What's New in Skipper

Skipper changes most weeks, usually because a tournament threw up something we could do better. This page keeps a plain-language record of what shipped, newest at the top. No jargon, just what is different and why you might care.

Version 1.30.3: Nine new stream themes, safer scoring, super over fix

15 October 2026

Live streaming

• Nine new scoreboard themes. Teal Classic, Emerald Night, Royal Angled, Sky & Coral, Corner Bug, Matchday Ribbon, Floating Capsule, Stadium LED and Neon HUD. Pick one from the overlay theme list before you go live.
• Every theme sits like the World Cup theme. The scoreboard, sponsor logos and the Skipper logo now sit in the same place on every studio theme, so nothing gets cut off at the edge of the screen. The "Powered by Skipper" logo now floats over the video instead of sitting in a box, and hides itself while squad lists and the bowling card are on screen.

Scoring

• You'll know if your phone can't save balls. If the phone's storage fills up during a match, a red banner now says that balls are not being saved, and tells you to free up space or hand scoring to another phone. Before, the app gave no sign. When you start scoring with less than 500 MB free, an amber warning appears first.
• Ending an innings is safer. All the steps of ending an innings now save together, so a problem can't leave a match stuck between innings.
• Super over results show correctly. A match decided by a super over could show the loser as winning "by 139 runs". It now reads "Match tied (Team won the Super Over)" everywhere.
• The keypad no longer gets stuck. On iPhone, picking a number from your contacts could leave the number pad stuck over the next screen. Fixed.

Tournaments

• Add an official by phone number, even if they're new to Skipper. When a number isn't on Skipper yet, type their name and tap Add as new user. This works for tournament officials, scorers and umpires.

Highlights

• Clips play in the right order. Reels and clip lists now follow the order the balls were bowled. Before, a late upload backlog could make them play backwards.
• Every clip shows. A match's full set of clips now appears in Photos & Videos, not just the newest 30.
• Undone balls are marked. If a ball was scored and then undone, its clip is tagged "Undone", and it's left out of reels by default. Milestone clips, like a fifty, now show the right ball.
• Reels turn landscape. The reel player now rotates with your phone.

Fantasy

For tournaments where the organiser has switched the fantasy game on.

• Auction tournaments use auction money. Players cost what they sold for, and your budget is your team's purse.
• Build your team pool by pool, then pick your captain at the end.
• One team for the whole tournament. Picks close when the organiser locks them or when the first match starts.
• Scores update the moment a match ends, and the notification shows your points, your best pick and your rank.

Skipper Academies

• Families hear from you straight away. When you add a student, the family now gets a welcome notification before any invoice.
• The empty home screen updates on its own once you're added to an academy. You can also pull down to refresh.
• Attendance opens 30 minutes before a session, not hours early.
• Resending a code waits 30 seconds, so parents don't get a burst of codes. A child's own number can now be changed after it's verified.

Version 1.29.0: Share your tournament, follow a team, and start your own club

8 October 2026

Tournaments

• Share your fixtures. On the tournament's Matches tab, tap "Share fixtures" to send the next match day as one image. Tap "More" to choose the matches, a date range, a round or a team, and pick a look: Poster, Ticket, Daylight or Club. Every date in the list also has its own share icon, so you can send a single day. The image has a QR code that opens live scores.
• Share your results. When the tournament is over, open the Results tab and tap "Share results". Choose what to post: the champions, the final, the awards, the points table or "Tournament in numbers". Each points table also has a "Share table" button, so you can post the standings halfway through the season too.
• Award cards for the tournament. On the Results tab, tap share on Player of the Tournament, Best Batsman, Best Bowler or Best Fielder to make a card, the same way you do for a match. On the Leaderboard tab, tap any player for theirs. The leaderboard shows player photos now.
• Saved teams. Scan a team's QR code once and Skipper keeps it for you. In your next tournament, tap Add on Manage Teams and your Saved teams and My teams come first, and you can type a name to find one. Teams from tournaments you ran before are already on the list.
• Matches still to play. In the team scenarios sheet there is a new Pending matches section with the games your team has left. "Results to watch" now lists every remaining fixture, including the ones that have no date yet.
• Schedule one round at a time. "Schedule Matches" now works round by round, so fixtures already made for the first round no longer block the next one. When you promote teams out of a league, the teams that qualified are ticked for you.
• The points table updates straight away. After a walkover or a result, the table could stay at zero until you closed the app. It now refreshes as soon as you go back to the tournament.

Matches and scoring

• Follow a team. Open any team and tap "Follow". Its matches show up on Home, and you get a notification when a match starts and when the result is in. The team page shows how many people follow it.
• The Match Report on one page. On a finished limited-overs match, tap Share and choose "Match report (image)", "Match report (PDF)" or "Match report card". The report fits on one page, like the sports page of a newspaper. The side panel shows the points table for a league game and the road to the final for a knockout. For a one-off match it shows partnerships, the fall of wickets and the head-to-head. The card is sized for WhatsApp and Instagram.
• No more slipping out of scoring. After you entered a four or a six, a quick tap could land on the score at the top and take you out of the scoring screen. That no longer happens.
• Adding players by phone. When you add a player to a squad and the number is not on Skipper yet, the app moves you to the name box once the number is complete. "Add One More" stays above the keyboard.
• Add a phone number to an email account. Under Sign-in methods, tap Add next to Phone, then enter the number and the 6-digit code. If a captain had already made a profile for you with that number, adding it can claim that profile.
• Your Form adds up. The last five average on Home did not match the one on the Form tab of your profile. Both now count the same matches the same way. The Batting and Bowling switch is easier to read on light themes.
• Current photos on the scorecard. When a player changes their profile photo, the new one shows on the scorer's phone and on finished matches.

