Every version, and what changed

• Captains declare like Test captains. Each weighs the overs left, how fast the side batting last scores and how long it lasts, and each misjudges it in his own way.
• Home's saved match line says which innings it is, whose side is in and the score.
• The dots-in-a-row tip no longer counts wides, and tips do not repeat after you resume a match.
• On Android TV, the remote reaches Try it myself, and the first lessons name the arrows and OK.
• Upright, the How to play card stands below the batsman instead of over him.
• The table explains when some sides played extra knockout matches, and Retire is now a clear button.
• The middle difficulty is called Even, and the meters say Confidence and Rhythm.

• On Home, the button for your next match is always on screen, with nothing to scroll.
• On a sideways phone, Play Games no longer covers the Dossier link on Home.
• New menu music, written for Innings, plays on menus only; Settings > Sound > Music turns it off.
• Fixed: the overs left in the day could show a long decimal after an innings ended mid-over.

• Nearly every screen is redesigned, including Settings, the scorecard, results, the Record, The table and Challenges.
• Android's Back now goes back one screen instead of closing the game; sideways, the tabs sit down the left.
• Quick play is now called One Test, and the scorecard names the bowler who took each wicket.
• Fixed: run outs no longer count as the bowler's wicket, and caught-and-bowled is less frequent.
• Also includes everything from 1.6.1, such as the Settings screen.

• Settings: every option in one place, from the gear on the Home screen.
• Pause is shorter, with All settings one tap away, and you never leave the match.
• On an upright phone, the aim pad now sits level with the shot buttons.
• Updated Google Play Games libraries.

• Day/night Tests with a pink ball and floodlights, in Quick play, a Career's Championship and domestic cricket.
• In a Career, a toss decides who bats first, and each side has its own captain.
• Every ground has its own stand, which turns to dusk and then night in a day/night Test.
• The crowd swells and fades, a bowled clatters, and the game goes quiet when you lock the screen.
• The game now needs Android 7.0 or later.

• A Career now has an age: choose 18 to 24, and each season is a year.
• Careers end: from 38 each season asks whether to play on, and at 40 it is over.
• The Hall of Fame keeps the great careers by name.
• The bat, stumps, pads and crowd are now real recordings, and the crowd murmur can be turned off.
• Ten more achievements, for long careers.

• Bowlers bowl a Test bowler's lengths, and aggressive batsmen go after the bad ball.
• Innings the computer plays are now settled against the captain's real field, and spinners get containing fields.
• The last over's pitch map now shows the whole over, whoever faced it.
• Sideways, Pause shows one reference at a time, and Their attack's Close button now closes.
• Dragging while your partner faces no longer shows an aim for a ball you are not facing.

• On a sideways phone, the loft and the straight drive are back within reach of your thumb.
• Less text while you play: a quiet over says nothing, and tips fade as you need them less.
• Scout the opposition: what each bowler does, where the last over pitched, and where you score.
• New shot: the reverse sweep.
• Ten new achievements, including a draw, a tie, a hundred in each innings and retirement.

• On a sideways phone, the batsman, crease lines and pitch edge no longer break up into blocks.
• The ground is drawn at your screen's own resolution, which is sharper and faster.
• The first time you open Career, Play or Challenges, a short overview explains it, once each.
• The first tab now says Career, and two more batting poses are redrawn.

• Retiring a Career now asks first, showing his record and honours, with Keep playing first.
• A farewell screen follows, and each retired batsman keeps a line in Past careers.
• Two farewell pictures: a guard of honour for a Test player, or his team-mates for the rest.
• A retired career can no longer come back from the cloud save.
• Shouldering arms has been redrawn with new boots.

• In a Career, your batting partner plays his own balls; you can no longer play them for him.
• The screen always says whose ball it is: PARTNER BATTING while he faces, YOUR STRIKE when it returns.
• Partner: Simulate bats his overs for you, and a tap skips his run of balls any time.
• Running and the Strike control are still yours, so farming the strike is a real skill.
• Every result now has its own picture.

• Pick your country from nine, each with its own domestic season and format.
• Your A tour now tours: a match against the host's XI, then three Tests on their grounds.
• The Championship is six named home and away series, with man of the series.
• A Test batting rating out of 1000, with a Play Games leaderboard that ranks it.
• The table now has three tabs and shows what you need to reach the Final.

• Quarter-finals, semi-finals and Finals are named wherever your season appears, each opening on a walk-out card.
• In a knockout, each wicket tells you what is left: runs to win and wickets in hand.
• Man of the match and man of the tournament awards are now counted on your Record.
• The Dossier and the Record no longer repeat each other.
• Five new pictures, including a hundred and losing the Final.

