Wicket Empire — free cricket manager & player career game for Android (2026)

The Player Career

Read the ball.
Then play it.

The delivery reveal · new in 1.7

See it coming.

Every delivery is read before you face it — loose, testing or dangerous, with the ball in words: "full and swinging in late", "the wrong 'un, at the stumps". Then you set the dial and play. A wicket is never something that just happened to you.

About one ball in eight is hidden — "he hides it, no read" — and an elite wrist-spinner hides more than a club medium-pacer. Reading him is a skill, and there is a skill lane for it
The cricket underneath is exactly as honest as before: ignore the read and you bat the same game. Only playing the ball you were shown changes anything
Bat blind — reads off — for one and a half times the XP. A hard mode you choose
Run your own way — singles, normal or run hard — and the dial prices the risk before the ball is bowled
Hold the ball button to keep the balls coming; it slows down by itself for the big moments

Attack the loose ones · see off the dangerous

Wicket Empire crease: the delivery read — dangerous, dipping and gripping on a length — above the batting dial

The ladder

School. Domestic.
Franchise. Country.

Start at sixteen in school cricket, or at seventeen on a domestic contract. Your place in the side is a sum you can see — rating, form, recent runs, promise — and the man ahead of you is named, with the gap.

A big season opens the door young: score like an eighty-five and the selectors look at you whatever your rating says. Stop performing and the level sends you back
Three formats in every season — T20, fifty-over, and the four-day round of first-class cricket at domestic level. Tests come with the country
Choose the formats you play: retire from one for a record that says one thing, and one return in a career
Three franchises bid for you. Your country picks you. Nobody else does

Not selected is a moment, not a line

Wicket Empire player career dashboard: your place in the queue, what the selectors want to see, the weekly challenge

Skills, and the armband

Your tree.
Your call.

Four lanes a side, every node a thing that happens at the crease rather than a number on a card — and the fourth lane grants information: what the bowler is trying to do, the field they have set, the one thing driving your out-chance right now.

Getting in, matchups, tempo, the read — with the bat. The new ball, control, the close, the read — with the ball
Captain? Pick who bowls the next over, set the field, tell the attack how hard to hunt. An over at a time when you are not bowling
A re-cut every winter: take a node back and spend its points somewhere else
Ceilings that hold: a career is a story about a player, not a shop

Information cannot be bought. It can be learned

Wicket Empire skill tree: lanes of nodes, each a thing that happens at the crease

The record

Every innings
counts.

A rating for every innings and every spell, a report that says why the number moved, a record book split the way cricket splits it — league, cup, first-class, international — and a son who can pick up where you left off.

The six-ball trial before you even have a name, then a career that remembers all of it
Milestones, duels with the bowlers who have your number, momentum you can feel
The weekly challenge: five seasons, one measured par, a result card you can share
Retire at 34 or play until the body decides at 43 — then the Hall of Fame, and your son

Wicket Empire innings report: the debut, the dismissal, the result, the rating and why

The Manager Career

Pick the side.
Win the auction.

The match centre

Play every ball.

No dice roll. A broadcast-style scorebug, a live lower-third, and a decision on every delivery.

Read the pitch and the forecast, then win or lose the toss for real
Pick your bowler every over, set the field, react to the conditions, give the team talk at the break
Three XIs from one squad: a team sheet reads each man's record in the format he is being picked for
Rain interruptions with proper DLS targets, and chase pressure that makes weak batters wobble

Highlights mode for when you're short on time

Wicket Empire match centre: scorebug, lower-third and match controls

The auction

Going once…
going twice…

Every franchise season opens with a live auction. Retain your core, then outbid seven rival owners for the best of forty lots with a fixed purse.

Rivals bid to real valuations and real squad needs, and they bid back
Power bids to shake out anyone who isn't serious
Marquee lots, bidding wars, and a summary that tells you who overpaid

Don't blink first

Three jobs

Club. Franchise.
Country.