Clubs

• Start your own club. Open the menu, tap Clubs, then tap "+" (Create a club) to start one. Anyone can make one. Clubs that Skipper has checked carry a blue tick.
• Join a club from the app. On a club's page you can register yourself or your child and upload the documents the club asks for. Staff see every registration in one list, approve it, or reject it with a reason.
• A home for every club. A club has its own Home, Matches, Tournaments, Stats and More tabs, with a Back button to return to the rest of the app. Matches can be filtered by season and by tournament. Stats has a Numbers tab and sort options such as Most 50s and Most 100s. Club stats only count what players did for the club's own teams.
• Club tournaments. Club staff can tap "+" on the Tournaments tab to create a tournament inside the club, or add one they already run, and tag it, for example "U-19". Tournaments that the club's teams entered elsewhere are listed under "Our teams played in".
• Officials can score. A club official linked to a Skipper account can now score the club's matches. Staff can be added from the Staff section with "+", by phone number or email.

Academies

• Monthly performance reports. Academy Home has a Rate tile next to Mark attendance. Coaches rate each student, one measure at a time or one student at a time, and can start from last month's ratings. Anything not tested can be marked N/A. When the report is signed and sent, parents find it on the Progress tab with charts and a PDF.
• Student ID cards. Every student has an ID card with a QR code. Open a student's profile and tap "ID card", then tap the card to show the QR full screen. "Print ID cards" on the academy hub prints them all on A4 sheets. You can pick your own student ID prefix in Edit academy.
• Remind all unpaid. On the Fees tab, one tap sends a single reminder to each family with an unpaid bill, however many bills they have. You see who will get it before you send, and when you last did it.
• Families hear about every new bill. Each new invoice is now announced to the family. Bills made overnight for fee plans go out in the morning.
• WhatsApp first, SMS as a backup. Absence messages go out by WhatsApp first, with an SMS only if the WhatsApp could not be delivered. In Edit academy you can switch on "Absent messages" so a family knows when their child was marked absent, and "Mark unmarked students absent" for anyone the coach missed.
• Your own enrolment form. Add your own questions under Student form in Edit academy. "Add student" now has a More details step for those questions, medical notes, allergies, an emergency contact and the address. You can scan or upload the signed paper form there too. If you don't collect some of these, you can hide them.
• Facilities for members only. In Edit academy, turn on "Members only" under Facilities. Visitors to your public page then see a short note and an Enquire button, while your members see the full list.
• 1:1 classes paid in cash stay booked. A class paid at the desk used to be cancelled after the hold ran out. That is fixed. Staff can also book a slot for a student and take cash, UPI or a bank transfer on the spot.
• Any sport. Tap "Other…" when choosing a sport to search for it or add your own.

Auctions

• Cancellations go through the organiser. Players can no longer withdraw from an auction themselves. To cancel, they contact the organiser, who can reject or remove them.
• Retaining a paid player keeps them paid. Retaining a player from the pool was marking some of them rejected and refunding their fee. Retained players now stay approved and paid.

Streaming

• 14 new looks for your stream. Tap the theme button on the stream screen to open the new look picker. Tap a look to preview it, then tap "Use this look" to put it on air. The new looks have their own animations for fours, sixes and wickets, and cards for each new batter and bowler.
• Better clip controls. Highlight clips and reels have proper controls now: a big play button, skip 5 seconds either way, slow motion and pinch to zoom. They no longer sit under the Android navigation buttons.
• Wicket clips start in the right place. Some wicket clips opened with the boundary from the ball before. They now start on the wicket ball.
• Told when your network slows the stream. If the phone's mobile data is being slowed, the stream screen tells you, so you can switch data mode or move to Wi-Fi.
• Fewer reconnects on Android. When Wi-Fi came back during a stream on mobile data, Android phones kept reconnecting every few seconds. The stream now reconnects only when the phone really changes network.
• "Record video locally" is hidden for now. The switch suggested a full match video would be saved to your phone, but none was kept. We have removed it until full match saving is ready.

Also in this update

• Grey text on the light themes (Daylight, Twilight and Meadow) is darker and easier to read.
• A new update screen shows what is new in each version. If an update is optional you can skip it, and a card on Home brings it back later.
• On Android, the app could act as if you were signed out and stop loading new data until you restarted it. That is fixed.
• When adding a student who has their own phone, "Send code" always goes to the number you typed. Before, it could go to the previous number.
• Download links on app.skippercricket.com/get open the right store page.
• Ground booking prices on the web console show in rupees. A ₹1,500 slot was showing as ₹15.
• A team purse too large to store now gives a clear message, not an error.

Version 1.28.0: Academies for more sports, a new auction room, and easier streaming

1 October 2026

Academies

• More than cricket. An academy can now run chess, badminton and athletics alongside cricket. You set the sport for each batch, fee plan, program and class.
• An account for every student. Every new student gets their own Skipper account. The parent's phone number is confirmed with a code, and the parent gives consent, before the student is enrolled.
• One-off charges. When you raise a one-off charge for a kit or a camp, every family on that charge is told about it.

Auctions

• A new auction room. The big screen in the hall and the live stream have a new auction room design, with 39 themes to choose from. You can change the theme while the auction is live.
• Clear for the hall and the stream. New hall dashboards, and name and price strips on the stream for the player being sold.

