What shipped in August
A big month of building: a redesign of live matches, a Home built on match day data, match pages that show where the game was won, or lost. And much more…
PlayStats · 31 August 2026 · 8 min read
August was our biggest month of building. Over 600 changes shipped, more than 300 of them bug fixes, five app store releases — and the features that make PlayStats ready as a paying product are now live on web and mobile. Here's what changed.
A new look, everywhere
The redesign we've been working on is fully shipped. Not "coming soon" — live, on your phone and in your browser, now.
A new Home screen, cleaner performance cards, collapsing match headers that pin to the top of your screen, and a redesigned ball-by-ball innings page for both bat and ball.
The colour themes have been reworked. Dark mode now separates cards from the background, and light mode holds its contrast in daylight. We added an automated test that fails the build if any two colours ever drift too close together again, so the palette can't quietly degrade.
Web and mobile now share the same layout: same cards, same tabs, same navigation. If you've been using both, they finally feel like the same app.
Home is built around match day
Home now leads with live cricket — your club's matches first, then any watched players who are playing live elsewhere. On a Saturday with fifteen matches running, we show the six that matter most: a milestone approaching, a batter in play, a wicket just fallen.
Post-game, Home answers the questions a coach actually asks on a Sunday. How did we go? Where did we win it, or lose it?
Player performances are right there — the same cards players see. Results cards stay until that side plays again, not for 48 hours and then gone. And Home sees a week ahead, so a Wednesday look tells you who you play on the weekend.
One layout for players and coaches, web and mobile.
Reading a match
The innings page has been redesigned end to end. Every ball shows as a coloured chip, one row per over, with a coloured underline marking the balls you were on strike. Dot balls display as small circles — actual dots, the way a scorebook does it. Partnership headers use proper cricket notation, and your innings now shows when each milestone was reached — 50 off 72, 100 off 131, five wickets in the 16th over.
The match page gets match analysis v2, which shows where a game was won, not just what each innings looked like: a verdict line naming the block of overs that decided it, close-finish detection, and breaks in play labelled properly — "Stumps, day 1", "Tea". Tested across every match we hold.
Team milestones — when the side reached each 50, 100 and 150, and how many balls it took — are on the scorecard for everyone now, not just coaches. Each batting line shows dot balls faced; each bowling line shows dot-ball percentage. Bowlers get their own highlight reel, not just batters.
And on the web, every figure on a scorecard is now a door. Tap a 64* and you get that player's innings, spell and fielding in that match — the same for the opposition's figures as your own. The app follows next.
New this month, under the bat and ball
Wickets by batting position. Not how many wickets a bowler took, but who they take them from — the openers, the middle, the tail. A bowler who takes four a week from numbers 9 to 11 is a different bowler from one who removes top-order batters, and no scorecard has ever separated them. On the web now, backfilled across every bowler we hold.
Partnership cards. Best and average stands, and a batter's own share of them — the difference between carrying a stand and being carried in one.
Boundary % for bowlers. Dot-ball percentage told half the story. This is the other half: how often a bowler concedes a boundary.
Team form strips. The last five results as W/L letters, on the team page header and on every row of a club's teams list.
The app is faster
Three planned speed passes shipped. Launch goes straight to Home — no spinner, no false bounce towards onboarding. Opening a player's innings paints instantly from the row you tapped.
The record is ours
This one matters for accuracy. Finished matches are now stored in our own database and served from there. Faster to open, and the figures can't change under you after the fact.
We found and fixed a bug where a multi-day innings could be counted from a single day's play — a double hundred recorded as a 171-ball fragment.
Eighteen affected matches were repaired, and incomplete data is now blocked before it can land.
Abandoned matches count. If you scored 119 and the second day was rained off, those runs are in your season. Washed-out games are labelled correctly too: a T20 that never started returns "Match abandoned", not "Match drawn".
