- Howzat is now made for iPad too: play full screen or in any window, in landscape or portrait. - The sky moves through the day as you bat: afternoon, golden hour, dusk, then a floodlit night. Some innings start at night and bat through to morning. - Your player: tap your portrait on the menu to choose a face, skin tone, hair, beard and headwear, and pick your kit, pads, gloves and bat in one place. - Out for a duck? A little duck waddles off with you. First ball out earns the golden duck. - Settings is calmer and tidier, with a music volume slider. - Every screen now plays the same field shape, so scores are fair from iPhone SE to iPad.

- A new pavilion look: timber scoreboards, brass buttons, red-leather PLAY and a fresh scorecard that is easier to read. - Complete looks: twelve matching sets of kit, pads, gloves and bat, worn in one tap. Earn new Violet pads, Lemon and Coral gloves, and Tiger Stripe, Storm and Lagoon bats. - A short ball you leave no longer clips the stumps. - Milestone banners now sit beside your raised bat instead of covering it. - The batter's top hand stays on the bat when you get low. - Settings has a new My Other Apps section. Try Drop, my falling-ball tilt game.

- Background music: six stadium band tracks play on the menu and while you bat. Pick one or shuffle in Settings > Tracks, and preview any of them. - Separate switches for Effects, Crowd and Music. Your own music always takes over. - Short balls: medium and fast bowlers now bang it in short. Duck, leave or take them on. - Bowling keeps getting harder past 200 runs, all the way to 700. - Milestones every hundred up to 700, and the batter now raises his bat to celebrate. - Fixed the next-ball timer staying on screen after leaving the app.

- New Open Game Center button in Scores > Worldwide: see every Howzat leaderboard and your achievements in one place. - The retired strike rate leaderboard no longer shows up in Game Center.

New Privacy setting: Howzat now sends anonymous usage counts, such as how long you play and which screens you open, so we can see what to improve next. No name, account or exact scores are sent, and nothing is used for tracking or ads. Turn it off any time in Settings > Privacy > Share anonymous usage.

Shorter pauses after boundaries: the next ball now comes 1 second after a four and 2 seconds after a six. Want no pause at all? Turn off Pause after boundaries in Settings. Two new worldwide leaderboards: Total runs and Innings played. Every finished innings counts, so you can climb them from your first game. The strike rate leaderboard has been retired. Best innings, This week and Average are unchanged.

- 26 new looks to earn: multi-colour kits that style your sleeves and trousers, plus new pads, gloves and full-blade bat designs. - Unlock them through achievements and new career goals, like lifetime runs, fours and innings. Settings shows each look on your player before you unlock it. - A gold dot on the Settings gear means something new is waiting. - Scores lists your top five innings, and the scorecard tells you when you equal your best or post one of your best five. - A "Past your best!" moment when you overtake your personal best. - Cleaner icons and a quicker first ball.

- Pressure builds as your innings grows. Past 50, 100 and 200 runs, bowlers send down quicker balls, spinners turn it more, and seamers mix in slower balls and yorkers. Pace still tops out at 150 km/h. - New weekly leaderboard. Everyone starts fresh every Monday. - 12 achievements to chase, from your first fifty to a triple century. - Earn new kit colours and bat stickers by unlocking achievements. - See how close you came to your best, and share your scorecard.

- New batting gloves: both hands now wrap round the handle and meet, like a real batter's grip.

- Balls faced and runs now update together, when each delivery is decided. - Strike rate is shown per 100 balls. Your saved scores convert automatically. - A big NEXT BALL countdown appears mid-screen after boundaries, milestones and quiet dead balls. - A ball that rolls to a stop now gets a two-second pause before the next delivery. - New worldwide leaderboards for career strike rate and average, open after 20 innings.