Streaming

• Setting up a second phone. In the scoring menu, "Stream this match" now explains how to set up a second phone as the camera.
• Internet check. "Go Live" checks your internet first and tells you clearly if the phone is not connected.

Matches and teams

• Walkovers. A walkover match can now be deleted.
• Finding a team. "Manage Teams" has a search box.

Scoring

• Scoring offline. Scoring with a weak or no network is smoother, and your balls upload on their own once you are back online.

The Skipper website

• Richer pages. Tournament, match, team and player pages on skippercricket.com now show more: team record, squad and honours, player fielding numbers, and fuller match lists. You do not need the app or a login.

Version 1.27.0: Pay for auctions and academy plans in the app, and better highlight clips

21 September 2026

Payments

• Unlock an auction in the app. Setting up an auction is free. You pay once, when you are ready to start it, with "Unlock auction". Plans go by the number of teams, and if more teams join later you can use "Add more teams".
• Academy plans. Academies get a subscription card on the Home tab. The first month is free. The card shows how many trial days are left and a "Subscribe" button. Plans go by the number of active students and are billed monthly.
• Your purchases in one place. The payments screen lists your store purchases under "Subscriptions & unlocks".

Highlights

• Wicket clips. Wicket clips now start earlier, so the run-up and the ball are in the clip.
• Fours and sixes. Four and six clips run a few seconds longer, so the rope and the celebration are in.
• Uploads that carry on. Clips upload in small pieces and carry on from where they stopped when the connection comes back. The newest clip goes first.
• Faster share videos. Share videos are now made about four times faster.

Streaming

• Full team names between matches. On a tournament stream, the cards shown between matches (standings, live now, up next and results) show full team names. The group of the match being streamed comes first.
• A clearer stream monitor. The stream monitor and "Stream history" say "No data yet" until the first reading comes in, and show when the stream was last heard from.

Tournaments and matches

• The tournament page stays put. The tournament page keeps what it was showing when you come back to the app.
• Picking a ground. When you create a match, the ground picker lists grounds even when location is off, and sorts them by distance once location is on.

The Skipper website

• A home page for organisers. The home page is rewritten for organisers, with a pricing table.
• Two new pages. Tournaments and Features.

Version 1.26.0: Share cards, tournament live streaming, and match breaks

19 September 2026

Share cards

• A card for your performance. Any player in a finished match can turn their performance into a picture card to share. Players who win a match award also get an award card.
• Starting a card. Open a finished match, go to the "Summary" tab, and tap a player. You can also open Player Insights and tap the share icon. Then choose "Share card", "Share as video" or "Share stats as text".
• Make it yours. The card opens on a full screen. Choose a "Shape": "For Status" for WhatsApp Status or Instagram Story, or "For posts & chats" for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp chats. Pick a "Design". Tap "Change photo" to use your own photo. Your whole photo is kept and nothing is cut off. Your player profile must be linked to change the photo.
• Design choices. Choose from 17 card designs, including Floodlight, Heritage Gold, Neon Telemetry, Swiss Grid, and Skipper Chronicles. Skipper Chronicles looks like a newspaper front page with a short match report about the player.
• Copy captions. Tap "Copy caption" to copy a ready caption to paste into your post.
• Paper scorecard. You can share any finished match as a printable PDF scorecard.

Live streaming

• Single tournament stream. Organisers can start one stream for an entire tournament and move between matches without ending the broadcast. The camera, zoom, and YouTube connection stay active throughout.
• Starting a stream. As a tournament owner or admin, go to the admin tab and tap "Go Live". You can stream using your phone camera or an overlay link.
• Match picker. Choosing "Auto — follow the live match" automatically switches to the live match and moves to the next game when it ends. Selecting a match yourself pauses Auto until that match finishes, while "Intermission / Break" displays a tournament banner.
• Between matches. Viewers can see tournament standings, what is live now, what is next, and match results between games. Past streams are listed under "Stream history".
• YouTube errors. If YouTube has an issue when creating or going live, the app shows a clear message saying what went wrong.
• Sponsor ads. Organisers can play sponsor videos during a stream by visiting "Stream ads" in the admin tab. Tap "Add an ad" to upload a landscape MP4 or MOV video up to 60 seconds and 100 MB, then reorder, toggle ads on or off, or tap "Remove".
• Automatic ad playback. Ads play by themselves at each over break, after a wicket, and on a loop during the innings break. Wickets are shown for 7 seconds before the ad plays, and ad audio plays on the stream.
• Ad frequency control. Open "Ad frequency" to set ad breaks between overs to off or every 1, 2, 3, or 5 overs. You can also set a minimum gap of 30, 60, 120, or 300 seconds between ads, and use the switch for "Play an ad on a wicket".

Scoring

• Match breaks. You can record breaks in every match format from "Break / Session" in the scoring menu. Options include "Drinks", "Strategic timeout", "Rain", "Bad light", "Injury", and for multi-day matches "Lunch", "Tea", "Dinner", and "Stumps (End of Day)". Additional options under "Less common" include "Wet outfield", "Floodlight failure", "Crowd trouble", and "Other".
• Resuming and viewing breaks. Tap "Resume Play" when play restarts. Viewers can see breaks live, and the scorecard includes a "Breaks" tab, or a "Sessions" tab for multi-day matches.
• Match notes. Finished matches now have a "Notes" tab. It lists the innings start and end, every 50 runs reached with overs and extras, each wicket partnership, and breaks with times in order.
• DLS results. When you finish a DLS match yourself and the scores are level with par, the result is now a "Tie". The winning margin is now measured from par. Runs or wickets now follows who batted first.
• Test match fixes. Winning by an innings now ends a Test match immediately instead of asking for another innings. Scorecards also stop showing incorrect fourth innings targets.
• Reopening walkovers. If a walkover was assigned to the wrong team, open the walkover summary screen menu and tap "Reopen match".

