlers were left, the AI captain sent in the best bowler next, so Zampa batted 7 and Cummins 8 while Dwarshuis did not bat. The tail now comes in the order the XI was picked.
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PATCH 5.7:Cricket Manager, Wicketkeepers Required
Every XI now has a wicketkeeper when its nation has one to pick, and a keeperless XI is always flagged with its cost before you play.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: the selectors' XI, yours and every other nation's, sometimes had no wicketkeeper at all, most often in T20Is. If the selectors' side has no keeper, the best keeper now comes in for the weakest non-bowler.
- BETTERCricket Manager: whenever your XI has no wicketkeeper, whatever the reason (none in the squad, he is injured, you left him out), the match screen says so in red and asks you to confirm before Play, Manage or Instant Result. A side without a keeper concedes more extras, puts down more chances behind the stumps, misses its stumpings and fields worse. The squad screen warns when there is no fit keeper. Nothing is ever blocked.
PATCH 5.6:Cricket Manager, Squad Limits Hold
Squads stay at their cap whenever a call-up pop-up adds a player, and ICC tournaments have their own 15-man squad.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: call-ups from the domestic season, youngsters for a dead rubber and players coming out of retirement used to push a squad past 18. If the squad is full, the weakest spare player now makes way, and the result says who.
- NEWCricket Manager: ICC tournaments (T20 and ODI World Cups, the Champions Trophy, the World Test Championship final and the Olympics) now have their own 15-man squad. When the draw puts you in, the selectors name 15 from your regular squad and the board tells you who is out. You can change the 15 on the squad screen, and only those players can play in the tournament. Your regular squad of up to 18 is untouched and carries on afterwards.
PATCH 5.5:Cricket Manager, Targeted Training
Spare staff budget now has a use after your backroom is built: put a player on a training programme for batting, bowling, fielding or fitness.
- NEWCricket Manager: pick a player in the squad screen and set his training. Batting and bowling improve him in the formats he plays (a batter gains most from batting, a bowler from bowling), fielding adds a little everywhere, and fitness means fewer injuries and a slower decline with age. A few programmes can run at once, they are paid for from your staff budget, and the matching coach decides how well each one works.
PATCH 5.4:Cricket Manager, Ratings Follow Performance
Players used to develop by age alone, so a batter piling up runs could stay on the same rating for ever. Growth now depends on age, potential, current rating and how he actually played.
- NEWCricket Manager: at the turn of each season every player is judged on how he actually played, in each format separately. Runs and wickets are weighed against the pitches and the opposition he faced, and big matches count for more than ordinary ones. A strong season lifts his rating in that format only and a poor one lowers it: a great T20 season does nothing for his Test rating. A few innings say little, so small samples barely count.
- BETTERCricket Manager: potential is no longer a hard ceiling. Sustained form can keep lifting a player past it, though it gets harder the further past it he goes.
- BETTERCricket Manager: age, potential and current rating still shape growth. A young player with plenty of room develops faster, one near his ceiling slows, the very best are harder to lift, and a star declines a little less sharply with age.
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PATCH 5.3:Cricket Manager, Tournament Table on the Home Screen
While an ICC or Asia Cup tournament is on, its points table is on your home screen, so you no longer have to dig through Rankings and Events.
- NEWCricket Manager: during a tournament the home screen shows your group's points table (and the second-stage table once you are in it), the semi-finals and the final as they are set, and a button to every group.
PATCH 5.2:Cricket Manager, Nobody Vanishes From Your Squad
Injured and retired players now stay visible on the squad screen, and every player has a development panel with batting, bowling and leadership for each format.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: an injured player no longer drops off the squad screen. He stays in his squad, marked with when he is back.
- NEWCricket Manager: a 'Left your squad' list on the squad screen shows who retired from the format, and when, so you no longer have to find out from the inbox.
- NEWCricket Manager: the player dossier has a Development panel: batting, bowling and leadership in Tests, ODIs and T20Is, how each has moved since he joined your pool, and a rating-by-season line. It is recorded every 1 October.
PATCH 5.1:Cricket Manager, True Career Totals
A player's career in the squad screens is now his real record before the game plus every match he plays in your career, for every stat, whichever team you manage.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: after taking a new job, players showed their real career matches but only a fraction of their runs and wickets (Gill on 250 ODIs and 3,000 runs). The squad screens now show the full running total, so it agrees with milestone alerts such as 'closes in on 10,000 runs'.
