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.
Detailed Patch Notes
16 itemsCricket 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.
Bowler 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.
Cricket 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).
Batting all-rounders are now judged on their bowling when the captain hands out overs, in every T20 mode that knows a player's bowling (Cricket Manager, IPL Dynasty, the T20 World Cup). Abhishek Sharma's rating is his batting, so he no longer bowls four overs ahead of Arshdeep Singh and Harshal Patel: in Cricket Manager his share drops from about three overs a match to about two, and Hardik Pandya bowls more.
Cricket Manager: a playing XI you change on match day is kept as soon as it has eleven players, so going back to the office no longer loses it, and the Save XI button is gone. The panel says whether the selectors' XI or yours will play.
ODI and Test bowler lists: batters who barely bowl no longer show a strong bowling number. Virat Kohli read as an 82 ODI bowler and Rohit Sharma 78; batters with no bowling record now read as non-bowlers and sit at the bottom of the list, and a handful of wickets counts for little. Real bowlers' numbers are unchanged.
Cricket Manager: the assistant coach now judges the XI you have actually picked, never suggests bringing in a player who is already in it, and no longer tells you both to bring a player in and to keep him. Press questions about what the opposition can do, where your belief comes from or the backroom staff get answers about that, not stock lines about your own side.
Cricket Manager media room: every story now reads like a real report, with a dateline, a match box showing both scores and the top performers, a photo and caption of the player who made the headline, and coverage written from the scorecard. The press also stops calling a big win a close one.
Cricket Manager on phones: Squad Statistics now scrolls sideways so every column can be seen, with player names pinned on the left, and the office no longer blinks and jumps as the browser's toolbar shows and hides while you scroll.
Cricket Manager, playing every ball: you now choose the opening bowler of each innings you bowl, before the first ball. Before, the first over always went to the captain's pick even if you had chosen someone else.
Cricket Manager squads: the format you are picking leads everywhere, labelled (T20I 98), with the all-formats rating second. Potential never shows above 99, and players past their development years no longer show room to grow. Role codes, rating colours and scouting knowledge are explained.
Cricket Manager match day: the pitch report and the backroom are shown as two opinions when they disagree, the live match is titled with the fixture, and the press conference comes before the scorecard, with a line on how each answer landed.
Cricket Manager office: one Confirm squad button instead of three, the first-day tour no longer covers the next fixture, a notice when backroom roles are empty, explanations for Negotiate and the dressing-room groups, and captains named by format.
Cricket Manager new career: the game says why you cannot continue without a name, each step opens at the top, your look no longer asks gender and age a second time, every difficulty is described, tours in the job dossier show their format, money reads $2.4m, and the contract explains how the interview sets the board's starting confidence.
T20 World Cup and Cricket Manager: five batting all-rounders' bowling now matches how much they really bowled. Chris Gayle's bowling drops from 93 to 72, Andre Russell's from 92 to 86, Kieron Pollard's from 88 to 80, Yuvraj Singh's from 87 to 80 and Abhishek Sharma's from 78 to 70. Their batting and overall ratings are unchanged.
Cricket Manager: a rank objective no longer shows as half done on day one, and small wording slips are fixed ("in 1 days", "1 matches", "Par about about").