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Huge thank you to our friends at InsertCoins.press for the articles they have written about Cricket Management 26!

Not only does it give advice on choosing where your save starts, but also gives a valuable insight into squad building, developing players in your academy, player & staff recruitment and managing your finances!

Thanks again to InsertCoins.press for taking the time to write the article - it is greatly appreciated!

https://insertcoins.press/en/articles/cricket-management-26-guide

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Today we focus on the Staff & Job Markets in Cricket Management 26!

The first screenshot shows the staff within your club currently. Each member of staff no only has a role, but also has a specialism. They also come with an overall rating and potential, just like the players. In addition to this, every coach comes with their own salary and contract. Salary & contract is affected by their overall rating and the job role that they are currently in.

Screenshot 2 shows the Staff Market. Unhappy with your current staff or lack certain skills among them? Get some new faces in! These come with several filters, such as showing 'Free Agents only' which can be selected by checking the box at the top. There is also a drop down that allows you to easily navigate between the role that you are looking to add! Clicking on a staff member will then open up their profile, showing a breakdown of their attributes, so that you can best choose the correct staff member for your team!

Finally, screenshot 3 shows the Job Market element of Cricket Management 26. I felt it was important that there was a realistic Job Security element in the game. Perform well, and you put yourself in the running for a more prestigious job. Perform badly, and you could face the sack! Once a job becomes available, you are able to apply for it. If the club/country thinks you may be a good fit, you will be invited for a job interview, where you will be tasked with answering questions to find out if you are the right person for the job!

To add to the depth, let's say you are with Lancashire in the England domestic league. You are performing well, but want to try out another competition, but also you're quite happy at Lancashire. Firstly, you can apply for a role in let's say the India franchise league and you happen to smash the interview and be successful. As the India Franchise league overlaps slightly with the start of the England domestic season, you cannot be in two places at once! You are able to ask your England domestic team whether they will grant you leave to be able to coach in that competition!

If you don't like the English winter, why not go and get some sun by coaching in Australia! All of this is possible in Cricket Management 26!

Hi All!

Today I was hoping to bring release to another platform - Android! However, unfortunately release has had to be delayed for the time being! Game is ready to go, just waiting to hear back from Google. There seems to be a lot of hoops to jump through, as there was with Steam, and rightly so, but this does mean that I have been slowed down by admin slightly!

Will keep you informed regarding this. As soon as I hear back from Google, I will inform you. I apologise massively for this as I was really hoping we could push this through today, but on the other hand, at least we are very close to being able to finally publish!

On a more positive note, another update has gone out recently and its an exciting one!

As requested by a couple of people - South Africa Domestic scene is now fully integrated into Cricket Management 26!

I did not know much about the Domestic scene over there, so really enjoyed learning about the teams, format and history behind it! Control the finances, upgrade the facilities and make every decision matter! Develop the next SA superstar from your domestic academy! Perform well and they will get a call up to the youth national side. Perform well in this and they will be knocking on the door for the full national team!

We're now up to over 20 playable domestic competitions, in 9 different nations, to go alongside our 64 playable international teams!

Disappointed to not have released Android today but we are SO close!! Apologies again for those that expected it today - gutted that we couldn't get it out!

Much more to come this week as we continue to add improvements to Cricket Management 26!

Thanks for the support!

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Sometimes you get positive reviews, sometimes you get negative reviews - all are massively important!

This one I'd like to share is a very positive one from Michael. Michael has just hit 400 hours of play on Cricket Management 26 - it would be fair to say he knows the game inside out! I never thought anyone would ever get close to playing a game that I have created for this long! Obviously I hoped people would play it, but never expected to be seeing 400+ hours!

Great to see Cricket Management 26 continue to grow and to hear that people are enjoying playing it - truly humbled!

Thanks to those who have played the game and for those who have taken the time to write a positive review - it is all greatly appreciated!

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Hi All,

Pleased with how release went earlier in the week! A lot of positives to continue building upon

Some minor bug fixes provided today, along with an 'Auto Reject' button added when certain staff members are approached by another team.

