Updates Patch notes & new features
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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 Medium every player cost 23% to 88% more to keep than to buy, and on Easy up to 150% more. 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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