Beta testers asked for a darker game, and it turned into a bigger job than a colour
change. Here is what the game looks like now.
Dark by default
It opens dark and stays dark. There is a light theme on a toggle, on the main menu and
at the top of the hub, if you would rather have the old one.
The hub tells you what is happening
Load a career and you can see the next match, your last five results, where you sit in
the world rankings, who is injured and who is scoring your runs. It used to be a list
of buttons. Now it tells you where you stand before you click anything.
Every ball reads like a scoreboard
The commentary is a feed. Each ball carries what happened to it — a dot, a number, a
wicket — and the ones that matter are marked. Fifties, hundreds and five-fors go up as
they are reached. Alongside it there are tabs for the over by over, the partnerships,
and in a one-day game the runs per over and the chase worm.
Quicker to drive
Drag a player up or down to reorder your batting, or drag him onto a reserve to swap
the two. Enter bowls the next ball and Space bowls the next over, and if you hold
either one down the match keeps going until you let go.
Two screens that were half empty
The hub now carries your leading run-scorer and leading wicket-taker in each format
this season. The team sheets you get before a match now show the pitch and the weather
you are playing on, how the two sides compare, and how your own men are going — who is
out of nick, and who is short of a gallop.
Your career is safe
None of this touches the cricket. A beta 2 career loads and carries on, and a match you
left half played picks up on the same ball.
Out 1 October 2026.