Attention over the weekend will now turn to Android release which is on course to be released on Sunday 4th October!

Thanks to those who continue to play the game and those who have purchased recently! If you are new here, thanks for your interest in Cricket Management 26 - many more exciting updates and features to come!

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Hi All!

Was determined to get the next update out this evening - better late than never!

An incredibly busy week and weekend has made for a very challenging task when trying to update!

So many bugs fixed, but still room for improvement. Super thankful for James & Michael for their work with the bugs and suggestions - truly blown away by the support I have had from them!

Excited to expand to 64 playable International teams! Really want to have a bit of everything in the game for everybody. Quite intrigued to see a successful long-term save where a country like Japan is playing test cricket haha!

World Story Engine hopefully adds a bit more realism and a narrative around saves. Career Arc was implemented previously but it was pretty poor, it now has its own dedicated system. Scouting now actually feels a bit more like scouting with the introduction of assignments.

Also quite like the idea of strategic finances and giving more control over items such as ticket pricing etc.

Less busy this week, so hopefully plenty more bug fixes from this patch and some other ideas of features to add in too!

If you do play, hope you enjoy and have an amazing week!

Hi All,

Very busy week from a personal point of view! In the upcoming update, which will be Sunday/Monday Evening, bug fixes have been prioritised so hopefully we will continue improving game stability!

Few new features that include further international expansion, the implementation of a world story engine and strategic finances so you’re able to set things such as ticket prices.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused with no update earlier in the weekend!

Huge thanks to those who are continuing to play and enjoy the game! Really pleased to see that the median play time continues to rise, and now sits at almost 1 hour 20 minutes, showing a huge increase in the stability!

Also still massively grateful for the continued support around reporting bug fixes and providing suggestions! It really helps contribute to improve the game!

Always been a massive management sim and cricket fan so really hoping people continue to enjoy it and build on the incredible amount of progress that we have made so far!

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Hi All,

New Update going live any time now - Patch Update information available over on Steam!

Just thought I'd share a screenshot of something that I have been working on that is in the update. Its not finished, but this is the facilities page. There are 6 different types of facilities for you to manage in Cricket Management 26, with 3 being shown just here.

Each facility has an impact on your club/nation. Let the condition of your facilities drop too low and you'll need to refurbish. Manage the club well and perform, and you will see your club grow as the game goes on!

Many other features have had an upgrade too, you'll see a few visual improvements on training, match preview and the toss screen.

15 Bug & QoL fixes provided in this update. Non were game breaking which shows just how far this game has come over the past 5 weeks!

Cricket Management 26 continues to go from strength to strength, and a lot of this is down to those of you who have providing such a high quality level of bug reporting. As always, if you see an issue - tell me! Also very humbled to hear that one player is closing in on 200 hours of game play which is unbelievable stuff. Never thought when I created it that someone would play it for that amount of time!

For those of you that are new here, if you are a fan of in-depth, sports management sims, where you get to control several aspects of your club/nation this could be for you! Choose from a continually expanding 32 International teams, plus domestic cricket in 9 different nations!

In EA right now, but not massively far away from full release as the game continues to become more stable.

For the Android guys out there - I cannot put a date on it yet, but I will try over the coming weeks to see if I can get the job done for you guys! Extremely sorry for it not being released yet. PC version was always my priority, but now that is becoming more and more stable, I can turn more attention to Android, which I'm very much looking forward to actually!

Thanks for the support and feedback (good or bad!)

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Hi All!

Back with another update!

In terms of new features, 12 more International teams have been added to the game, taking us up to a total of 32!

I have also began adding player faces, which can be found on player profiles and in-game match engine. This is very much a work in progress to see if it all works effectively before adding lots more over the weekend.

Plenty of QoL and bug fixes have been implemented and no doubt there will be much more to come!

We have been pretty stable over the past couple of weeks or so, but still plenty to improve upon and bugs to be fixed.

The weekend will mark one month since the game has been released. Enormous amount of progress, but still a long way to go!

