England Cricket for Android

Excellent live coverage with video clips to enjoy.

It used to be great. The last update removed the widget so I can’t monitor scores easily, reduced the font size to unreadable, barfed unnecessary colors and graphics everywhere, and made it harder to find everything. So, pretty much useless.

I reviewed this app four years ago and said that they had ‘knocked it for 6’. The latest update ruins the app. Now, as useless as a chocolate teapot, I’ll be ditching it in favour of just about anything else. The latest update: - replaces the big, straightforward match score display with a tiny scoreline and a difficult to read summary of the match which must be scrolled (hiding the score). - removes the home screen widget entirely. - replaces the recognisable custom wicket cowbell effect with the default iOS sound used by almost every other notification. - massively clutters up the interface and renders all text at a uniform tiny size. - breaks notifications so they do not work most of the time. This used to be the perfect Cricket app: leave it on your desk for a readable score display, tap it for commentary or the scorecard, get recognisable notifications at fall of wicket, have a widget on your home screen for once-touch check-in on the score. Now, it’s just a bunch of tiny text crammed onto a scrolling screen that I have to pick up and hold an inch from my face to read. Garbage.

The top line of the batting scorecard is consistently cut off from the display. Weird. Otherwise pretty good app. Would love to see live streaming added (like the Cricket Australia app)

As a devout England cricket fan now living in the US... This app is amazing. For the most part (99%) it gives extremely prompt- up to date scores, runs, wickets etc. without the access to sky sports or any live coverage of England or yorkshires cricket this app is absolutely the best alternative. Very very very occasional glitches but closing and re-opening the app usually reloads it and fixes itself. An easy 4 stars. And considering the alternatives for an ex-pat. 5.