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Cricket 22 cover art

Cricket 22

Big Ant Studios · Nacon · 2021-12-01

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SimulationSports

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Dec 01, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 28, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 02, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Dec 02, 2021 (Xbox One), Dec 02, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Dec 02, 2021 (PlayStation 5)

Cricket 22 delivers the Ashes, the Big Bash, The Hundred, and a multitude of other fan-favourite competitions! All-new mechanics, commentary, and a captivating, narrative driven career mode, will immediately immerse you in the ultimate cricket experience to date.

34
playing now
81%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$44.99
steam price (US)

34 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Cricket 22 is a 2021 cricket video game developed by Big Ant Studios and published by Nacon. It is the official video game of the 2021–22 Ashes series of cricket matches, and the sequel to the 2019 game Cricket 19. It released on the 2 December 2021 as a curtain-raiser prior to the start of the 2021–22 Ashes series which were held in Australia in December 2021. The Nintendo Switch version of the game was expected to be released in January 2022 and was later confirmed for 28 April 2022. This is the second Big Ant Studios game to be released for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, the first being Tennis World Tour 2.

Health check

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  • · Top 24% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 35k–79k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,755 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $20.24 at Steam (2023-05-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $39.75 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

34102026-08-11 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 21 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 14 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 20 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 26 players2026-08-15 21:00 — 14 players2026-08-16 13:00 — 31 players2026-08-17 05:00 — 16 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 12 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 18 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-19 20:00 — 20 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 25 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 10 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 19 players2026-08-22 11:00 — 22 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 13 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 23 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 26 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 11 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 20 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 28 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 15 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 24 players2026-08-28 11:00 — 24 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 29 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 34 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$59.99$20.242021-10-232026-08-282021-10-23 — best price $44.992022-03-28 — best price $44.992022-07-05 — best price $29.992022-08-30 — best price $41.992022-11-12 — best price $31.492022-12-22 — best price $31.492023-01-17 — best price $29.992023-01-30 — best price $44.992023-03-01 — best price $22.492023-03-14 — best price $29.992023-03-23 — best price $44.992023-05-15 — best price $20.242023-06-06 — best price $23.992023-12-21 — best price $22.492024-04-04 — best price $29.992024-06-27 — best price $20.242024-10-02 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $20.242024-12-19 — best price $20.242025-03-06 — best price $20.242025-06-26 — best price $20.242026-08-28 — best price $59.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

62152026-05-31 — 41 pageviews2026-06-03 — 37 pageviews2026-06-06 — 40 pageviews2026-06-09 — 62 pageviews2026-06-12 — 31 pageviews2026-06-15 — 36 pageviews2026-06-18 — 32 pageviews2026-06-21 — 35 pageviews2026-06-24 — 26 pageviews2026-06-27 — 38 pageviews2026-06-30 — 42 pageviews2026-07-03 — 23 pageviews2026-07-06 — 34 pageviews2026-07-09 — 32 pageviews2026-07-12 — 25 pageviews2026-07-15 — 27 pageviews2026-07-18 — 28 pageviews2026-07-21 — 17 pageviews2026-07-24 — 23 pageviews2026-07-27 — 26 pageviews2026-07-30 — 22 pageviews2026-08-02 — 19 pageviews2026-08-05 — 23 pageviews2026-08-08 — 28 pageviews2026-08-11 — 21 pageviews2026-08-14 — 15 pageviews2026-08-17 — 22 pageviews2026-08-20 — 25 pageviews2026-08-23 — 29 pageviews2026-08-26 — 22 pageviews2026-08-28 — 16 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
93%
earned "Go Fetch!"
36.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform Multiplayer

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)7,2582%30
PS5 (PlayStation)71815%31
PS4 (PlayStation)4519%31
Steam (Steam)1765%30
Switch (Nintendo)90%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DCo-opSportsCricketBaseballRealisticControllerManagementSimulationMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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