I have now returned to my day job, which means that although I can continue to put the hours in during the evening, it is not sustainable for me to do multiple updates per week. Therefore, I have decided to do updates on Wednesday's and Sunday's moving forwards! Hopefully one day this will continue to grow so that I am able to spend much more time on it, but we'll see, still a mile off from that!

Thanks to everyone for making me aware of bugs, QoL improvements and general suggestions - this has been a huge reason as to why the game has improved so much over the past month!

Hi All,

Was planning on doing a patch release yesterday and today, however, due to a very low number of bugs being reported, I’ve decided to put a few days into releasing a more substantial update!

Still obviously a lot to iron out and perfect, but things are a lot more stable than they were 3 weeks ago!

For those that may be thinking it’s Android release being announced, unfortunately it is not! But that’s not far away at all now to be honest!

Enjoying the journey, can’t believe next Wednesday will mark 1 month from EA release! A lot of hours gone in, but still loving it. It genuinely makes me so happy to hear that people see the potential in the game and are enjoying it!

The game will continue to improve, thanks to your bug reports and suggestions!

Looking forward to keep growing Cricket Management 26!

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Hi All!

Firstly, its great to be back to these more regular updates. The game has a lot of potential and I'm keen to keep progressing it so that we do not stagnate!

My target when I woke up this morning was to provide 2 patch updates today. I managed this one early on today, but have decided not to do another one tonight! This could be looked at as a positive, as far less bugs are actually being reported - which is great! Still plenty lingering about, but the best thing you guys can do is to keep reporting!

Instead of doing the second patch update, thought I'd begin working on some more exciting stuff. Obviously very excited to announce about Steam Deck over the next couple of days and unfortunately after yesterday's slog, I could not mentally put any more time into Android today, but what I have done is begin to put things in place for league expansions.

Let me know if there's any domestic leagues you'd like to see in the game next! Likely to only be T20 initially as its a lot less time consuming!

Next patch update to come tomorrow for any more bugs that do crop up! So tomorrow will be working on bug fixes, patch update, Android, league expansion basically!

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Hi All,

Very minimal updates today, despite putting a good 9 hours into today!

The first couple of hours was spent trying to make Steam Deck more stable with a couple of upgrades. Once this was sorted, fixed a bug around the franchise rules.

The rest of the day, which I'm quite excited to share is that I've made massive progress in making the game available for Android users. The aim is to release on Android before the end of the month. After PC, Android has probably been the most requested, so looking forward to bringing it to those who use it!

Apologies to the Windows users as I feel I've neglected you a bit with this update haha! It looks like I've barely done anything all day, but I have been non-stop! Android was a bigger job than what I expected.

I have, once again, risked the stability of the game by doing all of the Android work today, so apologies if its not as stable as it previously was!

Unlikely to be any big features over the next few days as I prioritise Steam Deck & Android release. There will be bug fixes though, and I will try to implement suggestions where possible!

As always, any issues, please do let me know!

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Hi All,

Again, apologies for the inconsistency in patch updates over the past few days. Was on holiday for a few days, so only had time to fix the odd thing here and there. If I've not replied or if I've missed anything, please do remind me and I will fix/add to the game!

This update is quite a small one as bugs are beginning to become less frequent and less severe on the whole. Had a big issue last week with launching the game, but minus that, I like to think its pretty stable!

No more PC issues or holiday so should be full steam ahead now!

Few things to iron out, then I'll have a think about what else we can be adding! Maybe some new leagues/nations coming soon!

Keep letting me know any suggestions and bugs as its really helping.

Thanks to those for the support and kind words - it is really appreciated. This is something I am doing for the first time, alongside my full-time job and I never realised how much work it would be! Despite this, loving every minute of it. Makes my day hearing that people are enjoying the game and makes all the time being put into it worthwhile! I will not be able to fix everything, every day, and the game still has so far to go to get it to the level I want it to be at, but with the support I'm getting from a lot of you guys, I know we'll get there!!