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Fact sheet

Title: Cricket Team Manager
Developer / publisher: LSL Ventures Pty Ltd
Release date: 1 October 2026
Platforms: Windows & macOS
Price: On the Steam store page, in your local currency
Players: Single player, offline
Database: 4,712 players, six career records each
Store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5034440 (opens in a new tab)
Demo: Free on Steam — 5 matches, any nation, the full database
Press contact: info@cricketteammanager.com

Description — short

Cricket Team Manager is the most realistic cricket management game on the market. Take charge of your national team and take them to glory in World Cups, T20 World Cups, and other major international tours and tournaments. Comes with a realistic match engine with 5000 players and real stats.

Description — long

Cricket Team Manager is the most realistic cricket management game on the market. The match engine is built on data from real cricket results, and there are nearly 5,000 players in the database with stats and skill values.

You can select one of the 12 full-member international teams. Your career starts in October 2026, and you develop your team and play year after year in career mode. The game includes real fixtures from day one, and all the major tours and tournaments: home and away tours with Test, ODI and T20 legs, the Ashes and other multi-Test series, a 50-over World Cup every four years, a 20-team World T20 every two years, the Asia Cup, a two-year Test Championship, ODI tri-series, and world rankings in all three formats on the ICC's official points system.

Just like real life, you award central contracts to up to 30 players at the start of the season and assign a captain for each format. You can train your contracted players and watch their skills improve. You select squads before each tour or series from all the international and domestic players in your country, and pick your XI before every game while looking at the conditions and the pitch. Real grounds have their own character, and you can prepare the pitch for home matches.

Matches can be simulated ball by ball or over by over, with full control: batting aggression, shielding the tail, field settings, bowling lengths, and the opposition's weaknesses to target. You get detailed commentary, Manhattans, worms, partnerships, wagon wheels and pitch maps. Players get tired and injured, so workloads matter, and some players are more injury-prone than others.

The players come with real career records across Test, ODI and T20I cricket and the first-class, List A and T20 careers underneath them. Domestic cricket keeps going in the background, and a watchlist lets you follow the players pushing for a place. Players improve, peak, decline and retire, and new players come through every year. Your nation comes with its full records and a trophy cabinet, and an in-game database editor lets you change any player and share your changes with the community.

Features

Manage one of the 12 international sides. You can select any one of the 12 full-member international teams. Your career starts in October 2026, and you develop your team and play year after year in career mode. Your career can last as long as you want.
A proper international calendar. The game includes real fixtures from day one of your career: a real international calendar that gives you the feeling of managing your country in the real world. It has all the major tours and tournaments: Home and away tours, with Test, ODI and T20 legs; The Ashes and other multi-Test series; A 50-over World Cup every four years, starting with 2027 in South Africa and Zimbabwe; A 20-team World T20 every two years, starting with 2028 in Australia and New Zealand; The Asia Cup each September, in either 50-over or T20 format; A two-year Test Championship, with every Test on the calendar counting towards it; ODI tri-series; World rankings in all three formats, using the ICC's official points system.
Contracts, captains and training. Just like real life, you award central contracts to up to 30 players at the start of the season. You also assign a captain for each format. You can train your contracted players and watch their skills improve over time, and as their skills improve, so does their performance in the game.
Select your squads and pick your XIs. You select squads before each tour or series from a pool of all the international and domestic players in your country. To help, you can see each player's career, current and last season stats, his skill values, and filter by role. Then you pick your playing XI before every game, looking at the conditions and the pitch. If it's turning, pick an extra spinner. Pitch and weather affect the game. Real grounds are in the game with their own character: a subcontinent pitch favours spinners, while English conditions suit the seamers. You also get to prepare the pitch for home matches and try to make home advantage count.
The match is ball by ball, with full control. Matches can be simulated ball by ball or over by over. During a live match you get full control of the game: Batting aggression levels. Play defensively and protect wickets at 50/4, or go hard at the death; Shield your tail-enders from the strike; Set fields while bowling, and tell your bowlers what length to bowl; See the opposition players' weaknesses, and bat and bowl against them accordingly; The pitch wears as the match goes on and the weather affects play, so keep an eye on both.
All the stats while you play. You get all the stats during the game: Detailed commentary on every ball, so you can enjoy the game as it goes; Manhattans, worms, partnerships and over-by-over, all on the screen; Wagon wheels for batters and pitch maps for bowlers, with how many balls were middled, how many were defended, how many short balls were bowled, and much more.
Players get tired and injured. Rest players for a tour and they recover. Players get injured and are out of action for days, weeks or months, so manage their workloads. Some players are more injury-prone than others.
Nearly 5,000 players. There are nearly 5,000 players in the database, from established internationals to domestic players you've probably never heard of. They come with real career records across Test, ODI and T20I cricket, and the first-class, List A and T20 careers underneath them. Domestic cricket keeps going in the background whether you're watching it or not, so an uncapped player can spend two seasons making hundreds and taking five-fors before you finally decide he's earned his chance. Put players on your watchlist to keep an eye on them. You get news when they do well in domestic cricket, so you know when to pick them for the national squad.
Record books and history. Your nation comes with its full records: most runs and most wickets in each format, and the captaincy records. There is a trophy cabinet too, and your aim is to add more trophies to it.
Ageing, retirement and regens. Players don't stay at their peak forever. They improve when they are young, reach their best years, and eventually start to decline, and it doesn't happen the same way for everyone. Every year, new players (regens) come into the game as old players retire, so your career can run for as long as you want.
In-game database editor. The game comes with a database editor. Search for any player and change his name, date of birth, batting hand, bowling style, role, batting position or retirement status. Share your changes with other players in the community, and apply their edits to your game.

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