https://stumpedcricket.app/notes.html 2026-11-08T12:00:00Z Sφnny https://stumpedcricket.app/note-2026-11-online-and-faces.html 2026-11-08T12:00:00Z

Play a friend or a stranger online, ranked or not. New shirts with names and numbers. Faces built from a photo.

<h2>Online</h2> <ul> <li>Play online: a friend by room code or invite link, or a quick match against anyone. Super Over, T5 or T10.</li> <li>Live 1v1 for the Ladder (T10) and the Weekend Series (T20): ranked, with your Ranked XI.</li> <li>Matches run directly between the two players' games, so there's less delay.</li> <li>Online goes up to T20. Leaving a match under way costs coins; leaving often keeps you out for a day or two.</li> </ul> <h2>Kits</h2> <ul> <li>New shirts: the side's name across the chest, a big motif of its own, and the player's name and number on the back.</li> <li>Trousers in the side's colour.</li> </ul> <h2>Faces and looks</h2> <ul> <li>My Career: make your player's face from a photo. It's read on your device and never saved or sent.</li> <li>Every player's face now starts from a real face's proportions, matched to his country and skin.</li> <li>Twelve haircuts, from a buzz to an afro, dreadlocks and cornrows. Beards and stubble look like growth, not paint.</li> </ul> <h2>Smaller fixes</h2> <ul> <li>Stumps break where the ball hits them, and the bails fly.</li> <li>A caught or held ball sits in the palm, and the fingers close round it.</li> <li>Frame rate is 60 or 30, steady on high-refresh screens.</li> <li>New menu music.</li> </ul> <p>Sφnny</p> https://stumpedcricket.app/note-2026-11-squads-and-market.html 2026-11-08T12:00:00Z

Your Ranked XI on a squad screen of cards, with reserves, chemistry and roles. Buy and sell players with other managers.

<h2>Ranked XI</h2> <ul> <li>A new squad screen: your XI as cards in batting order. Tap a card, then another, to swap them.</li> <li>Five reserves, for sixteen in the squad. Swap them in and out of the XI the same way. They don't count against the cap.</li> <li>Save three squads and choose the one in play.</li> <li>Roles: the captain, the keeper and two bowlers saved for the death.</li> <li>Chemistry: team-mates from the same country or league side lift the whole side, by one point on every rating at 22 and two at 30.</li> </ul> <h2>Market</h2> <ul> <li>List your players for other managers to buy, or buy theirs. You set the price, within a range for the player. The market keeps 5%.</li> <li>The league market stays as it was.</li> </ul> <h2>Smaller changes</h2> <ul> <li>Ladder matchmaking finds an opponent sooner: every side is under the same cap, so any match is even.</li> <li>The home screen shows strokes, a batter bowled, a four and a six from high over the ground.</li> <li>Kits closer to the concept sheets.</li> <li>A bowler's economy on his card was wrong. Fixed.</li> </ul> <p>Sφnny</p> https://stumpedcricket.app/note-2026-11-name-and-nets.html 2026-11-06T12:00:00Z

The game is called Stumped: Ultimate Cricket 27. Short balls now get up, every batter can try the scoop, and no two grounds look alike.

<p>The game is called <b>Stumped: Ultimate Cricket 27</b>. Each edition runs September to August, and your My Career player carries over.</p> <h2>Batting</h2> <ul> <li>Short balls get up: six metres short reaches the stumps' top, ten the chest, eleven the helmet.</li> <li>Shots answer the ball's height and length. Drive a short ball and the game tells you.</li> <li>No special-shot button. Any batter may play a scoop, ramp, reverse sweep or helicopter when the ball invites it, as well as his rating for that shot allows. Journeys and Pathways raise those ratings.</li> </ul> <h2>Grounds</h2> <ul> <li>Four to six separate stands per ground, in different heights and styles, with grass banks and trees at the smaller ones.</li> </ul> <h2>Smaller fixes</h2> <ul> <li>Normal's timing window is wider. The old Normal is the new Hard.</li> <li>Stats and rewards count only for finished matches.</li> <li>Result-screen buttons wait a moment, so a stray tap can't restart a match.</li> </ul> <p>Next: touch controls, then testing on more phones before the stores.</p> <p>Sφnny</p> https://stumpedcricket.app/note-2026-11-04-bat-meets-ball.html 2026-11-04T12:00:00Z

The bat is now a physical object. Where the ball meets the blade decides the shot, so no two are the same.

<h2>Batting</h2> <ul> <li>Where the ball meets the blade is decided as you start the swing: the middle, the toe, the shoulder or an edge.</li> <li>Off the middle it flies; off the toe the bat twists in your hands; off an edge it goes where the edge sends it.</li> <li>Pads, bodies, fielders and umpires all stop the ball. The computer's batters bat by the same rules.</li> </ul> <p>Sφnny</p> https://stumpedcricket.app/note-2026-10-29-pitches.html 2026-10-29T12:00:00Z

Every ground has its own square and its own way of playing. Pitches wear, spinners find rough, and dew comes in at night.

<h2>Pitches</h2> <ul> <li>Each ground has its own square, based on how real grounds in its country play: pace and bounce, or turn.</li> <li>Pitches wear over a match. Spinners get rough outside the batter's stumps, and dew makes the ball slippery at night.</li> <li>Tests and white-ball matches get different preparations.</li> </ul> <h2>Leagues</h2> <ul> <li>Four domestic franchise leagues and a champions cup, each with its own grounds.</li> </ul> <p>Sφnny</p> https://stumpedcricket.app/note-2026-10-27-two-players.html 2026-10-27T12:00:00Z

Play a friend on one screen. New console-style menus, a ring that shows the length early, and difficulty that changes how the computer plays.

<h2>Play</h2> <ul> <li>Two players on one device: two controllers, a split keyboard or two thumbs on a tablet.</li> <li>A ring closes on the spot where the ball will pitch, so you can read the length early.</li> <li>Difficulty now changes how the computer bowls, bats and sets its field, not just your timing.</li> </ul> <h2>Menus</h2> <ul> <li>New Settings, pause menu, team sheet and result screen, made for a controller as much as a finger.</li> </ul> <p>Sφnny</p> https://stumpedcricket.app/note-2026-10-24-tests-and-regions.html 2026-10-24T12:00:00Z

Five-day Tests, Test series and first-class cricket in My Career. Every nation has home regions.

<h2>Tests</h2> <ul> <li>Two innings a side over five days, played in full or in Phases (the key spells, with the rest simulated).</li> <li>Test series, and first-class cricket in My Career.</li> </ul> <h2>Careers</h2> <ul> <li>Every nation has home regions with their own leagues and calendar. Your player starts in one.</li> <li>Stats are kept by format: T20, List A, first-class and internationals.</li> </ul> <p>Sφnny</p> https://stumpedcricket.app/note-2026-10-18-new-players.html 2026-10-18T12:00:00Z

Every player has a new body and moves with a full set of motion-captured cricket animations.

<h2>Players</h2> <ul> <li>A new body for every player, umpire and keeper, with real kit: helmets, pads, gloves and shades.</li> <li>Motion-captured batting, bowling, keeping, fielding and umpiring. Old hand-made animations are gone.</li> <li>The ball bounces off the pitch the way it should, and the boundary has a modern rope and boards.</li> </ul> <p>Sφnny</p>