Running a tournament? The player auction is now built right into it. No more registering players by hand or setting team squads one by one. Put a player on the block, let teams bid live, and every winning bid fills that team's squad for you. Follow it all on a big-screen presentation or a live-stream overlay, while each owner tracks their purse and squad from their own war room. Plus smoother academy payments and a batch of fixes.

Player auctions: organizers can now collect player registration fees, and registered players can message the auctioneer directly. Academies: new admin console, staff roles and invitations, stakeholder batch details, and 1-on-1 coaching. Scoring: faster load and a smoother exit from the scoring screen. Fixes: Test match summaries now show the correct over count, plus general stability improvements.

New in this release: - Player Auctions: host a live IPL-style auction with a big-screen and live-stream overlay, real-time bid feed, team purses and a configurable bid timer. - Live streaming: more reliable go-live with delivery-health monitoring. - Academy: public pages to showcase your academy and take enquiries. - Reopen a completed match and revise a chase target mid-innings, plus many scoring and scorecard fixes.

Minor bug fixes and improvements

Version 1.20.1 Our biggest update yet — new ways to analyze your game, run academies, and follow the cricket you care about. NEW - DRS Lab: analyze your deliveries on-device with automatic ball tracking, an LBW projection with a front-on stumps read-out, pannable 3D replay, and pose-based batting coaching — with your clip history synced to the cloud. - Personal Insights: a new analytics space with deep player analysis and your full profile and match history. - Cricket Academies: run an academy end to end — fees, batches, attendance, a store, 1:1 sessions, enrolment and discovery. - Highlight Clips: automatically capture, cut and share match highlights straight to the feed. - Match Officials: add umpires and commentators to matches, each with their own official profile, shown on the scorecard. - Transfer ownership of tournaments and teams to someone else. - Matches of Interest: a new home screen surfacing the matches that matter to you. - Gully cricket leaderboards, alongside Leather and Turf. - Export tournament fixtures as share-ready, day-wise posters. IMPROVEMENTS - Live streams now open in true fullscreen on Android. - The new "World Cup" broadcast overlay is the default look for your streams. - Faster home feed with cache-first loading, follow-based ranking and played-date ordering. - Ground search now finds grounds beyond your cached results. - Higher-quality streaming capture for a clearer picture. - Scoring setup restores your picked squads, with recoverable re-entry if you go offline mid-match. - Jump to the organizer's profile from any tournament, with cleaner, more consistent tournament and match cards. BUG FIXES - Fixed the wagon wheel and field zones for left-handed batters. - Player stats now correctly exclude deleted matches. - Fixed the tournament browse list getting stuck loading. - Qualification badges now appear only once a spot is mathematically certain. - Match results finalize correctly by closing open innings first. - Creating a match no longer intermittently fails on retry. - Phone numbers are saved in a consistent international format. - DRS recording and cloud-sync fixes for reliable analysis. - Numerous other fixes and performance improvements. Thanks for playing with Skipper!

- Add a team to a tournament from a QR photo in your gallery - Reorder tournament rounds before they start - Undo or correct the toss, before or after play begins - Smoother handover when another scorer takes over - A clear alert the moment you go offline - Plus scoring and sync fixes.

- Skipper now supports Test matches and multi-innings matches: two-innings matches and full Test matches, with declarations, follow-ons, days, and draws. - Livestreams look better: big four and six celebrations, wicket moments, and steadier streaming that handles drops and pauses. - Tag brilliant catches, run-outs, and great fielding, all counted in stats and the match story. - Cleaner match results, champions, and Player of the Tournament screens. - Various improvements and fixes.

Minor improvements in Grounds creation and DLS tracking.

