Cricket Australia Live 4+

As a cricket tragic, I am very grateful for this app and the services and information it provides. As a former journalist, I find the news articles tiresome unfortunately: way too much copy written by people who must know they don’t have a decent subeditor and who clearly have way too much time to write articles. I suggest more articles that are a briefer and less verbose, rather than a story filed every other day that is four times longer than it needs to be. Love the Cricket Network in particular: a brilliant use of funds that entertains the sport’s admirers and which can bring revenue through on selling matches. Well done.

They’ve changed the UI in the latest version and it makes it really difficult to find out what games are live or upcoming. For some reason you have to put in team preferences now, and then it sorts those results alphabetically rather than by game datetime. This is also weird because if you want to follow the big bash for example, you have to follow EVERY SINGLE TEAM. If you want to go down the preference route, let us select competitions, not just teams. If you’re looking at the all matches tab, games are sorted by date, but games which are on the same day are hidden behind a horizontally scrolling carousel. It’s really difficult to find a specific match, even if it’s live. I’m all for trying to make improvements to make apps easier to use, this update does the opposite. I recommend the app developer perform some UX testing and revert back to the old design or try something else. Give us a simple vertical list sorted by date time. Highlight live matches (and maybe starting soon) at the top and be done with it. Your users will thank you.