Tournaments

• Tournaments list. My Tournaments loads more than 20 items as you scroll. Searching also finds tournaments that have not loaded yet.
• Team selection. When you use Create Match, teams are listed from A to Z and you can search for teams by name.
• Correcting settings. You can correct overs and points after matches have started. Custom match formats will no longer reset overs to 20.
• Faster knockout finishes. Finishing a knockout match is faster now because net run rate is no longer calculated for knockout rounds.

Auctions

• Registration deadlines. Register buttons close everywhere at the deadline and show "Registration closed on" with the date. Organisers of a paid auction can tap "Extend deadline" to reopen registration.

Academies

• Add a student. Tap "Add a student" to start with a family phone number, find or create the player, and assign them to batches and a fee plan in one simple flow.
• Attendance reports. View "Attendance" reports by "Session by session", "By batch", "By weekday", "Needs attention", or "Sessions not marked". Academy owners can tap "Download PDF" to save reports.
• Pause membership. Use "Pause membership" on a student profile to set a first day away and a return date. No new fees or fee reminders are issued while paused, and billing restarts when they return.
• Extra charges. Add one-off charges for items like kit or camps under "Charges" and tap "Ask for a payment".
• Payments report. Check the "Payments" report for "Collected", "Pending", or "Overdue" status, and tap "Download PDF".
• Fee reminders. Open "Fee reminders" in the More tab to choose whether and when parents are reminded about fees. Reminders go as app notifications, and by SMS if the academy turns that on.
• Online fee payments. Paying academy fees with UPI has no extra charge. Payments made by card or netbanking add 2.5% plus GST, which is shown before you pay.

Highlights

• Better delivery clips. Clips now start from the ball before so the complete delivery is included. Clips for boundaries and wickets can last up to 30 seconds.
• Longer match highlights. Match highlights videos can now be up to 10 minutes long instead of 3 minutes.
• Media tab. The "Photos & Videos" tab lists all highlights videos, named by content such as a player's name, Sixes, Boundaries, Wickets, or Match highlights.
• Stream overlay updates. Sponsored tournaments now show their crest on stream overlays. Team crests are larger, and long team names wrap to fit without getting cut off.

DRS Cam

• Pinch to zoom. Pinch the screen to zoom reviews up to 8x while stump lines stay aligned with the zoom.
• Zoom calibration. Use the zoom buttons on the calibrate screen. If zoom changes after calibration, stump lines hide and you are asked to recalibrate.
• Review status. A stuck review displays a loading spinner. If a review fails, it shows "Playback stopped." alongside a "Retry" button.
• Clip stability. Long matches now preserve review clips from early overs. Android review clips include thumbnails, and reconnecting after a failed connection works properly.

The Skipper website

• Live scores on the web. skippercricket.com now shows live cricket. Anyone can open live, recent and finished matches with the full scorecard, overs, commentary and squads. You can also see tournament tables, fixtures, brackets and leaders, player and team pages, grounds, the leaderboard and search. You do not need the app or a login.

Also in this update

• Tapping "See all" in search loads 50 results at a time and displays "Showing X of Y".
• Chat screens no longer display a fake online status.
• Tapping a Skipper link on Android no longer opens a second copy of the app.
• Player insights no longer calculate a run rate or strike rate from only a few balls.
• After receiving a "too many requests" message during login, the app waits before asking again instead of failing repeatedly.

Version 1.25.0: New sign-up, your own wide rules, bigger tournaments

8 September 2026

Getting started

• New sign-up. When you sign up, we ask how you plan to use Skipper: to play, score and stream, run tournaments, follow your child, or coach. We then take you right there. We only ask players about their batting and bowling. If you already have an account, nothing changes.
• Find your friends. Tap Find my contacts on Skipper to see who from your phone book is on the app. You can follow them in one tap, and invite the rest using WhatsApp or SMS.
• Home screen. We removed the leaderboard strip, but the leaderboard is still there when you tap the top icon. Your tournaments are now listed above your teams, starting with the ones you opened last. The app also stops asking for your location when it opens.

Scoring

• Your own wide and no-ball rules. Some leagues give two runs for a wide, while others count a wide as a ball. You can now set both rules for a single match or a whole tournament. For one match, open Format and check under Special Rules. For a tournament, set it under Scoring rules in your tournament settings, and every match in it will follow. If you leave it alone, nothing changes. Once a match starts, these rules are locked.

Tournaments

• Up to 1024 teams. You can now run tournaments with up to 1024 teams, up from 64. Pick a number from the list or tap Custom and type your own.
• Add a match that was played outside the round. If two teams play early or hold a match not on the schedule, you can add it in. Open the round, tap the menu next to Bring a team back, and choose Add a match already played. Your points table and net run rate will update on their own.
• Points table fix. If you moved the last finished match out of a round, its points used to stay on the old table. We fixed that. A match will also not end up in a grouped round without a group anymore.
• Rain-stopped matches stay live. Matches paused for rain were showing below finished games. They now stay with the live matches until play resumes or the game is called off.
• A ground's page shows the whole day. Ground pages used to show only the ten newest fixtures, leaving out early morning matches. Now the page starts with the next match and lists everything in time order.
• Tournament pages open faster. Tournament screens now open much quicker when you tap them.