- NEWCricket Manager: the player dossier shows batting average, highest score, hundreds, fifties, bowling average and five-wicket hauls for Tests, ODIs and T20Is. Career totals now run to the day the game starts (5 October 2026), so recent big scores such as Gill's 223 against the West Indies are in. Older careers and Associate players, whose early matches the ball-by-ball archive lacks, are completed from a full-career database. They start from the real career and grow with every match: a player on 9,000 ODI runs who scores 2,000 more shows 11,000, and his average moves with it.
PATCH 5.0:Cricket Manager, the Real ICC Calendar to 2031
Every ICC event on the published schedule from 2027 to 2031 is now in Cricket Manager, with the real dates and hosts, including cricket at the LA28 Olympics.
- NEWCricket Manager: men's T20 at the LA28 Olympics, 22 to 29 July 2028 in Los Angeles. Six teams, USA as hosts plus the five best T20I sides, two groups of three, semi-finals and a final for gold.
- BETTERCricket Manager: the 2027 ODI World Cup now starts on 2 October, the 2028 T20 World Cup runs 12 October to 12 November, and the 2029 World Test Championship final is 8 to 12 June.
- BETTERCricket Manager: the 2029 Champions Trophy moves to October in India, and the 2030 T20 World Cup moves to July and August across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Events whose exact dates are not yet announced say so.
PATCH 4.9:Cricket Manager, Clearer From Day One
We played a new career from the first screen as a newcomer and fixed everything that was unclear: labelled ratings, a way out of a live match, the toss in managed matches, and plainer setup, board and staff screens.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: you can now leave a live match (Play or Manage) and return to match day, and the game warns you before a reload throws the match away.
- BETTERBowler lists show a labelled bowling rating, and a specialist bowler's bowling now matches his rating: Yuzvendra Chahal reads as a 91 spinner everywhere, not 91 on the team sheet and 80 in the bowler list. Batters who bowl a little still show their lower figure. This applies to every T20, ODI and Test bowler picker.
- BETTERCricket Manager, managing from the dressing room: you pick the opening bowler too, you can hand the rest of the bowling to the captain mid-match, the toss result is shown, every field and batting call has a marked default with its trade-off, and figures read the usual way (0/11, 1 over).
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PATCH 4.8:Your XI Stays Picked
Your Cricket Manager XI no longer reverts to the selectors' side, press conferences answer the question you were asked, associate nations stop growing into giants in the T20 World Cup, and scorecards stop listing a batter who never walked out as not out.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: press-conference questions and answers now match in subject. Questions about team starts, the toss, the pitch, fielding, rest and tactics get answers about that topic instead of lines about one player or stock replies, and the same answers come round far less often from match to match.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: when one of your picks is injured, retired or out of the squad, only he is replaced, by the selectors' best spare in the same role. Before, one missing name threw out your whole XI and the selectors' side took the field, which showed most after a change of job. The XI screen also stops offering players who cannot play that day.
- FIXEDT20 World Cup: associate nations such as Germany, Uganda, Malaysia and the UAE no longer grow stronger every cycle until they rival the Test sides. Their young players and their development are now capped by where the nation started, so a long career keeps the gap between India and Germany roughly where it is today.
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PATCH 4.7:Cricket Manager: Your Bowlers, Every Session
More control from the dressing room: pick your bowlers over by over, stop at every session of a Test, and choose from India's whole domestic game.
- NEWCricket Manager, managing from the dressing room: pick your bowler for every over of a T20I, as in IPL versus, with each bowler's figures and overs left. In ODIs you pick who bowls at each stop, and in Tests the pair, one from each end. Switch it off with Pick my bowlers.
- NEWCricket Manager Tests: the match now stops at lunch, tea and stumps so you can set the batting tone or the field and bowlers for the next session, when wickets tumble while you bowl, and at every big partnership, not only the first. Switch the session stops off if you want fewer.
- BETTERCricket Manager, playing every ball on a phone: the over break shows the bowler list itself, so you can pick the next bowler without opening the captain's sheet.
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PATCH 4.6:Cricket Manager on Your Phone
Picking a squad on a phone was close to impossible: the squad list and the player pool shrank to nothing. Selection, match day and the new-career steps now work properly on a small screen.
