Only the IPL itself – understandably, given how that competition's big-money focus would surely lead to eye-watering licensing fees – is missing.

after many, many patches (they patch it every week at this stage) it has improved greatly, though still is far from the 'perfect' cricket game we'd all love to have.The licensing of the game has also been extended and expanded to other geographical territories including New Zealand, West Indies and Ireland in addition to Australia and England as real names and real images of the players of respective countries can be used. It’s a credit limit that’s sits alongside your PayPal account which you can use for your online purchases. In Career mode, and indeed in any match in the game, you can opt to control the entire team, picking and controlling batsmen and bowlers and setting fields, or to control just a single player, fast-forwarding to the periods of play in which he or she is involved.

At least they showed a little resistance today but it's hardly a contest, which is i'm sure a little disappointing for all.

In the pantheon of global sports translated into videogame form, cricket has long been a poor relation. When Cricket 22 was released in December 2021, it received a somewhat lukewarm reception due to the fact that it was clearly not in a fully finished state at the time. Packing the covers, for example, will cause the AI (and human players) to stop playing shots there and putting everyone in the slips for a T20 game is probably not a wise move.