Also in this update

• Net run rate is now calculated correctly when an innings ends early. Full overs are counted, just as the rules say.
• Later innings in a Test match no longer stop at 20 overs.
• Penalty runs no longer use up a ball.
• You can bring a team back into a round. The team starts from zero, while the teams that beat it keep their points.
• DRS Cam now works on recent Samsung phones.
• The auction room updates the moment a player is sold, and displays full team names.
• A single bad ball entry no longer blocks match uploads.
• The app works better on weak mobile networks, and no longer freezes on your first tap.

Version 1.22.0: Simpler setup, and a clearer auction room

21 August 2026

Tournaments

• Starting a tournament match takes fewer taps. A tournament already knows how many overs are played, which ball is used, what the pitch is and where the game is. Skipper now fills all of that in for you and goes straight to picking your team. If something is different on the day, tap Edit and change it.
• Choose how many teams qualify from a round. You can now set how many teams go through, either from each group or overall, alongside the other round settings. You can also edit a round after creating it, including its name, which was not possible before.
• Qualification scenarios use your tournament's overs. The "what does my team need to qualify" answers were worked out as if every match were 20 overs. In a 15 over tournament that meant being asked to chase a total in more overs than the match has. It now uses your tournament's real overs.
• Fix a tournament set to two innings a side by mistake. Choosing "2 innings" when creating a tournament applied it to every match, and a match already being played could then never finish. You can now set the tournament back to one innings a side, and matches already underway are corrected too, not just the ones still to come.

Auctions

• Each tab now does one job. Players shows everyone taking part and who has paid, including players you added yourself. Pools shows each pool's price band and how many players one team may buy from it. Teams shows who each team has retained and how much money it has left to bid, rather than the purse it started with.
• A screen for each player. Which pool they are in, their base price, who bought them and for how much, and every bid that was made for them.
• A record of who changed what. Adding a player to a pool, moving them between pools, changing a base price, retaining or releasing them. All of it is now saved with the person who did it and the time, and it shows on the player's screen.
• Payment status you can trust. Someone who cancelled is no longer shown as still paying. A player whose payment failed is counted as unpaid. And if you retain a player who has already paid, Skipper tells you their fee will be refunded before you confirm.

Scoring

• Simpler scoring for box and tennis ball cricket. Box cricket has no pitch to map, so the extra details a scorer can tag are switched off for box matches, and reduced to shot type and area for tennis ball matches. Leather matches keep the full set. Change the ball or the format and the options follow. Match analysis no longer shows empty charts for details that were never collected.

Academies

• Invited coaches can accept their invitation. A coach being invited for the first time had no way to accept, because the buttons only appeared for people who already belonged to an academy.
• Marking attendance asks which batch. Coaches are now offered only the batches they actually coach, and are asked which one when they coach more than one.

Bug fixes and performance

• Corrections to a completed scorecard, such as changing who bowled an over, now update leaderboards and player profiles as well.
• Player names containing emoji are handled properly everywhere they appear.
• Watching a live stream or a replay from the scorecard works on the web.
• Pages load faster on a slow connection at the ground.
• One device with a stuck upload no longer holds up everything queued behind it.
• Scheduled background jobs no longer trip over each other, which was slowing the whole service every minute.

Version 1.21.3: Auction upgrades, and you can now take payments

4 August 2026

• Charge an entry fee for your auction. Set a fee and players pay in the app. You can see who has paid without going through your bank statement. Everyone sees the numbers first: the player sees what they pay, and you see what reaches you after our fee. If a player pulls out before you approve them, or you reject them, their money goes back on its own. Add your bank details once in Profile, under Money. Everything you have collected and everything paid out to you is listed there.
• Academies can collect fees in the app. Put a student on a fee plan, add a discount if you need to, and raise a bill. Parents pay in the app, and they get a reminder with a link that opens the bill. You can see what is paid and what is still due, and the money goes to your academy's bank account.
• A better auction room. We rebuilt the auctioneer's screen. The bid buttons now stay in one place, so nothing moves under your thumb. Teams that are bidding right now sit in their own section, and you can search for a player by name. Only one device can run the auction at a time, so a phone left signed in somewhere else cannot take over. And if you tap twice by mistake, only one bid goes in.
• A private screen for team owners. Every owner gets their own dashboard, away from the bidding. It shows the money you have left, the most you can bid right now and still afford a full squad, how many places are open, and how your squad is filling up. Keep an eye on the players you want with a watchlist. If you own more than one team, you can switch between them.
• More for the big screen. There is a light theme now, for halls where the dark one is hard to read. The purse table fits up to 32 teams. Between players, the screen shows the full team standings. The sold moment is bigger: the player first, then the SOLD stamp, and more confetti. You can also watch the live stream from inside the auction room.
• Mark your captain and owner. When you retain a player you can mark them as captain or owner. An owner who does not play can be retained without using up a place in the squad. The badges show up with the squad and in the export. The results screen now shows one team at a time, with what each player cost, their base price, and how far over base they went. There is a poster to share as well.
• Bowling limits that suit your match. The limit used to be a fifth of the innings, whatever the team size. In a 4-a-side 20 over game that left eight overs nobody could bowl. It now works off your squad size. You can also set the overs per bowler yourself when you create the match. And if a bowler gets injured or a side turns up short, the scorer can go past the limit after confirming. A bowler still cannot bowl two overs in a row.
• Undo is safer. Undoing back to an earlier ball could wipe out most of an innings in one tap. A bulk undo now removes at most seven balls at a time, and it asks you more than once before it does. Undoing a single ball works as before.
• Message the person running an auction. If you have registered for an auction and need to reach the organiser, there is now a button to start a chat with them.
• Academy changes. There is one admin role now, in place of two that did nearly the same thing, and a staff screen where you can send invites and see who has accepted. Parents and students get the full batch page. One to one coaching can be booked on real time slots. And you can filter the academy list by city, coach, year, and facilities.
• Fixes. A catch by a fielder who did not bat or bowl now shows their name on the scorecard and in the match report. Three Android crashes are fixed, including one that could close the app in the middle of a stream. Leaving the scoring screen is quicker. A Test match summary no longer shows an over count it made up. On iPhone, Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm now show up at checkout. And a fee form that sat behind the number pad, with no way to close it, now moves up.