- FIXEDCricket Manager on phones and tablets: your squad and the player pool are visible again and scroll with the page, instead of collapsing to an empty strip.
- BETTERCricket Manager on phones: tap any player to open his dossier as a sheet from the bottom, with an Add or Drop button for the squad you are picking. The pool shows 40 players at a time with a Show more button, and injuries sit next to the name.
- BETTERCricket Manager on phones: the Squads tab opens on the format you are being asked to pick, and the button at the bottom of the screen now confirms that squad instead of sitting greyed out.
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PATCH 4.5:Cricket Manager: A Proper Front Door
New to Cricket Manager? The first screen now shows you everything the game does before you sign a contract, and the Challenges screen has been rebuilt to be easier to scan.
- NEWCricket Manager: a new launch page for first-time visitors, with the first season in six steps, a tour of the office, match day, the board, the press, the backroom, the calendar, the look studio, storylines and challenges, and a manager for every nation to pick from.
- BETTERCricket Manager challenges: the whole hub now fits on one screen. Career challenges and quick scenarios sit in tabs, pick one from the list to see its goal, house rules and star targets in that nation's colours, and the weekly challenge and its leaderboard run down the side.
- FIXEDCricket Manager: manager portraits no longer cut off the top of the head.
PATCH 4.4:T20 World Cup Career: Sim With Your XI
A player reported that the XI he picked was lost when he chose to simulate the match. You can now pick your XI and simulate in one step, and the side you pick stays your starting XI for the next match.
- NEWT20 World Cup career: a Sim Match With This XI button on the Select XI screen. Pick your side and batting order, then simulate the match with it instead of watching ball by ball.
- FIXEDT20 World Cup career: going back to the hub from the Select XI screen now keeps the XI you picked, so Sim Match on the hub plays your side, and your next match starts from it, instead of falling back to the previous XI.
PATCH 4.3:Daily Live Match: South Africa v Australia, 2nd Test
The 2nd Test at St George's Park, Gqeberha, which started today, is now in Daily Live Matches with both real playing XIs.
- NEWSouth Africa v Australia, the 2nd Test at St George's Park, Gqeberha (Oct 18-22), is playable with both real XIs and benches.
- NEWSouth Africa: Kagiso Rabada is back from injury, Matthew Breetzke comes in and Marques Ackerman makes his Test debut. Tristan Stubbs is no longer in the squad.
- NEWAustralia: Scott Boland is in the XI, Nathan Lyon is on the bench and Cameron Green is no longer in the squad.
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PATCH 4.2:Cricket Manager, Redesigned
Cricket Manager has a new look from the first screen to the press room: a command-deck office that fits on one screen, a character studio for your manager, and ready-made managers for every nation in their own shirt.
- NEWCricket Manager: a new office. Everything you need is on one screen: the next fixture, board confidence, rankings, form, fitness, objectives, inbox and fixtures, with every section a page of its own from the rail on the left. The game now follows the site's Dark/Light switch, with a night look and a day look.
- NEWCricket Manager: build your manager in a character studio. Pick male, female or other, then face shape with fine-tune sliders, skin, eyes, brows, expression, 24 hairstyles, beards, eyewear, hats (including a hijab), outfits and extras. Hover any option to try it on, lock what you like and randomise the rest, undo, and see yourself on a matchday card or in the press room.
- NEWCricket Manager: a ready-made manager for all 20 nations, styled for each country and wearing its shirt, and dressed for your background: the old pro in a baggy cap, the analyst in frames with a lanyard, the fitness coach in a headband. Take the job somewhere else and the shirt follows you.
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PATCH 4.1:T20 Reviews, Ageing and Season Review
A player told us reviews were lost nine times in ten, that careers felt stuck and that nobody developed. Reviews are fairer, you can skip the hopeless ones, watched matches play like simulated ones, and ageing and development are now visible.
- NEWT20 matches in every mode (IPL, Dynasty, T20 World Cup career and Cricket Manager): a new tick, "Only ask when a review looks worth taking". With it on, a decision that looked clearly out stands without a prompt, and you are asked only when it looked not out or was a close call. It is on the batting panel and on the review prompt itself, and your choice is remembered.
