Touch Cricket vs Sprinttrain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Touch Cricket
Experience the thrill of cricket with realistic gameplay. Master batting techniques, face diverse bowling styles, and compete in various match formats. Build your career or challenge friends online.
- Realistic batting physics
- Test Series mode
- Twenty20, ODI, and Test matches
- Single player and online multiplayer
- Career mode
- Customizable teams and players
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TOUCH CRICKET delivers the realistic thwack of English leather on summer willow. Included in The Guardian’s top five cricketing games TOUCH CRICKET embodies the temerity and dedication required to become a first class batsman. This latest version 2.2 now features a new Test Series mode - perfect for playing along with this summer’s Ashes series! Using multi-touch, TOUCH CRICKET challenges you to find the right combination of footwork and timing in response to each unique delivery. Face all manner of googlies, leg breaks and yorkers and deploy the most effective response as you build a score to challenge the record books. Revel in a veritable almanac of play stats (are your opening pair working? Does your tail wag?) or simply come to understand the importance of stopping for drinks on a hot day and a decent Victoria sponge. With an immersive soundtrack, TOUCH CRICKET puts you at the crease, facing the heat of a varying attack and will require as much dedication and skill to master as the great game itself: * Choose to represent any of the 8 great cricketing nations * Tailor your game to the time available with Twenty20, ODI and Test modes * Play single player or online -via Game Center- in turn-based matches against friends. Also featuring full match stats, leaderboards and achievements * Pick-up-and-play functionality - carry on where you left off * Choose bowlers and tweak their styles, edit all team player names * Take a player from club to international standard in Career mode * Full Test match rule set - with options to declare, follow on or grind out the draw on day five
Sprinttrain
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Sprinttrain is a tactical top-down road-cycling sprint game. You ride in the peloton, manage your energy, use the slipstream, and pick the right moment to launch your sprint for the stage win. The Race Racing is all about the wind. Out in front you burn through your energy fast, but tucked into another rider's slipstream you save it and even recover. Your power is measured in "matches" — every time you sprint above your threshold, you spend one, and if you burn too many you get blown and your speed collapses. The art is in the timing: read the finale, hold the wheel, and go at exactly the right moment. Moving up through the bunch and forcing your way through gaps costs energy too, so every position you fight for has a price. To set yourself up, you build your own lead-out train — recruit and upgrade riders who pull you into position and peel off in the finale. Everything runs on one-finger touch control or the keyboard. Course & Stages No two finishes feel the same. You contest flat bunch sprints, chase points at intermediate sprints on the road, and grind over hill climbs that genuinely bite — uphill you slow markedly and the draft barely helps, while downhill you roll faster. The run-ins throw roundabouts, traffic islands, narrowing roads and road blockades at you, all the way down to the flamme rouge and the finish line. Career Pick from three rider archetypes, each with its own strengths, and work your way up through a league system with promotion and relegation: Continental Tour, Pro Continental Tour, and World Tour. Each season is made up of multi-stage tours where you earn World Tour Points to survive and climb. Between races you train your rider's attributes and build and upgrade your team. A points classification and Green Jersey reward consistent placings and intermediate sprints, and every stage gives you results with time gaps, tour and season overviews, full career stats (Palmarès) and a podium ceremony. Three difficulty levels let you set the challenge. Multiplayer (Beta) You can also take the same drafting and sprint tactics online against other riders in real time. Sit in the bunch, share the work in the slipstream, and try to outsmart human opponents in the finale instead of the AI. Multiplayer is currently in beta — the core racing works, and it keeps getting refined as the netcode matures. No account, no ads, no in-app purchases. The single-player game plays fully offline. All names, races and teams are fictional.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sprinttrain at every 3 days against Touch Cricket's monthly. Touch Cricket's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Touch Cricket costs $0.99 and Sprinttrain $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Touch Cricket ships an update monthly, Sprinttrain every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Touch Cricket | Sprinttrain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alisdair Mills | David Pape |
Bugs and requests
Touch Cricket
Reported bugs
17 issues- Online game creation and deletion not working
- Cannot access existing online matches
- Player names reset to default after hours of inactivity
- Game stats reset unexpectedly
- Ball glitches through boundaries
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- Zero runs awarded when hitting between 4 and 6 zones
- Spin bowling produces impossible ball physics
- Game freezes mid-shot
- Controls unresponsive or delayed
- Incompatible with iPhone notch display
- Game Center stats not displaying
- Cannot delete games from queue
- First ball sometimes drops vertically from screen
- Caught dismissals don't show fielder name
- Input lag between screen touch and bat movement
- Graphics stretched on modern devices
- Menu selection triggers quit prompts incorrectly
Requested features
19 requests- ODI and T20 series modes (not just Test)
- Bowling and fielding gameplay
- World Cup and tournament modes
- Practice mode for skill development
- Online multiplayer with proper functionality
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- Updated player rosters with current cricketers
- County and state team options
- Toss option before matches
- Declaration option in Test matches
- More detailed statistics (50s, 100s, strike rates)
- Pause menu functionality
- Game Center and online stats system
- Customizable team names
- Variable difficulty settings
- Forum for player-to-player matches
- Console-quality full cricket game expansion
- Better graphics and 3D view options
- Facebook integration
- Dropped catch mechanics for realism
Sprinttrain
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Touch Cricket
No in-app purchases
Sprinttrain
No in-app purchases
Questions
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