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 1.20.1: The people who make the match happen
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Behind-the-scenes server work so high-scoring, heavily-tracked matches sync smoothly without running into limits.
Older versions predate this page. From here on, every release worth noting will show up here.