New Features
Player Story Arcs
Players now have dynamic narrative states that evolve through the season. Active arcs include Breakthrough Season, Contract Dispute, Veteran Decline, Captaincy Candidate, Returning From Injury, Young Prospect Hype, Form Slump, and Series Hero. Each arc is visible in the squad tab and produces story cards in the post-match summary. Manager responses (Reassure, Challenge, Ignore) have real effects on morale and confidence.
Mentorship System
Assign a veteran (age 30+, rating 70+) as a mentor to a young or recently promoted player. Up to two active mentorships per season. Mentors provide potential growth bonuses, raise confidence floors, speed up form recovery, and improve contract loyalty. Mentor effectiveness drops by 30% if they play every match — creating meaningful rotation decisions.
Player Promises
Attach a promise to contract offers: Regular Starter, Rotation Player, Development Player, Format Specialist, or Leadership Pathway. Keeping promises rewards morale and loyalty. Breaking them triggers board messages and wage demands.
Academy Intake Day
A dedicated season-start screen where 3–6 youth prospects are presented for recruitment. Each prospect has a name, age, role, current rating, and potential rating. Players can accept, decline, or defer. Accepted players join the academy and progress through seasons.
International Career
Full international career workflow added. Select a nation, manage international squads, and compete in international fixtures alongside your domestic career. Includes India, Ireland, and all full ICC members.
T20 Career Workflow
Dedicated T20 franchise career path reworked with its own squad management, auction simulation, and season structure.
Expanded Country Support
Domestic career now supports New Zealand (Auckland) and West Indies (Barbados Pride) in addition to existing countries. Also supports more than 7 countries simultaneously.
Achievement Screen
Achievements screen redesigned with improved layout and milestone tracking.
Player Transfer System
Transfer details screen added with a full transfer summary dialog. Player pool is now persistent across sessions.
Gameplay Improvements
Player Events, Morale & Retirement
Players now generate in-season events tied to morale — including retirement decisions, loyalty shifts, and form-linked confidence changes.
Contract Renewal Cap
Manual contract renewals are blocked when they exceed the total squad budget or the 85% individual wage cap.
Simulated Match Stats — Individual Per-Player Innings
AI fixture simulation now generates individual batting scores and bowling spells for every player based on their rating vs opposition strength. Rankings reflect authentic individual performances rather than distributed team totals.
Player Rankings — All Teams
Domestic batting and bowling rankings now include players from all teams, not just the user's team.
Batting Order Simulation
Best batters are correctly placed at the top of the order in simulated matches, ensuring ranking accuracy.
Synthetic Match Simulation
Fixed maiden over detection and final ball commentary in simulated fixtures.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed player ages not incrementing at season end when no retirements occurred in a team
- Fixed NRR display showing -1.-2 instead of -1.2 for values below -1
- Fixed next batsman dialog not showing the correct incoming player
- Fixed stumping dismissal logic incorrectly crediting catches
- Fixed one-day batting score calculation errors
- Fixed field map animation positioning in certain formations
- Fixed international player selection screen showing incorrect eligibility
- Fixed database import screen workflow errors
- UI & Visual
- Main menu redesigned with updated branding and logo
- Batting card and bowling card scorecard presentation improved
- Jersey image rendering refactored
- Colour theme updated — white, green, and emerald palette refined
- International squad selection screen redesigned
- Achievement screen layout overhauled
- Campaign Insights removed from season summary screen
- International Career shown as a prominent (disabled) placeholder card on career picker
- Teams Reference JSON available in the Import panel for custom player database builds
Platform & Build
Windows, Linux, and macOS now ship as a single combined Steam build