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Innings: Test Cricket · Android & Android TV

A Test cricket game, one ball at a time.

Innings is a cricket batting game for Android built around the long format: one batsman, five days, and every ball a decision. Read the length and the line, pick your shot, and time it — while the captain moves his field to wherever you just scored. It plays offline, with no ads and no purchases.

Get it on Google Play What is in it

Out now on Google Play, free, for Android phones and Android TV.

A batsman plays a stroke through the off side as the timing meter reads MIDDLED, on day one of a Test.
Time it, and it is middled
A wicket falls, with the partnership on the scoreboard and overs left in the morning session.
Every wicket is a story
The World Test Championship table: nine sides ranked on percentage of points, the top two to play the Final.
The Championship table
A batsman's career record, with his average, the career ladder and recent form.
Your career record
Choosing a ground, with a pitch report for a dry turner.
Six grounds, each its own pitch
The training net, with the ball in the air on its way to the batsman.
The nets

Test cricket the way it is meant to be played

Most cricket games on a phone are built for T20: a six every ball and a match in five minutes. Innings is the other game. You bat, and the rest of the match is played for you. The bowlers read the pitch and the weather, the captain sets traps, and a good ball is a good ball whether it is the first over of the morning or the last before stumps. Survive the new ball, build an innings, and cash in when the bowlers tire and the pitch wears.

Read the ball

Pace, swing, seam, off spin and leg spin. The seam is canted the way the ball will move, and from the bounce to the bat is under a third of a second — so you read it early or not at all.

Pick the stroke

Defend, attack or loft, then the shot: straight drive, cover drive, on drive, square cut, upper cut, pull, sweep, flick and more. The wrong shot to the wrong ball edges, as it should.

A captain who answers back

Score through cover and a fielder goes to cover. Bowlers aim where they can get you out, and the side you face is picked for the pitch.

Pitches that change

Six grounds — Riverside, Ironbark Oval, Red Earth, The Flats, The Maidan and Kiln Oval: green and damp, hard and fast, dry and turning. Day four does not play like day one, and an old ball on a bare pitch starts to reverse.

A cricket career, from Class A to a Test cap

Create your batsman and play for any of nine countries. The career has four rungs — Class A, the domestic game, an A tour, then the Test side — and you are ranked against every other batsman in the competition on runs. Only two go up from each level, so a good average is not enough: somebody has to have made fewer runs than you.

At the top is a World Test Championship: fifteen Tests against eight other nations, ranked on the percentage of points won, and the top two play a Final.

Quick play, challenges and the nets

Play a single Test in quick play. Take on a challenge — The last pair, The nightwatchman, Save the follow-on — where the match is set and the situation is yours to get out of. Or go to the training net, set the bowler, the length and the line, and practise one thing at a time. Between overs there is a recap, a wagon wheel and a full scorecard.

An offline cricket game with no ads

Play it on your phone or your television

On a phone: tap to bowl, swipe up to loft, swipe down to defend, and swipe toward the shot you want to play it along the ground. On Android TV, the arrows choose intent and stroke and Enter plays, with a remote or a gamepad.

Play new versions first

Innings is out on Google Play, and it is still being made. Join the testers and new versions reach you before everyone else — tell us what you find, and it goes into the next one.

Get it on Google Play Join the testers

Questions

Is Innings free?

Yes. No ads and no in-app purchases, and nothing is locked behind a payment.

Does it work offline?

Yes. It asks for no internet permission. Google Play Games sign-in is optional.

Is it on iPhone?

Not yet. Innings is for Android phones and Android TV.

Can I bowl?

No — Innings is a batting game. You bat; the bowlers, the field and the other batsmen are played for you.

How big is the download?

Under 50 MB.

What does it collect?

Nothing reaches LeafSoft. See the Innings privacy policy.

Innings: Test Cricket is made by one developer at LeafSoft. For Android and Android TV, package online.leafsoft.innings. Write to admin@leafsoft.online. Clips and updates are on Instagram at @playinnings.