- BETTERT20 reviews: the ball tracking is now a clue, not an answer. Before, a read under the middle was a certain win and over it a certain loss, so a "50-50" call was never really 50-50. Now there is a genuine close zone, where most decisions stand, and a clear zone where the umpire was plainly wrong. Reviews you choose carefully pay off more often, and the computer captain's reviews land about as often as before.
- NEWT20 World Cup career: a Season Review on the Squad tab, and a link to it from Team News. After each season it lists who in your squad rose and who fell, with their ages and ratings before and after, who retired and which prospects came through. Development always happened, but only a few lines of it were shown.
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PATCH 4.0:Cricket Manager: Run a Nation in Test, ODI and T20I
A new game: become the national team manager of any of the twelve Full Members and run all three formats at once, with a board that sets objectives, judges you and can sack you.
- NEWCricket Manager: a fog of knowledge over potential. You see the range your scouts report, not the true figure, and it narrows as you come to know a player: a long-serving international is nearly exact, an unknown youngster wide open. A player's record, matches for you and a place in your squad all teach you something, and on any player card you can send a scout to follow him. How many you can follow at once depends on your chairman of selectors.
- NEWCricket Manager: the dressing room has a pecking order. The Media tab now shows who carries weight (the captain, the vice-captain and the most experienced), how the senior players, the core and the youngsters each feel, and the effect on cohesion each week. Leaving a leader out of the side is felt by the whole room.
- NEWCricket Manager: the press pack has a memory. Three reporters follow you through the career and each keeps what you tell him. Straight answers earn trust, deflecting and attacking players costs it, and an answer you gave weeks ago can come back as a question. Stand by your word and the press notices; U-turn and they say so. Trusting reporters run kind headlines, hostile ones do not.
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PATCH 3.9:Fixes from your reports
A round of changes straight from Discord and the feedback box: scorecards, super overs, live Test squads and England and India data.
- FIXEDIPL Dynasty: the post-match scorecard tables are readable again, with separate R, B, 4s, 6s and SR columns, and both teams' innings are one tap apart.
- FIXEDIPL Dynasty: the Phase Comparison table no longer shows impossible wicket counts, every phase adds up to the innings, and each run rate now shows the overs it was scored in.
- FIXEDIPL franchise career and Big Bash: the post-match scorecard, including after you resume a season, is laid out properly again, with readable columns and a tab for each team's innings.
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PATCH 3.8:Live Test Squads and Ratings Updated
The South Africa v Australia and Afghanistan v Bangladesh live Tests now carry the squads as announced, and a round of ratings was corrected.
- NEWSouth Africa v Australia: Marques Ackerman, Cameron Green (injured), Sam Harper and Josh Inglis (joins from the 2nd Test) are in the squads.
- NEWAfghanistan v Bangladesh: Rahmanullah Zadran is in the squad; Nayeem Hasan is a travelling reserve and Shoriful Islam takes his place in the XI.
- BETTERRatings revisited: Mehidy Hasan Miraz 81, Mominul Haque 86, Mushfiqur Rahim 87, Marco Jansen 87, Keshav Maharaj 82, Shoriful Islam 68, Cameron Green 84 and Josh Inglis 77 go up; Litton Das 85, Senuran Muthusamy 80 and Marnus Labuschagne 88 come down.
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PATCH 3.7:New Launch Pages for ODI and Test, Wider Header Everywhere
The ODI and Test game-mode screens now match the T20 page, and the site header is wider and lines up on every page.
- BETTERThe ODI and Test launch pages have a new look: big mode cards with your saved campaign and a continue button on each, a panel for your career, and a live CricArcade Now activity panel.
- BETTERThe header now spans the same wide width on every page, from the homepage to the games, so the logo and menu never jump around.
- BETTERThe CricArcade logo and game wordmarks no longer have a drop shadow.
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PATCH 3.6:Reviews Fixed: Overturned Decisions Keep Your Review
Reviews in IPL Dynasty, T20 World Cup, IPL solo and versus now follow the real rules, and the opposition captain reviews smarter.
- FIXEDA review that overturns the decision is no longer taken off you. Only a review where the umpire's decision stands is lost.
- FIXEDThe opposition captain now reviews the decisions that look wrong, instead of the ones that look right, so their reviews overturn at a realistic rate.
- FIXEDIn Test and ODI matches, the third umpire check could freeze on CHECKING and never apply your review if the page refreshed itself at the wrong moment. It now always completes.
