Bat Bonkers

Pick where to hit on the field map, choose along the ground or in the air, and time your swing as the ball arrives. Your batter plays 17 real strokes, from cover drives, pulls and cuts to sweeps, scoops and the helicopter. Hit it over the far wall for SIX, but watch out: break a window, lose the ball on a roof or get caught on the full, and you’re out under gully rules.

Features

• Quick Play: pick the ground and the overs (1 to 20); a rival team puts up a total that gets bigger as your players’ ratings and your win record improve, and you chase it
• Match vs AI: pick your team, call the toss, bat first or field first. Formats: 1 to 10 overs, T20, ODI (50 overs) and TEST (two innings each, declare, win by an innings), all out or 1-5 wickets. You always bat; the rival’s innings is played out automatically ball by ball from both teams’ player stats. Their bowlers learn how you bat and set the field
• Tournaments with your team (up to T20 and ODI 50-over fixtures): points table, a final, other fixtures simulated ball by ball, and tournament stats (top run-scorers, wicket-takers, sixes); you only ever play as your own team: every rival and every other tournament fixture is automatic
• Pick the ground before every game, 10 places: gully lane, home aangan (3 a side), motor garage, rooftop, society parking, khet (farm), beach, village maidan, railway ground and the local stadium (11 a side). The size of the place decides how many play
• Turn the house rules on or off: window = out, roof = out, six and out, no runs behind, LBW and more (catches always follow the real law: on the full only)
• Run between the wickets, beat the fielders’ throws and survive run-outs
• Crazy bats from cheap to very expensive: Mummy’s Belan, Lollipop Bat, Boat Oar, Baseball Bat, Hockey Stick, Bajrang Gada, Golden Bat, Rainbow Thunder Bat and real cricket bats (better bats hit a little harder)
• Ball designs: taped tennis ball, red, white and pink leather, mini football, watermelon, rainbow, fireball and golden ball
• Build your village: rename players and dress them up from the store (shirts, shorts, shoes, caps, bats and balls)
• Player skills that level up, daily challenges with a streak, 15 trophies and a leaderboard
• Morning, evening and night games, monsoon rain, dusty and green pitches, 5 camera angles
• No commentary, just the ground: kids shouting and appealing in the gullies, a roaring crowd, claps, whistles and the dhol in the stadium
• Live weather: sunny, overcast (the ball swings), windy (lofted shots drift) and rain (the ball skids on); drinks and rain breaks
• Real scorecards: batting, bowling figures, fall of wickets, partnerships, run rate and required rate
• Broadcast-style score graphics (TV look in the stadium) with a speed gun, both batters, the bowler’s figures and the partnership always on screen
• Player of the Match after every game, plus top scorer, best bowling, most sixes, most fours and fastest scorer; career Player of the Match awards on every player card and on the leaderboard
• The rival captain changes the field every over and sometimes mid-over: attacking rings for a new batter, men back on the rope in a big chase, traps where you score
• Your own club: choose your team, set the batting order and bench, add teams, recruit players from other villages, and hire the best youngsters from the simulated club trials leaderboard
• Every player has career stats (30s, 50s, 100s, average, strike rate, wickets, economy, best figures) and a confidence score that changes how well they play
• LBW, run CANCEL, LED stumps that light up, fielders who mob the bowler after a wicket, fireworks for big moments
• Move in the crease (a little left / right, forward for the front foot, back for the back foot) and batters get tired in long innings: drinks breaks on the big grounds, and in the gully mummy brings out a tray of Tang
• Be one of the players yourself: pick “me” and your own team; your player opens the batting
• Close the game mid-match and pick it up later exactly where you left it (RESUME on the home screen)
• Two batsman styles: PRO (helmet and pads) or CLASSIC street kid in your team kit
• Play with on-screen controls or hide them and just swipe / click; graphics adapt automatically to your device
• Keyboard, mouse, touch and gamepad

Controls

Batting Basics

Shot Modes (bottom centre, always on screen)

• 1 / 2 / 3: DEFEND / GROUND / LOFT
• ↑ / W: Toggle LOFT on/off

Confidence Meter

• Starts from your form and changes every ball
• +1: Touching the ball
• +2: Four along the ground
• −5: Lofted four or six
• −8: Missed loft
• −10: Any other miss
• Six chance: Middling a loft = your confidence %
• Ground shot: Well-timed ones have 10x that chance of reaching the rope

Mouse

• Click: Play shot
• Drag: Play shot in that direction
• Right-click: Defensive shot
• Hold TAB + click: Lofted shot

Keyboard

• Space: Play shot
• ← / → (Q / E; A / E on AZERTY): Aim
• F: Defend
• Hold TAB + Space: Loft
• Shift: Front foot
• S: Back foot
• Mouse wheel / V: Camera distance
• Space / double-click (between balls): Next ball now
• I / J / K / L: Move in the crease

Touch

• Swipe: Aim the ball in that direction
• Selected mode (DEFEND / GROUND / LOFT): Decides how the shot is played

Running

• R / RUN button: Run (automatic by default)
• X / CANCEL: Cancel run

Gamepad

• Right stick: Play shot in that direction
• Hold LT: Lofted
• Hold RT: Defensive
• Hold RB: Precision along the ground
• Hold LB: Unorthodox (scoop, sweep, reverse sweep, helicopter)
• Left stick: Footwork
• X: Run
• B: Cancel run
• A: Hit in selected mode
• D-pad: Aim and LOFT / GROUND
• L3: Leave the ball

Other

• Pause menu: Declare innings (Test matches)
• REVIEW button / D: DRS review within 5 s of LBW or caught behind (2 per innings)
• C: Camera
• Scorecard icon: Scorecard
• P: Pause and controls list
• Eye button: Hide/show on-screen controls (shot mode bar and ground map always stay)