Make your manager, start at a club, and earn the bigger jobs. Offers follow your reputation, and the phone rings when you've earned it.

Hold three jobs at once, each in its own window of the year
Your club players get called up by their country: one player, one career, everywhere they play
A T20 World Championship every two years, a 50-over World Cup every four, Test series on the summer calendar, world rankings that decide who qualifies
Get sacked from one job and the rest of your career carries on. Never a dead end

Retire at 70 with a legacy, or keep going

Wicket Empire job offers: a franchise and a national side

The board

Lift the title.
Or get sacked trying.

Boards set objectives, sponsors set conditions, and confidence rises and falls with every result. Every board in the game will sack you eventually. Outlast them.

Transfers, contracts, form and morale, injuries, a youth academy where nobodies become legends
Sponsor deals with real trade-offs, gate receipts, merchandise, a finances card that tells you why
130+ achievements, career records, a Hall of Fame, season history you can look back on

Wicket Empire world champions trophy lift

The world · new in 1.7

A world that
keeps score.

One world, every career

Names you can edit.
Records you can't fake.

Forty-two countries, fifty-six franchises, a hundred and twenty clubs, and 3,488 players who each arrive with a career that already happened — and keep playing it whether you are watching or not.

Every player's record in every format, world rankings, country records: played, won, lost, drawn, tied
A scorecard for every match in the world, yours or not — tap any result
Sign in to Google Play Games if you like — optional, never on first open — for a cloud copy of your career and six world leaderboards: career runs, career wickets, all-rounder, matches won as a manager, longest career, highest score
Name packs that map by identity, so a renamed player keeps his stats and survives every update. Export, edit, import, share
Fictional names, real cricket. Edit the crests and the names, keep the numbers

Wicket Empire world tab: rankings, records and the every-player browser

How the player career works

Six balls,
then a name.

Face six balls

Before there is a form, there is a trial: six balls with the bat and six with the ball. Then pick an archetype — the accumulator, the destroyer, the seamer, the spinner — and its ceilings are yours.

Fight for your place

Your standing is a sum you can see, every matchday. Runs and wickets move it. When you are left out, the game tells you who went in ahead of you and by how much.

Climb, or be sent back

A monster season earns the next level whatever your rating says; a bench-warming one costs it. Franchise money, a country's cap, the armband — and a son to carry the name when you stop.

How the manager career works

Earn your positions.

Make your manager

Name, nationality, age and a background with a real perk: ex-player, coach, analyst or businessman. Your own nation's side and leagues call more often.

Collect jobs, don't just switch them

Start at a club. A T20 franchise and a national side arrive as offers when your reputation earns them, and you can hold all three.

Play until they retire you

Auctions every year, bilateral series, Test summers, world events, call-ups, sackings. Fifty years, then a legacy ceremony, then keep playing if you want.

Screens

Built for a phone,
not shrunk to one.

Plays offlineNo account needed, auto-saves every ball. Pick up exactly where life interrupted you — mid-innings included. Google Play Games sign-in is there if you want the cloud copy and the leaderboards, and nothing changes if you don't.

Free, and fairOptional rewarded ads and an occasional ad at an innings break, never mid-over. No energy timers, no paywalls, nothing to buy to win.

Your cricket worldFictional names, every one editable. Name packs map by identity, so your edits survive every update. Export, import, share.

T10 · T20 · 50-over · TestsClub leagues with cups and finals, the four-day round, franchise T20, Test series, world events.

Dark modeThe whole game turned over by luminance, not by guesswork. Switch it in Settings.

Daily & weekly challengeOne chase a day, one attempt, a streak. A weekly five-season career against a measured par, with a card to share.

Four languagesEnglish, Hindi, Bengali and Afrikaans, switchable in Settings.

Made for a phoneOne thumb, one big ball button, a dial that says what the shot costs. Hold to keep playing.

Honest numbersThe dial's out-chance is the one the ball uses. Not selected says who went ahead of you and by how much.

Every ball
is yours.

Fifty years.
One career.