PATCH 3.5:Match Scrolling Fixed, Coin Toss in Test and ODI
The page could stop scrolling once a match started and stay stuck until a refresh. That is fixed, and the coin toss now shows in more modes.
- FIXEDThe page no longer locks after a break, review or toss pop-up in a Test or ODI match, so you can always scroll to the scorecard and the finished match.
- FIXEDT20 World Cup squad, captain and match screens, and the IPL match result screen, now show the CricArcade header with a way back home.
- NEWThe Test and ODI toss now uses the spinning coin: call heads or tails, watch it land, then choose to bat or bowl.
PATCH 3.4:Daily Live Matches: Afghanistan v Bangladesh and South Africa v Australia
Two Tests that started today are now in Daily Live Matches, with the real squads and playing XIs.
- NEWAfghanistan v Bangladesh, the Only Test at Abu Dhabi (Oct 09-13), is playable with both real XIs.
- NEWSouth Africa v Australia, the 1st Test at Kingsmead, Durban (Oct 09-13), is playable with both real XIs. Kagiso Rabada is out injured, so he sits on the bench.
PATCH 3.3:T20 World Cup: South African Stars Rated Higher
South Africa's players were rated too low in the T20 World Cup. Six of them have moved up to where they belong.
- BETTERLungi Ngidi (83), Anrich Nortje (83) and Marco Jansen (83) are now among the best fast bowlers and all-rounders in the game.
- BETTERKeshav Maharaj (79), Dewald Brevis (80) and Corbin Bosch (78) are rated higher too.
PATCH 3.2:T20 World Cup: New Launch Page, Hub and Result Screen
The T20 World Cup career gets a clearer launch page, a hub that fits on one screen, a full match-end summary and a complete tournament bracket.
- BETTERThe launch page shows your career at a glance, with a timeline of World Cups and a Your Choice panel listing the strengths of the nation you pick.
- BETTERThe hub fits on one screen: ladder, next fixture and leaders sit side by side, with rules, news and upcoming events in a row below.
- BETTERThe match-end screen now fills the space beside the share card with the result, key moments, the match graph, the biggest partnership and top performers.
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PATCH 3.1:T20 World Cup: Batters Score at Their Real Pace
Abhishek Sharma batted like a bowler in the T20 World Cup. Two things were wrong: every all-rounder who opened was treated as out of position, and a batter's pace came only from his rating, so the most explosive opener in the world scored no faster than Shubman Gill. Both are fixed.
- FIXEDA player who really opens (or bats at No. 3, or at No. 7) is no longer out of position there because of his role. Abhishek Sharma opening is now as good as he is, and so is Shubman Gill.
- BETTERBatters with an established T20I record now score closer to their real strike rate: Abhishek Sharma faster, Gill a little steadier, Suryakumar Yadav quicker.
- BETTERNew careers play this way from the start. A career already under way switches over at the start of its next cycle, so the matches you have already played stay exactly as they were.
PATCH 3.0:One Match Screen for Every Game
Every live match, in IPL Dynasty, the T20 World Cup, Cricket Manager, The Follow-On, the ODI modes and IPL solo play, now uses the same screen: the match on the left, your captain's panel on the right, and one scorecard everywhere. You asked for the Test game's side-by-side layout in T20 and IPL; this is it, for all of them.
- NEWA new IPL and T20 home page: Dynasty and World Cup up top, your franchise set up in one card, continue where you left off, other ways to play, and guides.
- NEWSide by side: the score, commentary, batters and bowler on the left, your captain's panel on the right, so you never scroll to change the field. On a phone the panel opens from a CAPTAIN button beside the play controls, and the score stays pinned at the top.
- NEWA broadcast-style scoreboard: your score, the two batters, the target or the projected total, and the over in progress ball by ball, all in one green panel.
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PATCH 2.9:T20 World Cup: Fitness and Rotation, Vice-Captains, Squads That Change Between Series
Two of a team's series could run over each other, which locked the squad screen and sent you back and forth between opponents. That is fixed, and every side's players now tire and recover, so rotating a bowler is a real decision, for you and for the AI.
- FIXEDNew Zealand v India no longer overlaps New Zealand's next series (and no team is ever in two series at once), so you play one series to the end before the next starts. Careers already in progress have their unstarted series moved apart when you load them.
