You're the captain

Death Overs

The match comes down to the last overs. Read the batter, set the field, make every call.

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Death Overs · No. 1

The lights are on.

Fourteen to defend off the last over. A finisher on strike who murders anything short, dew on the ball, a No. 11 at the other end, and a crowd on its feet.

The captain’s armband is on the bench. It’s yours.

First ball in --:--:--

Death Overs: the match

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How to play

You're the captain at the end of a tight match. Every ball is your call; the engine plays it out. Win the match, and make the best calls you can.

Bowling

Tap where to land the ball on the pitch: five lengths, three lines. Red cells are where the batter is strong, blue where he's weak.
Your bowler won't always hit his spot: the percentage by each length is how often he does. A missed yorker is often a full toss.
Bowl the same ball twice running and the batter will be waiting for it.
Spinners have no bouncer, and a variation instead of the slower ball: the off-spinner's carrom ball, the leg-spinner's googly, the left-armer's arm ball. Pitches that turn help them; dew makes the ball hard to grip.
Set the field: Attack (catchers in), Balanced, Save one (ring in, stops singles), or Deep (boundary riders: stops fours, gives twos).

Batting

Pick a shot. Each shows how many runs it tends to bring and how risky it is.
Against spin, sweep, or charge down the track: big rewards, but miss and you can be stumped. Against pace, both are a gamble.
The bowler's card tells you his plan, and the likely next ball. He won't always land it.
Running: Hold turns down singles (keep the strike), Hard turns ones into twos, at the risk of a run-out.

Test finishes

Some matches are the last day of a Test: the last pair in, runs to win and overs left. Reach the target and win; bat out the overs and it's a draw (worth half); lose the wicket and lose. A red ball: fewer runs, catchers round the bat.

Captaincy

At the end, every call is checked against the best call in the same situation, worked out exactly. Captaincy is how close you were, whatever the luck did.

Levels

Club, County, Franchise, International, World Cup Final. Win three in a row to move up; lose two in a row and you drop down. At World Cup Final even perfect captaincy loses half the time.

The daily match

One match a day, the same for everyone, new at 00:00 UTC (5:30 am in India).