Ladders that match the competition
Ladders now show the real columns for each format. A T20 ladder has no quotient; a two-day ladder ranks outright wins above first-innings wins. Each format shows its own columns, in the order the competition actually ranks on. Mobile got a format picker.
Clubs, watchlists and your club pinned
Your club now sits at the top of the Clubs tab, not buried alphabetically between two others. The club dashboard was rebuilt to match the design players see — tabs, chips and player cards instead of full-width picker boxes.
Tap a name on a bowling leaderboard and the player page opens on bowling, not batting. The discipline you were reading carries through.
Sharing, without an account
A player's profile now opens for anyone on one link — no account, no app — and it carries the filter that was applied, so "my T20 season" arrives as the same view you sent. A live match can be shared the same way, while it's still being played. Both are on the web first, with the app to follow.
Social cards
Weekend cards now show the current round, the player's registered name and the pacing of the innings — and a double century is properly titled DOUBLE CENTURY. You can tick and download multiple cards in a batch.
We've also built a PlayStats-branded template for our own channels, designed for Instagram carousels with a bold first slide and a detailed card as slide two.
The blog and the website
"Beyond the Scorecard" is live at playstats.app/blog, written for players, parents, coaches and clubs. It's a moving space; check back from time to time. There's now a Partners page for prospective resellers as well.
The Daily Drop
Every day this pre-season we're gifting 12-month PlayStats subscriptions to players and clubs across Australian cricket. It isn't a competition or a prize draw — no entry form, no purchase, nothing to win. We pick people and give them the platform.
From 25–29 August we selected two players a day from existing accounts. From 31 August it went national: two players and one club every day, rotating through a different state each week for six weeks — Queensland, Victoria, NSW & ACT, South Australia & NT, Western Australia, Tasmania.
Each player gift is worth $109 — a PlayStats Player subscription at $49 plus a 12-month SpeakingCricket subscription at $60, from PlayStats co-founder Nick Speak. Each club gift is $259. That's up to $477 a day, and more than $20,000 across the full six weeks.
To be eligible you need to be 16 or over and to have played at least five matches in 2025–26. If you're selected we'll reach out directly, and to claim you follow PlayStats on both Twitter/X and Instagram and come back to us within seven days.
Full terms, and the week-by-week state rotation, are in The Daily Drop.
Pricing
Pricing for the 2026–27 season is live: one yearly price per tier, everything included, no hidden extras.
| Plan | Per year, incl. GST |
|---|---|
| Supporter — follow the game | $19 |
| Player / Family — imports, full batting, bowling and fielding analysis, up to five players on one account | $49 |
| Coach — watchlists and shared insight with the players who approve you | $99 |
| Clubs & associations — branded weekend cards, team dashboards, video, opposition analysis, printable match reports across every grade | $199 |
| Club Pro — the same, at 30 accounts | $299 |
Coaching at a club that subscribes? Your access comes through the club's plan, at no extra cost. You don't buy twice.
Every paid plan opens with a free 21-day trial — not a launch promotion, a permanent one. Anyone who signs up in November, or next March, gets the same 21 days.
Free until 30 September. Every account already on PlayStats keeps full access to the end of September — the whole pre-season, at no cost. Billing starts on 22 October, two or three rounds into the season, once live scores and your own matches have been working for you. We moved that out by a month deliberately: the subscription sells the season you're playing, and asking anyone to pay before their own matches are running isn't a fair trade.
What you've paid for stays yours, either way. A subscription buys the season you're in; everything already in your record stays visible whether you renew or not.
App releases this month
- 3.2.0 — the redesign release: new Home, collapsing headers, ball-by-ball for players, rebuilt club page, and the startup crash-loop fix.
- 3.2.1 — video-player close fix, shipped the same day it was reported.
- 3.3.0 — rebuilt colour themes, navigation polish, Apple-safe access card.
- 3.4.0 — live-led coach Home, session contract, new club dashboard, all three speed passes.
- 3.5.0 — finished coach Home, ladder rebuild, fresher leaderboards, cache-corruption fix.