• The scoreboard is one band: score, overs, both batsmen, partnership and bowler, read left to right.
• The Home screen has one button that resumes your match or starts the next one.
• Your Career now has a Record, with your figures for each level you have played.
• The keeper crouches before the ball is bowled, and the umpire signals wides.
• A sideways phone now uses the sideways camera by default.

• Sideways on a phone, the match view is rebuilt, with each player sized to his distance.
• The umpire is out of the way, the bowler has a run-up, and the non-striker is off the pitch.
• The camera moves in as the bowler runs up, bringing the boundary and the stands into view.
• The ball is smaller, and the batsman no longer holds his last shot through the end of an over.

• How to play now points an arrow at each control and says what to press, where and why.
• The practice balls that stopped and waited for you are gone, so nothing freezes mid-delivery.
• The back-foot push to leg has been redrawn with a fuller body.

• The practice balls after How to play now ask for the controls you actually use.
• Fixed: the first practice ball could freeze at the bat on the Beginner controls.
• Beginner controls get a third practice ball, for aiming.
• In practice you now choose your shot before the bowler runs in, as in a match.
• How to play no longer explains the controls twice.

• How to play no longer plays a demonstration by itself, which looked as if you were batting.
• It is now four short cards over a still pitch, one idea each, for the controls you use.

• The ball leaves the bowler's hand again, instead of appearing in the air above his head.
• Nothing else changes; the controls and art are as in 1.5.2.

• The controls are rebuilt for new players, and Beginner is now the default.
• On Beginner, choose your shot first, then hold the aim circle and let go at the bat.
• Play Games has its own screen for achievements, leaderboards and cloud save, with ten new achievements.
• Challenges explain the match situation on a page before the first ball.
• Fixed: your Career shows on Home after a reinstall, and the sideways scorecard no longer overlaps itself.

• New challenge, Save the follow-on: seven down and well behind, reach the target or follow on.
• It is the first challenge that asks you to score rather than survive, with its own leaderboard.
• The express bowler, redrawn, joins the match attack and the Nets.
• Google's own Play Games badges now mark every Play Games button.

• Google Play Games arrives, with eleven achievements and leaderboards for two challenges.
• A Career leaderboard ranks runs scored at International level.
• Your Career is backed up to your Google account, so a new phone carries on where you left off.
• If two devices disagree about your Career, the game asks which one to keep.
• Includes everything from 1.4.0, including left-handed batsmen.

• Left-handed batsmen: two in your side, some in every opposition, and your Career batsman can be one.
• Right-arm bowlers come round the wicket to a left-hander, and the field swaps for left-right pairs.
• A card before the ball shows the opposition captain's field changes on a map.
• The innings break shows a summary instead of the whole scorecard.
• Dot balls no longer show a result card.

• The whole game now has a sideways layout, with its own camera and every screen redrawn to fit.
• Sideways, the scoreboard and controls sit on the grass beside the pitch, not over it.
• A new express pace bowler stands in lane 1 of the Nets.
• Mistimed lofts now land where the shot carried, instead of always being worth two.
• Tap-to-play now lets you choose the direction as well as the moment.

• A new Home screen, and every screen behind the four tabs now fits a phone without scrolling.
• The scoreboard shows the target, the partnership and the session; the scorecard lists the fall of wickets.
• How to play has an interactive lesson: the ball waits while you pull back and let go.
• Every match is dealt its own luck, and Quick play opens on Ironbark Oval.
• Also includes the first-run changes from 1.1.1: a welcome screen, a way out of the Nets, and fixes.

Built but never sent out; its welcome screen, way out of the Nets and fixes reached testers in 1.2.0.

• A full Career: seasons as tournaments, a table you can see, and promotion and relegation across four levels.
• The World Test Championship sits at the top of a Career, with a Final at the end.
• Reverse swing arrives for an old ball on a dry pitch, and each side is picked for the pitch.
• Read the seam in the bowler's hand to tell which way the ball will move.
• The timing window shows as the bowler runs in, and the ball crosses the bat at full speed.

• Challenges: survive the nightwatchman's six overs, or bat out with the last pair to save a draw.
• A new wide camera closes in as the bowler runs up; switch cameras from Pause mid-match.
• The scorecard is a real card, and Quick play, the Nets and the menu are rebuilt.
• Full television support, with a TV layout and every control reachable by remote.
• A bad ball is now worth more than a good one, and the pull is played to short balls.