• Report or block someone directly from a chat • Links now open even when the app is already running • More reliable live score connection for streamers • Club owners can transfer ownership of their club • Bug fixes and performance improvements

Skipper 1.29 brings the academy to life and keeps you closer to the teams you care about. For academies - Enrol a student in minutes. Add your own custom fields, capture medical and contact details, and scan the signed paper form straight from the phone. - Parents hear from you where they already are. Fee reminders, receipts and present, late and absent updates go out on WhatsApp, with SMS as a fallback. - Book nets, courts and bowling machines, schedule 1:1 sessions and take cash or online payment on the spot. - Run tournaments, camps and workshops with a step-by-step event builder, and let families register themselves or their kids. - Open a team store for kit and merchandise. - Send monthly performance reports to parents with a tap. For players and fans - Follow a team. Get a nudge when their match starts and again when the result is in. - Share tournament schedules and results as clean, ready-to-post cards. - Share a full match report with one link. - Pick your sport, any sport. Academies can now offer anything from cricket to kabaddi. Under the hood - Faster sync, a smarter update prompt, and fixes across scoring, streaming and tournaments.

Cricket Academies are now extended to multi-sport academies or other sports. And as always we keep fixing bugs and making improvements. Academies - Run chess, badminton and athletics alongside cricket, with the sport set for each batch, plan and class. - Every new student gets their own account, confirmed with a code to the parent's phone and the parent's consent. - Every family is told when you raise a one-off charge for a kit or a camp. Auctions - A new auction room for the hall projector and the live stream, with 39 themes you can change while the auction is live. - Player names, price strips and hall dashboards are shown clearly while bidding is on. Streaming and matches - "Stream this match" explains how to set up a second phone as the camera. - "Go Live" checks your internet first and tells you if the phone is not connected. - Delete a walkover match, and search teams in "Manage Teams". Scoring and web - Score smoothly offline. Your balls upload on their own once you are back online. - See team records, honours and fielding numbers on skippercricket.com without logging in.

YOUR ACADEMY, RUN FROM YOUR POCKET This is the big one. Everything an academy does between "a parent calls" and "the fees are in" now lives in Skipper. ENROL IN ONE FLOW Start from the family's number. Find the player or create them, pick the batches, assign the fee plan — one flow, one tap to finish. It used to take three separate screens. ATTENDANCE YOU CAN ACTUALLY READ Day, month, register and a parent's calendar, all in charts rather than columns. Mark the whole batch at once, or one student at a time as they wander in. Owners can export the month as a PDF for the file. PAUSE A MEMBERSHIP, PROPERLY Exams, injury, a month away. Set the dates and the billing stops with them — nobody is charged for time they were not training, and nobody is chased for it either. Billing picks up from the day they come back. FEES THAT CHASE THEMSELVES Set your reminder schedule once. Families get one reminder, not one per invoice. Coaches get a nudge when a register goes unmarked. You stop being the person who sends the messages. PAY BY UPI, SKIP THE PLATFORM FEE Pick how you want to pay and see both prices before you commit. UPI costs the academy nothing, so we charge nothing for it, and the app says so plainly instead of burying it. MORE THAN FEES Matches, tournaments, kit — raise a one-off charge for anything, and see exactly what is pending, what is collected, and who still owes what. TOURNAMENT LIVE STREAMING Go live across a whole tournament, not one match at a time. Streams roll on from fixture to fixture, with ad breaks at overs and wickets. SHARE THE GOOD DAYS A card for any player, any innings — nine poster designs for the performances worth framing. And a paper scorecard PDF, for the scorer who still likes a file. THE MATHS, CORRECTED Some quiet fixes worth naming. A DLS win is now measured against the par that actually decided it. A chase level with par is a tie, not a win. Test matches end on an innings victory in normal batting order. Net run rate stopped recomputing on knockout brackets, where it never belonged. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE Ball-tracking review got pinch-zoom and a straight answer when the decoder stalls. Live streaming picked up tournament history and a match picker that finds the game you meant. The public site now shows a live chase strip while you watch.

Find teams easily when creating matches in tournaments.

- Stream your matches live to YouTube and score local games like a professional broadcaster. - Set custom wide and no-ball rules for tape ball cricket under Special Rules in your match format. - Apply tournament playing conditions under Scoring rules so every fixture follows your local rules. - Expand tournaments up to 1024 teams using Custom, with points tables and fixtures handled for you. - Add a match already played into any round and let your points table update automatically. - Find your friends on Skipper in one tap to follow their scores and stats. - Review close calls right on your phone with instant DRS Cam video replays. - Keep scoring smoothly even in remote grounds with low connectivity and weak mobile networks. - Live auction rooms now update instantly as players are sold to keep tournament bidding fast. - Tournament schedules open faster so players and fans never miss a ball.

STEADIER AUCTIONS, TOUGHER SCORING Live auctions that stay live The auction room used to drift out of sync — you would be mid-bid and the screen simply stopped keeping up, and the only cure was force-quitting the app. We found it: the app was quietly holding several connections to the same room at once, and one dying took the healthy one down with it. That is fixed. Bids land faster, the gavel passes cleanly between auctioneers, and the room holds its connection for hours instead of seconds. Your scoring queue cannot be jammed by one bad ball A single delivery the server refused could sit at the head of your sync queue and block everything behind it — the rest of the match included. Rejections are now final instead of retrying forever, and the run entry itself is clamped, so a mis-tap cannot create a delivery that gets stuck in the first place. Team re-entry Knocked out of the group stage? A team can now be revived into another group of the same stage with a fresh record — while every side they already played keeps their points, their wins and their net run rate in full. No recalculated tables, no lost results. Sturdier on a bad connection Cricket does not always happen where the signal is good. The app now survives DNS failures that used to end a session outright, and we fixed a freeze that could catch you on the very first screen after opening. Plus a long list of smaller repairs across the auction war room, tournament standings and the scoring controls. Every player counts.

Every angle of the same ball, in one place. DRS Cam used to work only on the phone holding the camera. Now every clip of a delivery lives together: switch between angles, put two side by side to compare, and see stump lines drawn from each camera's own survey rather than a blended guess. Umpires and coaches can open the gallery on their own phones without taking over the tripod, and a second phone can record remotely while the first keeps filming. Setting up a tournament fixture no longer walks you through four screens. When the tournament already knows the overs, ground and format, you go straight to picking your squad, with a strip showing what the match inherited and an Edit button for the fixture that needs something different. Grounds now remember their pitch type, so fixtures inherit it instead of asking you again. A new MVP board ranks players on batting, bowling and fielding together, using the same points that decide Player of the Match, so the numbers agree wherever you see them. Weekly takes your best single match, monthly adds them up. Auctions now keep an activity history, so the actions that used to quietly overwrite each other leave a trail you can read back. Pools, team retention and a per-player screen make a long auction easier to follow. Academy attendance asks which batch before you start, so a coach with several batches is never guessing, and an invited coach can now accept their invite. Also in this release: pages load faster on slower connections, live updates hold steadier through network drops, net run rate is correct for tournaments that are not 20 overs a side, a two-innings mis-tap no longer strands a live match, and names written with emoji render properly instead of crashing the screen.

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