Cricket Manager: A Real World Test Championship, and Tri-Series

Cricket Manager: the 2025-27 World Test Championship no longer starts empty on your first day. It begins from the real table as it stood on 5 October 2026, over-rate deductions included, so a side can no longer reach the final on two wins from two. Careers already in that cycle get the real table added the next time they load.

Cricket Manager: every WTC cycle now follows the ICC format. Each of the nine nations plays six series, three at home and three away, and only those series count. The Ashes, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy come round every cycle with the host alternating; the other pairings change from one cycle to the next.

Cricket Manager: the rest of the real 2025-27 programme is in, including South Africa v Australia and West Indies in Bangladesh, and more rivalries carry their trophy names, such as the Crowe-Thorpe Trophy and the Sobers-Tissera Trophy.

Cricket Manager: ODI and T20I tri-series. A host and two visitors play each other twice, then the top two meet in a final. Winning one is a trophy for your cabinet.

Cricket Manager: India and Pakistan no longer meet in bilateral series or tri-series. They play each other only at ICC and ACC events.