eCricket

eCricket is a mobile cricket game from Bengaluru and San Francisco studio LightFury Games, built in Unreal Engine 5.5 around 700+ licensed players, AI commentary and a broadcast-style presentation. Its closed beta opens on 27 October 2026 and runs in three eight-day batches through 21 November; the India launch for everyone comes after the beta phases.

That makes this site unusual for a game guide. There are no builds to grind and no meta to solve yet, so the job here is the one thing that is genuinely hard to find: what the developer has actually confirmed, with the date attached to it. Every page below is written from the official site, the studio's own press release, and the media the game publishes — never from speculation about systems nobody has played.

What is confirmed right now

Start with the beta, because that is the clock

The only date that matters this month is 27 October. If you registered for the closed beta, your pass colour already decides which of the three batches you are in, and each batch is eight days long — so the difference between batch 1 and batch 3 is a fortnight of access to a game nobody else can play.

• eCricket closed beta: the three batches, dates and access rules — the full calendar and who plays when.
• eCricket release date and roadmap — the three phases, in the studio's own order.
• What carries over from the beta — progress, automatic Beta access, and the three pass-holder rewards.

Then read what the game actually is

The pitch for eCricket is not "another cricket game" but a broadcast one: floodlights, commentary, licensed players and real grounds. The pages below take the official feature list apart one item at a time, so you know what each line means before you spend eight days inside it.

• Gameplay: what the eight features actually describe — UE 5.5, AI commentary, broadcast presentation, physics, skill-based play.
• Players and teams — what "700+ licensed players" does and does not tell you.
• Competitive multiplayer and the esports angle — why the beta exists at all, in the studio's words.
• Platforms and availability — mobile first, India launch, and what each phase opens up.

The studio behind it

LightFury Games is a 100-person AAA studio that raised $11 million in April 2026 with seven Indian internationals among its investors — MS Dhoni, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Tilak Varma and Sai Sudharsan. That backing is the reason a debut title from a new studio is being treated as a flagship rather than a gamble.

• LightFury Games and the money behind eCricket — the round, the investors, and where the capital is going.
• eCricket FAQ — short answers to the questions the beta queue keeps asking.