Follow the match, and watch live updates in Watch as well as Notification screen

•⁠ ⁠Light theme — Skipper now has full light and dark modes with a refreshed liquid-glass design across the entire app. Switch any time in Settings. •⁠ ⁠Sign in with email — log in with your email address and add players to your squad by email, alongside phone numbers. •⁠ ⁠Local leaderboards — rankings now break down by Country, State, and District, so you can see how you rank close to home. •⁠ ⁠Sharper profile photos — a new square crop with on-screen guidance makes your picture look great every time. •⁠ ⁠Refreshed match reports — AI match summaries and player analysis got a visual update and more accurate team write-ups. •⁠ ⁠New broadcast overlay themes for streamers, including a full-screen four and six celebration. •⁠ ⁠Stability and polish throughout, including scorecard fixes for unusual dismissal formats and clearer scoring screens in light mode.

What's new in v1.13.0 • Leaderboards: weekly & monthly batting, bowling, fielding and team boards. Vote for your favourites and share poster cards. • Universal search across players, teams, matches, tournaments and grounds. • Match cards now show the scheduled start time and a live-stream badge. • Teams: import your match record from other apps, plus a new Stats tab and squad avatars. • Smoother live streaming, overlays and post-match ceremony. • Bug fixes and polish.

Minor bug fixes

- Sort your squad before match day. Pick your XI ahead of time instead of scrambling at the toss, with a suggested last XI to start from and your recent matches a tap away. - Tournament points tables that tell the truth. Tapping a team spells out exactly what it needs to qualify. - Run your groups your way. Add, move or remove teams as the draw changes, with sensible guards once matches are played. - Match alerts that read like a person wrote them. "Won by 55 runs", the team badge right alongside, and no more double pings. - Steadier under the hood.

- Tournament qualification scenarios got smarter. The "what if" math for NRR now runs on the server, so the picture of who needs what to qualify stays accurate even when the standings are tight. - Streaming holds up better when things go wrong. The camera recovers from glitches mid-broadcast, and restarting a stream leaves nothing hanging around from the last run. - Some minor bug fixes and improvements

Verified tournaments. The Skipper team is starting to verify the tournaments we trust. Look for the blue tick next to the name on the Tournaments tab and inside each match's Info card. More tournaments will pick up the tick over the coming weeks. Skipper Cricket streaming is invite-only. Last week a couple of streams broke YouTube's rules and put the whole channel at risk. From now on, only approved users can stream on the official Skipper Cricket channel. Your own YouTube channel is still wide open. If you want Skipper access, there's a Request button on the Stream Setup screen. Shorter sign-up. We don't ask for your date of birth anymore. You can add it later if you want to play in age-category tournaments. Come back any time. If you delete your account and change your mind, just sign in again with the same number. Your stuff comes back with you. Polish - Stream Setup opens cleaner, less flicker - Follow button on tournament pages is easier to spot - Fixed a card layout glitch on small phones

Pro Streaming is here. Drop our overlay URL into OBS, vMix or Prism and your live scorecard appears on stream, with ten themes to pick from. Going live is also easier to find on every live match, and a new explainer tells you exactly what you need to start streaming. A few visual polish touches around the live screen too.

v1.8.1 — Follow your favourites! NEW: Follow matches, players, and tournaments. Get live & end notifications right on your home screen. Share a match link to auto-follow on the recipient's phone. Also: - Tournament UX: Cleaner tabs, better contrast - Delete rounds/groups after a tournament starts - Streams default to 1080p (higher bitrate floor) - Fixes: YouTube player, OTP login, offline scorecard, deep links

Critical bug fixes in scoring

v1.7.0 - Smoother sync with batch delivery uploads - YouTube: fullscreen scrub, share, open in app - Onboarding fix for Android device transfers - Tournaments: toss/live matches, remove teams, tap team/ground, pull to refresh - Captains, owners, scorers can run tournament matches - Wicket picker: Caught & Bowled, keeper catches marked - Edit scorecard improvements; live overlay themes - Many bug fixes

v1.6.1 • Tournament matches: change overs and players per side mid-tournament (rain games, low attendance, exhibition formats) • Live streaming: smoother overlay animations and a more stable camera on Android • Scoring: extra safety net against duplicate ball entries Thanks for playing!