- FIXEDYou can always pick a new squad when a new series starts. The squad screen only locks in the middle of the series that squad was picked for.
- FIXEDThe vice-captain you pick on the captaincy screen is now kept, shown as VC on the squad page, and leads the side whenever the captain is rested. Resting your captain for a match no longer takes the captaincy away from him.
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PATCH 2.8:IPL Dynasty: Realistic Scoring After 2026
Seasons beyond the real data used to fall back to unfitted engine settings, so from 2027 on matches averaged about 240 an innings with eight wickets a match.
- FIXEDIPL Dynasty seasons from 2027 onward now play on the 2026 season's scoring, in line with the real modern IPL.
PATCH 2.7:T20 World Cup: A Fixed Opening Schedule With Real Series
Your first two seasons (2026-28) used to be drawn at random every time you started a career. They are now the same for everyone, and the series already announced are in on their real dates.
- FIXEDStarting as India (or any nation) no longer gives a different first opponent each time. The 2026-28 series are the same for every new career. Later cycles are still drawn fresh. Careers already in progress keep the schedule they have.
- NEWAnnounced series are real: India v West Indies, New Zealand v India and India v Sri Lanka, plus Pakistan v Sri Lanka, Afghanistan v Zimbabwe, Australia v England and South Africa v Bangladesh, on their real dates. Every other series is generated. Each series is played as three matches.
PATCH 2.6:Chase 380: Tournament Stats and Every Scorecard
The IPL-style stats board is now in the Chase 380 tournament, and the matches between the other teams are played out with full scorecards instead of just a result.
- NEWA new Stats button on the tournament screen shows the leading run scorers and wicket takers across the whole tournament, with average, strike rate, economy and best figures.
- NEWThe My Team tab gives every player in your XI a batting line (innings, runs, high score, average, strike rate, 4s and 6s) and a bowling line (overs, maidens, runs, wickets, economy, average and best).
- NEWEvery match between the other teams now has a full scorecard: batters, dismissals, bowling figures, extras, fall of wickets and player of the match. Open them from the Other Matches tab.
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PATCH 2.5:T20 World Cup: Winning the Semi-Final No Longer Knocks You Out
A player reported winning their semi-final and being told their team was out of the tournament.
- FIXEDAfter you won your semi-final, the hub said your nation was out while the other semi-final was still to play. You now stay in the tournament and go through to the final.
PATCH 2.3:T20 World Cup: Legends for Every Nation
Ticking the legends box in the T20 World Cup career used to unlock only a handful of stars. Every nation now has a bench of retired legends to pick from.
- FIXEDRetired legends were limited to eleven players across seven nations, so New Zealand, England, Pakistan and most others had none. Every nation now has at least five (Tanzania has four, all it has ever had retire).
- NEWNew Zealand's legends include Brendon McCullum, Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson and Trent Boult; the twelve Full Members get eight each.
PATCH 2.2:T20 World Cup Career: Qualify for 2028 and Win It
A new game: take over one of 32 national teams after the 2026 World Cup, play two seasons of T20I series, qualify for the 2028 World Cup, then keep going, with real squads and the same player cards as IPL Dynasty.
- NEWThe T20 World Cup career at /t20-world-cup: two seasons of bilateral T20I series build a rating table, the best twelve (hosts included) go straight to the World Cup, and twenty nations play a qualifier for the last eight places.
- NEWThe World Cup itself is the real format: four groups of five, a Super 8, semi-finals and the final, with net run rate and Super Overs. The 2028 hosts are Australia and New Zealand, and the cycle repeats from there.
- NEWPick your fifteen, then your XI and batting order before every match, name your captain, win or lose the toss, and watch ball by ball or simulate. These are the IPL Dynasty game's own screens.
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PATCH 2.1:IPL Dynasty: Run a Franchise From Any Season Since 2008
Take over any IPL franchise in any year from 2008 to 2026 and run it for as long as you like: the real auctions, the real squads, players who age and improve, and a captain you appoint yourself.
- NEWDynasty Mode: pick a season from 2008 to 2026 and a club, then take it forward season after season through real auctions, retentions and squad ageing.
- NEWName a captain and a vice-captain before every season. A captain steadies a run chase, sets the fields that matter at the death, gets more out of your young players, and counts for more in a knockout.
- NEWPlayers are now rated on batting, bowling, fielding, captaincy, temperament, consistency and fitness separately, so an all-rounder no longer bowls as well as he bats.
