Cricket 26 - Megathread

How do you raise a ticket mate?

Fill out the form in submit a ticket. They are pretty decent at getting back to you in a few days.

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Thanks which copy of Afghanistan have you downloaded. If from Academy which version. Thanks for your help

Feels like sliders not working properly. I tried with 0 value still Ai hit sixes. Still lofted shots are overpowered. Need to fix

When i download game i get this error messages when game is ibstalled. Has snyone had this issue and can you advise how to get rid of it

Just wanted to start off by saying I am really enjoying playing this game. I am really impressed by the number of bowling animations added to the game. However, I think you need to have another look at the assigned batting animations and non-authentic bowling animations. For example, Joe Roots animation looks nothing like him and actually the classic animation that he used to have is a much better fit. This goes for a lot of other players and can feel annoying to use especially with some of the new animations not feeling very solid. Also a few of the bowling animations are wrongly selected. Sam Curran could definitely do with a change and I don’t like how many players use Lyon’s style.

No problem, hope you get it sorted

I downloaded Afghanistan and most of my teams from Wasteyouryouth and used them as a base.

He’s really good, does teams, playfaces, stadiums and bats.

Yeah my Afghanistan team is a wasteyouryouth team. I think my game has a download issue as in main menu i get error nessage. Downloaded 3 times

Not had that issue, maybe do another ticket.

Academy is not very stable, very hit and miss.

Just wanted to add some updated thoughts after the latest patches.

Batting has definitely seen a significant improvement, which is great to see. The AI is finally showing a bit more intent and variety, so credit where it’s due.

But bowling still doesn’t feel good, rewarding, or fun, and the biggest issue remains unchanged:

I’m still getting around three caught‑and‑bowled dismissals per match. It’s way too frequent and completely breaks immersion. In real cricket, you might see one every few games — not multiple every innings.

The problem is that it makes wicket‑taking feel scripted rather than earned. Even when you set up a batter well, the dismissal ends up being the same soft push straight back to the bowler. It removes the satisfaction of building pressure, forcing mistakes, or using skill attributes to create genuine chances.

Right now, bowling feels like it’s stuck in a loop, and the variety of dismissals just isn’t there. It would be great to see- A big reduction in caught‑and‑bowled frequency

- More realistic mis‑timed shots to different fielders

- Edges, nicks, and genuine wicket‑taking deliveries coming back into play

- AI batter attributes actually influencing outcomes again

The game is moving in the right direction with batting, but bowling still needs attention.

Anyone else still seeing the same patterns?

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Right now virtually every team I play tests against in Management mode pick 9 or 10 dedicated batsmen and only have 1 or 2 bowlers with ratings over 50. Is there any way to remedy this? I’ve seen this AI selection issue impact other users on stream so I don’t know how this isn’t unanimously agreed to be the most problematic issue with this game and top priority to be fixed right now.

I don’t care about gameplay fixes if when you play AI the game doesn’t work! It all counts for nothing.

Please people stop requesting actual gameplay fixes on this forum, when this blatant hole in the game remains unaddressed and needs to be fixed before anything else.

Big ant just let us pick opposition sides in career/management mode like all prior cricket games.

Spot on, bowling feels largely scripted & one thing that I would like to add is top edges from AI shouldn’t always go over the keeper for boundaries, some should go straight up or within the field to make it a catching opportunity, caught & bowled happens way too frequently, LBW & edges to slip should happen more

Another thing I would like to have is batters to be more expressive reacting to the ball, it’s beautiful the way they react to yorkers, the new defense animation to yorker is very good, but they don’t react to bouncers or ball staying low or change of pace, like fending the bouncer or taking hand of the bat if ball suddenly rises up of length or crouching when ball stays low, playing the shot early & missing the slower full ball/yorker.

Injuries are major missing here, for batters getting injured & walking away if ball hits the glove or body. For Bowlers getting injured, seamer stopping mid way through his run-up clutching his hamstring or shoulder, walking gingerly having a bruised heel, spinner maybe finger dislocation while trying tough caught & bowled. Fielder getting injured while diving hurting shoulder, back or knee, cutscene for physio checking/nursing the injury & player walking off the field would be really good

Hope such animations get added to the game in future, so that game would reflect more realism

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I co sign this my thoughts exactly….

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Has the ability to add and remove players been taken away again as I’m not able to add players unless I remove some but the option to remove isn’t there anymore

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Why are community filters not working properly, it shows whole list despite setting max age

And AI stumping is still not fixed, the keeper keeps throwing the ball to the bowler, when there’s a clear stumping chance

fielding still broken AI fielders just standing still at times

What is with proficiency limitations, can’t go beyond 10 batting points for a batter, forcing 21 bowling points for a batter? How does that even make sense

Absolute joke

@MattW What gray nicholl bats were added because don’t think there was? Can see a new Keeley bat though?

Also the new update faces, is there a list.

Can see shardul thakur hair has been fixed, but nikil chaudhary has the same problem with his beard glistening!

Can I ask what’s the point in saying we can edit teams apart from with licensing which we can’t. But then all of a sudden it’s back to square one where we can’t edit teams

when i am trying to add players to worldchampionship for India, after clicking on Add player it is again showing Afghanistan team and afghanistan players are adding to India :slight_smile: . Is that the case with you all also?