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.
Detailed Patch Notes
6 itemsT20 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.
T20 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 about one review in ten is overturned, and a clear zone where the umpire was plainly wrong. Reviews you choose carefully win about a quarter to a third of the time, and the computer captain's reviews land at about the same rate as before.
T20 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.
T20 World Cup career: players now age properly. Good form used to cancel a veteran's decline completely, so a 36-year-old on a winning side never slowed. Now form can offset only half of it and the decline is steeper, so stars fade in their mid-thirties. It applies from your next season, in careers already under way.
T20 World Cup career: a match you watch ball by ball now plays like the same sides simulated. Watched matches had been running about four runs lower and losing about half a wicket more per innings, which made batting feel harder than the ratings said. Matches already played are unchanged.
T20 reviews: the ball-tracking line now speaks in the dismissal's own terms (lbw, caught, stumped), and the prompt adds a short nudge when the situation matters, such as a tailender late on with your last review, or a top-order batter early with reviews in hand.