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PATCH 2.0:World Cup Career: 4-Year Cycle, Qualifiers & 2027 Tournament
Take any nation or custom World XI through a full 4-year international calendar, qualify through bilateral series or high-stakes qualifiers, and fight for glory in the official 2027 World Cup format.
- NEW4-Year World Cup Career: Manage your squad across a full international FTP cycle with real bilateral fixtures, rankings tables, and multi-year tournament progression.
- NEWOfficial 2027 Tournament Format: Battle through the Qualifiers, sudden-death Super Series, Group Stage (2x6), Super 7, and Knockouts to lift the trophy at the Wanderers.
- NEW20+ Nations & World XI: Captain any international cricket team or assemble an all-time dream XI from over 3,100 legendary players spanning 1971 to today.
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PATCH 1.5:IPL 1v1 Online Multiplayer: Live Draft & Matchplay
Play head-to-head against friends or any live opponent online! Features 1-click matchmaking, open public lobbies, ABBA live snake draft under a ₹100 Cr cap, full 20-over tactical bowling plans, live DRS reviews, and mid-match interventions.
- NEWVersus Lobby with 1-click instant matchmaking and live public rooms browser, plus private invite codes.
- NEWLive ABBA snake draft with authentic ₹100 Cr salary cap, squad balance safeguards, and dynamic pitch scouting reports.
- NEWFull 20-over bowling assignments and live innings break batting promotions/demotions.
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PATCH 1.4:Batting rebalanced: the elite bats reined in
Top-rated batters had become almost impossible to get out, hitting impossible strike rates and racking up 1,000-run seasons. The best batters are still the best, just no longer unstoppable.
- FIXEDThe strongest batters were surviving far too long and scoring at unreal strike rates, pushing team totals and individual seasons well past anything real. Their effective average and strike rate now top out at a sensible ceiling.
- BETTERSeason form and rating still decide who is stronger, so a batter's peak season still outguns his lean ones. Only the runaway top end was pulled back; ordinary players and down seasons are unchanged.
PATCH 1.3:Daily Live Test Matches & Real-World Fixtures
Play real-world Test matches as they happen in real life! Recreate active fixtures like Australia vs Bangladesh with official series squads, authentic venues, and direct deep links.
- NEWDaily Live Test Matches mode: pick any active real-world Test match and captain either nation using their official series squad.
- NEWDedicated deep links (/test/live) to jump directly into the live match selection screen.
- BETTERAuthentic real-world grounds and pitch conditions, including Marrara Oval (Darwin) and Bellerive Oval (Hobart).
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PATCH 1.2:Retention pricing fixed, and you can see who improved
Retention was priced so badly on the ₹150 Cr and ₹200 Cr purses that keeping anyone was a bad deal. That is fixed, and the retention table now shows what the season did to each player.
- FIXEDRetention prices scaled with your purse while auction prices did not, so on the harder settings every player cost far more to keep than to buy. Prices are now the same at every difficulty and a genuine star costs less to keep than to re-sign.
- NEWThe retention table shows each player's rating at the start of the season and now, so you can see who grew and who is starting to fade before deciding who to keep.
- BETTERThe table explains why keeping someone costs a small premium: the auction deals you a random franchise each round, so retention is the only way to choose a specific player.
PATCH 1.1:Careers, retention and the transfer window
Squad Mode used to end with the season and throw the squad away. It now runs season after season, so the players you sign are players you keep.
- NEWRetention: at the end of a season, keep up to 5 players for the next one. Slot prices come off next season's purse, so a strong spine costs you at the auction.
- NEWCareers: your club carries its squad, honours and record across seasons. Every player has a club record: appearances, runs, wickets, titles and a season-by-season history on his card.
- NEWRatings change with performance. A big season lifts a player, a poor one drops him, veterans decline and fringe players grow.
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PATCH 1.0:Three games, one home
The Chase, the IPL Franchise Manager and The Follow-On used to live on three separate sites with three separate accounts. They are now one place: cricarcade.com.
- NEWOne account across all three games. Your handle, your stats and your leaderboard entries follow you between them.
- NEWA combined leaderboard, plus a per-game board for each of the three.
- BETTEREverything you had already played carried over. Careers, card vaults, Hall of Fame runs and match histories all came across from the old sites.
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