Legends, Dashboard Sims and Rebuilt Manager Screens

Cricket 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.

Cricket 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.

IPL Dynasty: Kane Williamson is rated 91 in 2018 (he was 85).

Cricket Manager: the Continue screen now shows your win rate, a days-to-go countdown to the next match, your last four results and the next four fixtures, instead of leaving the lower half empty. The hero is re-set with a gradient title and rule, icon stats, icon feature cards and three equal-width actions, and dark mode gets clearly lighter title bars on the match screen.

Cricket Manager: a Test at a ground the game has no table for, like Ranchi, could be played at a stadium in another country (India v Australia in Karachi). Grounds are now matched by whole words and fall back to one of the host nation's own, and saves with the wrong ground on a match still to play are corrected.

Cricket Manager: the Calendar tab has a Results view with every match of your career, filtered by year and format, each with its scorecard while one is kept (the last 20 matches). Careers started before this show the results still held, and every match from now on is kept for good.

Cricket Manager: the dashboard fixtures card has an Upcoming / Results switch. Results lists your recent matches with the score, and a click opens the full scorecard.

Cricket Manager: the pre-match Team Instructions are now a compact Game Plan (batting approach, field, declaration, follow-on, nightwatchman and the toss call in a two-column grid), and the Backroom is one tight line per adviser, so a Test fits without scrolling.

Cricket Manager: sides that missed an ICC event, or were knocked out of it, were given a short series inside the event window. No Full Member plays anything else while an ICC event is on (the World Test Championship final aside).

Cricket Manager: the pre-match screen is rebalanced so it fits without scrolling, with a dark title bar on every panel. Their likely XI shows all eleven at once, the series (any length) or the tournament you are in is a track of numbered match nodes in the header, with flags and the ground beside the teams, and a new form guide shows both sides' last five results and how you have met. Play is marked as the main way to start.

Cricket Manager: sim from the dashboard. The next-match card has Sim this match, and Sim the series or Sim the tournament, which play your matches in a row on your usual XI and plan without the match screens. A knockout, an unconfirmed squad or a decision stops it, so the big games stay yours, and a result card shows how each simmed match went. Challenge careers that require every match to be played keep the buttons off.

Cricket Manager: all-rounders on the squad screen now show whether they bowl seam or spin, as a small P or S beside the AR tag.

Cricket Manager: the All-Time International stats now have the Batting and Bowling tabs the other views have. Batting shows innings, not outs, runs, highest score, average, hundreds and fifties; bowling shows wickets, runs conceded, average and five-wicket hauls, each combining a playerx27s real career with his matches for you.

Cricket Manager: a season's form now moves ratings fairly in every format. ODI bowling was never judged at all, so a bowler who topped the wicket charts in a World Cup still lost rating to ageing; it is now, up to 3 points a season against the drop from age. The bar for a par season in Tests, ODIs and T20Is was also re-set to what the match engine really produces, which had been quietly marking batters down about a point a season.

Cricket Manager: the tournament table on the hub was cut off after three or four teams and its "All groups and fixtures" button was invisible, so a World Cup group could not be opened. The card now scrolls, the button is visible, and tapping anywhere on the card opens the full groups and fixtures.

Cricket Manager: job offers after you resign or are sacked now follow your name. A manager with a big reputation is courted mostly by the big boards (India, Australia, England, South Africa, then the next tier) and can get up to three approaches, instead of a random draw that mostly landed on the smallest nations.

Cricket Manager: the next fixture on the hub could change when you pressed Continue, because an ICC event is only drawn 40 days before it starts and its knockout matches are only set once the group stage ends. While an event is still to be drawn, or your side is waiting on results to learn whether it plays on, the hub now says so instead of showing a series game the event would jump ahead of. The board's short quiet-spell series carry a note too.

Cricket Manager: player records corrected. Mahli Beardman is now a fast bowler with a bowling rating to match (he was listed as a batter with 48 bowling), Nqaba Peter is a leg spinner in every format (the ODI side listed him as a pacer), and Rajat Patidar, Naman Dhir, Harsh Dubey and Prabhsimran Singh now use their real birth dates instead of estimates. Naman Dhir and Harsh Dubey no longer open with a made-up T20I career of 608 runs and 3 wickets; neither has played a T20I.

Cricket Manager: retirements no longer ambush you. A month before the season turns each player who may retire sends you a message in the inbox, and when your regulars decide to call time, the first few come to you as a decision: ask him to play on another year, or let him go. Before, they were simply gone on 1 October, even right before a World Cup.

Cricket Manager: farewell and step-away requests no longer come from players who have already retired from that format (a T20I farewell from KL Rahul after he had retired from T20Is, a T20I step-away from a player no longer playing them). Old saves also drop retired players from their squads.

Test and ODI World Cup menus sometimes loaded with a huge empty gap above the mode cards and an oversized stadium picture. It happened after visiting Cricket Manager in the same session, whose launch page shared style names with these menus. They no longer clash.

IPL Dynasty and WPL Dynasty: the squad stats archive now shows batting average and bowling average, for each season and for the all-seasons totals.