Skipper v1.6.0 is live! • Expanded globally! 1,500+ cities added (USA, UK, AUS, PAK, SL & more). • Edit Scorecard: Quickly fix scoring mistakes mid-match. • Walkovers: Award matches when teams no-show. • Tournaments: Smarter scheduling & team management. • Streaming: Sturdier camera & fewer exits.

New - Run-out scoring collapsed into one screen with photo fielder cards. Faster taps, far fewer mis-picks. - Smarter keeper handling: pick a keeper at toss, confirm on stumpings and caught-behinds, swap mid-match from the scoring menu, and see a clean † next to keeper dismissals on the scorecard. - Toss screen redesigned as a versus card with a slide-up bat / bowl picker. - Squad selection redesigned with a live Playing XI counter, search, and richer player rows. - Search bar inside the Change Playing Squad sheet so a long roster takes one tap, not endless scrolling. - Chase context (runs needed, balls remaining) now travels with you onto scoring pickers and the wicket and over sheets, so the scorer never has to back out to check. Streaming - A pile of fixes from a long field session. Theme colours stay on theme, the ticker now shows full names, the new-batter announcement is finally correct, and going live surfaces a real "please sign in again" error instead of failing silently. - Phone calls no longer kill the stream. Only genuine audio interruptions do. - Frozen Android preview now recovers on its own when the network blips. - Scorecard list opens with live matches first, then in timeline order. Reliability - The "logged out at random" bug is fixed. - Innings break shows up properly in the live tab. - Ground screen: bottom-nav overlap fixed, titles readable in light mode, and ground selection is mandatory so matches no longer ship without one. - Tournament squads now sync correctly, and a missing squad shows a clear error instead of bouncing you back to home. - Adding a player mid-match refreshes the match the first time, every time. - Adding a player from contacts now creates them as a real Skipper user, so they show up everywhere. Polish - Close buttons on Select Openers, clearer button text and an "add later" hint on squad selection. - Coin-flip animation steps aside once you pick the toss manually. - NRR is now correct in two-innings games where overs ran out without all wickets falling. - Tennis ball defaults to Regular, box cricket scoring options off by default.

## Skipper Cricket v1.4.2 ### New - Toss screen redesign — versus battle card with animated coin flip - Squad selection redesign — Playing XI counter, search, rich player rows - Scoring Options system — per-field enrichment rules with presets - Shot type prediction engine - Left-hand batter field wheel mirroring + LHB badge - Chase context on scoring pickers - Admin dashboard: verified/unverified user stats - App download banner on web scorecard pages - Search bar in Change Playing Squad ### Fixed - NRR calculation — uses innings.endReason (ICC compliant) - Deep link auth — shared URLs work for logged-out users (P0) - 15+ scoring edge cases from comprehensive audit - Completed tournaments now visible in browse - Ground selection mandatory, no skip - Box cricket auto-disables scoring options - Select Openers — added close button - Web scorecard crash fix - Sunlight legibility improvements - Atomic delivery writes (prevents data loss)

What’s New in Skipper v1.3.0 Pro Share Cards: Share broadcast-quality performance cards with photos and achievement badges to Instagram & WhatsApp. Redesigned Match Summary: New UI featuring player photos and "Also Starred" performance grids. Smart Scoring: Added DLS par scores, wicket/innings confirmation sheets, and "keep screen awake" support. Live Streaming: Resume interrupted streams and use new overlay themes. Bug Fixes: Resolved 50+ issues including strike rotation and scorecard crashes.

What's New in v1.2.0: • Discovery: Completely redesigned tournament browse with advanced search, filters, and nearby discovery. • Insights: Added new visual scoring zones for deeper player performance analytics. • Sharing: Share messages now include direct links to Team and Player profiles. • UI: Added our custom Skipper stumps loading animation. • Fixes: Resolved striker rotation logic, fixed live stream overlay reconnects, and patched spectator squad views.