Version 1.21.0: The auction table, and a stream you can fix from where you sit

27 July 2026

• Run your own player auction. The IPL-style auction night that every local tournament now wants to have, run properly from your phone. Set each team a purse in rupees or points, open registration so players sign themselves up, sort the pool into sets like Marquee and Batsmen, and then go under the hammer. Captains bid live from their own phones or the auctioneer calls the room, the clock extends when someone bids late, and you can award, mark unsold, undo a bid, or put a player back in the queue. Skipper also stops a team from spending itself into a corner: the maximum bid is capped at whatever still leaves enough to fill a legal squad, and a blocked team is told exactly why and up to what number it could have gone. When it is done you get the rosters, the spend, the top buy, and a CSV to send around.
• Put the auction on the big screen. There is a broadcast view built for a projector or for OBS, with the player on the block, a live bid ticker, the purse table, and a confetti card the moment someone is sold. It can render fully transparent for chroma work, carries your accent colour, logo, and sponsor slots, and you can go live to YouTube from the phone. Players whose history was imported from elsewhere now show their career numbers on the block card instead of a blank space.
• Stream health monitoring, and the camera controls in your pocket. The phone on the tripod is the phone nobody is holding, and until now the only way to fix anything was to walk to it. Skipper now tells you how much of your broadcast is actually reaching YouTube, not just that it is live, and pushes you a notification the moment delivery stalls or drops. It knows the difference between a bad network and an innings break, so a pause never reads as a failure. Some of what this saves you: the sun moves and the batsman drifts out of frame, so you recenter and zoom from the scorer's chair at the other end of the ground. The crowd behind the camera gets loud during a close chase, so you mute the mic from where you are sitting. The uplink dies at the drinks break and you find out on your phone in seconds, instead of finding out after the game that nobody saw the last ten overs. You can also change the overlay theme and size, adjust exposure, flip the camera, pause and resume, restart the stream, or stop it outright. Umpires and commentators on the match can see the health, but only the owner can touch the controls.
• Streaming that holds up at a real ground. A round of performance work on the broadcast: going live on Android no longer freezes low-end phones, a reconnect mid-broadcast no longer crashes the app, and the scorecard overlay stays on screen through a reconnect or a pull-down of the notification shade instead of vanishing. If a stream genuinely cannot get out, you are told within a few minutes that the connection is too weak, instead of watching a spinner for twenty.
• Ended the match by mistake? Undo it. A completed match can be reopened, either from the panel where the mis-tap happened or from the scorecard menu, and the last innings goes back to being in progress. You can also undo the completion of an innings on a match that is still live. Nothing is deleted, and spectators sitting on the result screen are moved back to the live game on their own.
• Change a chase target without cutting overs. Rain rules and local playing conditions do not always take overs away. The reduce-overs flow now has a revise-target-only path, so a scorer can set a new target mid-chase and leave the allocated overs exactly where they were.
• Retired hurt, handled properly. When the only batsmen left are retired hurt, tapping Select Batsman now opens the batsman selector so you can bring one back, instead of showing you the same dialog again. And a retired batsman finally reads as retired hurt on the scorecard rather than not out, with a batsman who came back to the crease correctly showing as not out again.
• Wickets that read the way a scorer would write them. A wicket now says "c & b" only when the catcher and the bowler really are the same player. Where the fielder could not be identified it honestly reads "caught b" instead of quietly crediting the bowler with the catch. Alongside that: lbw reads "lbw b", the keeper mark and the stumping symbol are back, and dismissals like timed out and obstructing the field are spelled out properly. The same wording now holds everywhere, on the scorecard, the fall of wickets, the end-of-over card, the broadcast overlay, and the match report.
• Averages and officials on the scorecard. A player who has never been dismissed shows a dash for their batting average rather than a number that made no sense. The Info tab now always lists the match officials and, in a section of their own, the scorers, so the people running the game are on the card.
• Only the right people can score. If you are not a scorer on a match, Skipper now says so up front and points you to the match creator or a tournament admin, rather than letting you score into a device that can never sync. The answer is remembered on your phone, so the check still works at a ground with no signal.
• Tournament scoring that keeps the table honest. A single fixture can no longer be flipped to four innings, which used to jam match completion and hide net run rate for the whole stage. Deleting a match now recomputes the points table and net run rate instead of leaving it counted. And completing a match in a big tournament stopped failing and needing three or four retries.
• Academies now have a page the world can see. A cricket academy can publish its own page: about, facilities, programs, achievements, a gallery, and its coaches, all written by the owner rather than guessed at by us. Nothing is invented, no ratings and no student counts, and a coach only appears after they have agreed to it from their own profile. Anyone passing by can tap Contact admin to send the academy a request, and the academy can start a chat back. The academy sees the visitor's name but never their phone number, and the visitor never sees who the owner is. Owners work these leads from a Requests inbox, and every enquiry lands in one place instead of a phone number in a WhatsApp status.
• Message people directly. You can start a chat with another Skipper player from anywhere in the app. To keep it civil, a first message to someone new waits for them to reply before you can send another, and there is a daily limit on how many new conversations you can start.
• Set the match time, and pick officials from your contacts. You can change a match's date and time before it starts, and add officials or change the scorer straight from your phone contacts, matched on the number so you never end up with a duplicate player.
• The usual work underneath: one bad offline ball no longer blocks a device's entire sync queue, the custom runs sheet rides above the keyboard instead of hiding under it, and a few screens that clipped their buttons on smaller phones now scroll. The World Cup scoreboard is the default look for streams.

