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Cricket Team Manager

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.

Released
Developer
LSL Ventures
Platforms
PC, macOS

Cricket Team Manager is the most realistic cricket management game on the market!

The most realistic game engine, built on top of data from real cricket results of the past and with 5000 players in the database with stats and skill values—it's going to keep you hooked.

Manage one of the 12 International Sides

Currently, 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 the Career mode.

A proper international calendar

The game includes real fixtures from day 1 in your game. Real international calendar that gives you the feeling of managing your country in the real world.

The game includes all 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 beginning of the season. You also assign captains for each format.

You can train contracted players and see their skills improving with time. As skills improve, their performance improves in the game. 

Select your squads and pick your XIs.

You select squads before each tour/series from a pool of all international and domestic players in your country. To make it helpful during squad selection, you can see players' career/current/last season stats, skill values, filter by roles, etc.

You select your playing XI before every game while looking at the conditions and the pitch—if it's turning, select an extra spinner. Pitch and weather affect the game. Real grounds are in the game with their own attributes—a subcontinent pitch favors spinners, while English conditions are best for seamers.

You also get to prepare pitches for home matches and try to take home advantage.

The match is ball by ball with full control and stats.

Matches can be simulated ball-by-ball or over-by-over. 

During the live match, you get full control over the game:

• Batting Aggression levels—play defensively and protect wickets if you are 50/4 or go hard at the death overs - You decide everything.

• Shield tail-enders from the strike

• Set fields while bowling and direct bowlers to bowl certain lengths.

• See opposition players' weakness and bat against them and bowl against them accordingly.

• Pitch deteriorates with time, and weather affects the game—so make sure you are keeping an eye.

You get all the stats during the game:

• A detailed and immersive commentary to enjoy the game as it goes.

• Manhattan graphs, worms, partnerships, over-by-over—everything is on the screen

• Batsman wagon wheels and bowler pitch maps along with information on how many balls were middled, how many were defended, how many short pitch deliveries were bowled, and much more. It will keep you hooked.

Players get tired and injured.

• Rest players for tours, and they will recover.

• Players get injured and stay out of action for days/months/weeks—so make sure you manage workloads.

• Some players are more injury-prone than others.

5,000 players in the game.

• 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, as well as the first-class, List A, and T20 careers underneath them.

• Domestic cricket keeps going in the background whether you're watching it or not.

• An uncapped player can spend two seasons making hundreds and taking five for before you finally decide he's earned his chance.

• You can put players on the Watchlist to keep an eye on them. You get notifications when they perform well in domestic cricket. You will know when to select them in the national squad.

Record books and History

Full national records like

• Most runs by each format, most wickets, captaincy records

• A Trophy Cabinet—your aim would be to add more trophies to it.

Player retirement, aging, 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. It doesn't happen the same way for everyone.

Every year, new players (regens) show up in the game as old players retire. Your career can span as long as you want. 

In-game Database Editor

The game comes with an in-game database editor. Search for any player and change their 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.

Ready to take your national team to the next level?

How the launch is going

Ranked 22nd of 159 games released on 1 Oct. No Steam reviews yet.

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