Cricket Captain 2022

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About this game

Cricket Captain 2022 is primed and ready, putting you in control. Can you manage your team to victory? A compelling year of cricket includes the 20 over World Cup and crucial internationals, overseen by a new England management structure. Cricket Captain includes a major re-structure of the player aggression system in both FC and one-day matches, providing greater realism, coaching options and analysis.

Limited over matches have been the main focus of development for Cricket Captain 2022, with new ball impact and swing movement balanced to reduce the wickets lost in white ball matches. Batsmen also settle more quickly, making collapses less prevalent. The aggression system mirrors a player’s real strike rate precisely, modelling boundary hitting and accumulation ability. With new separate aggression ratings for all players for First Class and Limited Over match types, white ball cricket has never been as dynamic.

Cricket Captain 2022 features all domestic system changes, and a database update, including new international home and away player stats.

Key features for 2022 include:
• New Batting Aggression System: fine grained ratings mirroring real player ability, modelling accumulators and boundary hitters.
• Expanded Coaching: new Batting Specialism options allow coaching of batting aggression and opener types.
• Stadium Updates: updated stadium models to reflect ground changes.
• One Day and 20 Over New Ball: reduced new ball and swing impact in limited over.
• Reduced Batting Settled Impact: reduces batting collapses in 20 Over games.
• Match Engine: significantly improved using the latest statistical analysis and user feedback.
• International Home and Away Stats: analyse how your players perform at home and away.
• English Domestic System: with the latest competition formats and squads.
• Indian Domestic System: updated to match the new 20 Over format.
• Improved New Player Generation: rebalanced with focus on real youth player abilities.
• New Kits: updates to domestic teams in India and Bangladesh.
• Test and ODI Championships: updated for the 2022 season.
• Changing Teams: move between domestic and international teams in a save
• Tournament Modes: play in stand-alone One Day or 20 Over World Cups. Create your own World XIs, All-Time Greats and Custom Match Series.

Complete Stats Update for the 2022 Season:
• Updated player database with over 7,000 players.
• Added home and away international player stats.
• Updated versus, ground and team records with partnerships, bowling and batting records and Fastest 50s/100s.
• Updated domestic squads for all 150 playable domestic teams.
• Updated recent series stats for all players.
• Improved compression reduces save size and save time.

Ratings and reviews

Same old same old. Doesn't seem to matter what you do in terms of aggression or where you choose to bowl at batsmen. You get exactly the same results regardless. Also introduced a very easy mode which seems harder than the easy mode of previous years. Out of the 6 free games you get I played with the county champions Warwickshire I won 1 drew 1 and lost 4 on very easy mode?! Sort it out, show me a change and I might actually spend the inflated £9.99 to purchase it

I don't think that this game has lived up to its potential. Yes its good in the sense that you get to manage cricket teams and use your knowledge of the game but the graphics are sub-standard, the commentary is poor and it's almost like even though you change the field, change batsman's aggression or the bowlers line or length you really and truly don't have much control over the game, the opponent always has the advantage.

I have been playing International Cricket captain since it started in the early 2000's. I have played with and every single game. The last few editions are fantastic in graphics, but the game play is not good. If you simply look at ODI's, if the other team scores above 300, it's basically impossible to win. This game is hughly frustrating. I have much more to say but can't fit anything in 500 characters. I'm an expert in this game as its all I play, but this is not realistic at all.

What's new

Updated database: including updated Aus domestic squads
Updated international fixtures
Updated Aus 20 Over rules
Changed priority if equal league points for Aus OD