Version 1.20.1: The people who make the match happen

16 July 2026

• Match officials, at last. Add the umpires, scorers, and organisers to a match and they appear on the scorecard, where they always belonged. Officials get a profile of their own too, so a season spent standing in the sun counts for something.
• Academies arrive on Skipper. A cricket academy can now run its whole operation in the app: batches and attendance, fee collection, a store, one-on-one coaching sessions, and a discovery page so players nearby can find it. The coaching side of the game finally gets the same care the playing side has had.
• Highlights, cut on your phone. The phone doing the streaming now records the match alongside the broadcast, cuts the fours, sixes, and wickets into clips once the game is done, and drops them into a Highlights feed you can share with a link.
• Streams that hold their nerve. Sharper capture quality on the broadcast, and a stream on Android that picks itself up after a camera stall or a network wobble instead of dying. The World Cup scoreboard is now the default look for Pro streams.
• A home screen that knows your matches. Home now surfaces the games you actually care about: your teams, tournaments you follow, people you play with. Live matches from your tournaments sit at the top, and a view-all handles the busy weekends when one screen is not enough.
• Share the day's fixtures as a poster. Organisers can export a tournament's schedule as one clean image per match day, ready for the group chat.
• Gully cricket gets its own leaderboard. Leaderboards now split three ways: Leather, Turf, and Gully. Tennis-ball cricket in the open is ranked against its own kind, not against the leather game.
• Hand over the keys. You can now transfer ownership of a team or a tournament to another member, for when the person who set it all up moves on.
• Quicker to open, easier to find. Home loads your matches instantly from the last visit while fresh scores arrive, ground search now looks beyond your recent grounds, and a team's match list keeps loading as you scroll instead of stopping at ten.
• The usual round of fixes underneath: results settle correctly when a match ends with an innings still open, a left-hander's wagon wheel finally plots on the correct side, match creation no longer trips over itself on a busy day, and the tournament list has stopped spinning forever.

Version 1.18.3: The little things that matter on match day

7 July 2026

• Add a team from a photo. Building a tournament and someone sends you their team's QR code? You can now add them by picking that QR straight from your photos, not just by pointing the camera at a screen.
• Put your rounds in order. Reorder a tournament's rounds before they begin, so the Group, the Playoffs, the Semis, and the Final read in the right sequence for everyone following along.
• Sort out the toss. Called it wrong? Undo the toss before the first ball, change it right from the openers screen, or fix who actually won even after the match is underway. Your score stays exactly as it is.
• A cleaner handover. When a second scorer takes over a match that has not been scored yet, Skipper now walks them straight into setting up the innings instead of stopping with a puzzling error.
• Know the moment you go offline. A clear banner now tells you the second your connection drops, so you are never scoring blind and wondering if it is saving.
• A handful of scoring and syncing fixes underneath, the kind that keep a match steady when the connection at the ground comes and goes.

Version 1.18: The long game arrives

5 July 2026

• Longer formats, done properly. Skipper now scores more than the white-ball game. Play a two-innings match, or go the full distance with a Test over several days: declarations, follow-ons, sessions and days, and an honest draw when a game runs out of time.
• Sponsors on show. Tournament organisers can add a title sponsor and supporting sponsors, and their logos turn up wherever the tournament appears: on match cards, across the live scoreboard overlay, and on the match report.
• Livestreams with more life. Every four and six lands with a bold full-screen celebration, and wickets get a moment of their own, on every scoreboard design. Streams also ride out patchy connections and pauses far more smoothly, so the broadcast keeps rolling.
• Scoring that credits the fielders. Tag the clean catch, the sharp run-out, and the diving stop at the rope, and let a piece of brilliant fielding count where it should. It all flows into the match story and the player stats, and left-hand batters are unmistakable on the field.
• A finish worth framing. Match results, champions, and the Player of the Tournament get a cleaner, richer send-off, so the big moments look the part.
• Plenty of polish across scoring, tournaments, and syncing, the kind that keeps a match steady when the connection at the ground is patchy.

Version 1.17: A sharper live scorecard

28 June 2026

• A cleaner live scorecard. The live match view was redesigned to put the score front and centre, with a clearer treatment for super overs and per-team key overs that pick out where the game turned.
• More places on the map. Added cities across new regions, including Germany, Malaysia, and more of Canada, so more players can sign up and be found where they play.
• A round of theme, streaming, and stability fixes underneath.

Version 1.16: A new look, plus a lot more

19 June 2026

• A new light theme. Skipper now has a light mode for scoring in bright sun, not just the dark one. The whole app got a cleaner, glassy new design at the same time. Switch between light and dark whenever you like.
• Leaderboards near you. You can now filter the top batters, bowlers, keepers, and teams by country, state, or district. See where you rank locally, not only against everyone at once.
• Book grounds in the app. Browse grounds, see which time slots are open, and send a booking request. The ground owner confirms or declines it, and you get a notification either way.
• Chat and support built in. Read quick answers to common questions or start a live chat with the Skipper team. You can also message other players and teams directly inside the app.
• More for your live streams. New scoreboard designs to pick from, a full-screen animation when a batter hits a four or six, and a highlights bar on your recordings so you can skip straight to the wickets and the big overs.
• Size up the opposition before the toss. A new Analysis tab breaks down any player's batting and bowling, and the scouting report gives you a simple game plan for the other side.
• Sign up from more countries. Players outside India can now register and join the same matches.
• A big batch of fixes to scoring, syncing, and notifications, the kind that keep a match steady when the connection at the ground is patchy.

Version 1.13: Find anyone in a tap, and a leaderboard worth chasing

10 June 2026

• One search box now finds everything. Start typing and Skipper pulls up players, teams, tournaments, matches, and grounds together, ranked around the cricket you actually follow. Finding a teammate, an old rival, or last week's game is a tap instead of a scroll.
• Leaderboards arrived, by city, for batters, bowlers, keepers, and teams, refreshed weekly and monthly. You can cast a vote for your Player of the Month and share a poster of whoever is sitting on top, which makes a good month feel like it counts for something.
• Bring your history with you. If you have years of cricket on another app, point Skipper at a screenshot of your record and it reads the numbers in, so your profile and your team's stats start full instead of empty. Imported figures stay clearly marked as imported.
• The end of a match looks the part. A redesigned summary leads with award cards and photographs, names a Fighter of the Match for the side that scrapped hardest, and calls out the fifties, five-fors, and other milestones from the day. New players get a friendly photo instead of a grey circle, and team sheets show every face.
• The matches list reads better at a glance. Games that are scheduled show their start time, anything live carries a stream badge, and scores update in place across the app without the cards jumping around under your thumb.
• Broadcasts got a build-up and a send-off. The overlay now runs the toss, the squads, an end-of-over card, and a result band that holds the score through the celebrations, and you can go live for a game that is about to start or one that wrapped up in the last few hours. If the overlay ever freezes it rights itself, and the highlights you stream to YouTube pick up chapter markers so viewers can jump straight to the moment.
• A handful of others worth knowing: you can suspend a match that has to stop for the day and pick it up later, a super over no longer ends the game after the first innings, sign-in is smoother, and live updates hold steady when a big crowd is watching.

Version 1.12: Tournaments that read right, alerts worth reading

1 June 2026

• The points table got honest and tidy. A team that has not played a match is never shown as already qualified, the table leads with the group your match is in, and tapping a side still spells out exactly what it needs to go through.
• Running a group stage is easier. Add, move, or remove teams from a group as plans change, with sensible guards once matches have been played.
• Match alerts grew up. No more double notifications, the result reads the way you would say it out loud, "won by 55 runs" or "won by 6 wickets", and the alert carries the team's badge.
• A few scoring touches from the scorer's table: lengthen the overs in the first innings if the format changes on the day, a caught-and-bowled off the keeper now reads correctly, and a plain zero finally looks like a zero instead of an eight.
• Squad work is quicker. Skipper can suggest your last XI when you pick a side, your recent matches sit a tap away, and adding a ground midway through setting up a match no longer sends you back to the start.
• Steadier under the hood. Sign-in is smoother for new users, live scores hold up when a lot of people are watching at once, and we fixed a crash that hit some Android phones.

Version 1.11: Qualification scenarios that actually answer the question

22 May 2026

• Tap any team in a tournament points table and Skipper now tells you exactly what it needs to qualify. "Win and you're through," or "restrict them to 95," or the precise net run rate you have to chase down. We rebuilt the engine behind it to be honest about close calls instead of hand-waving them.
• We then spent the following week sharpening the wording, based on what real organisers told us during live tournaments. Less guesswork, fewer arguments at the scorer's table.
• Streaming got tougher under the hood. If the camera stalls mid-broadcast, Skipper now recovers on its own instead of dropping the stream.

Version 1.10: Group standings, scoring touches, and age-group sign-up

21 May 2026

• Group-stage tournaments now keep each group's standings straight.
• Two handy scoring touches: you can mark a Hit Wicket as a wide, and mark a Hit-the-Ball-Twice as a no-ball.
• Date of birth is now part of sign-up, which is what makes age-group tournaments (Under-14, Under-19, and the rest) possible.
• Fixed a curve at the edge of the picture on some Android phones during streaming.

Version 1.9: Pro streaming arrives, tournaments get faster

18 May 2026

• Pro Streaming. On top of the phone streaming Skipper has always had, you can now pipe the live scoreboard overlay straight into OBS, vMix, or Prism Live Studio, for a full broadcast setup with your own cameras.
• The Go Live button now shows for everyone, with a clear explainer on how to get streaming access.
• On Android, a stream now keeps running even when you switch away from the app.
• Tournament leaderboards and dashboards load noticeably quicker.
• Players are added to the squad automatically when they are picked in a match XI.
• iOS push notifications now arrive reliably, including while the app is open.
• A round of scoring and sync fixes, including keeping the live feed alive when you leave and return to a screen.

Version 1.8: A new website and scoring polish

15 May 2026

• A fresh Skipper website, built to do the app justice.
• The DLS par score now shows on every chase, so you always know where a rain-hit game stands, and the Broadcast scoreboard theme is the default look.
• A long list of reliability fixes for scoring and sync, the kind that keep a match honest when the connection is patchy.

Version 1.7: Built for the big matches

7 May 2026

• Behind-the-scenes server work so high-scoring, heavily-tracked matches sync smoothly without running into limits.

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