Cricket 22 might be the best cricket sim out there right now but, unfortunately, due to the messy way in which global cricket image and player likenesses rights work, it does lack licenses for a significant number of real players, teams, leagues, kits, and stadiums. Notably, the Indian National Cricket teams and players are missing from Cricket 22, as well as the real teams in the Indian Premier League. Licenses for the national sides of South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, and Afghanistan are also not present.
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Fortunately, developer Big Ant Studios offer a huge creation toolkit within the game and the community comes to our rescue in providing replacement real teams and kits. Follow this guide to learn how it works.
The following real teams and leagues do have licenses in Cricket 22, and you don’t need to download these through the community:
While you can go into the customization tools yourself to make edits, the game's community has already provided many of the most popular missing teams and players; and it is really easy to automatically install the best community-rated versions in-game.
Simply go to Create tab in the main menu. Go to Team Manager. Press Y/Triangle/ X Key when you’ve highlighted your chosen team, then select Replace With Best. The game will automatically download and replace it and the player roster.
You can replace all the teams in each ‘league’ with the best ones as rated by the community as well, by hitting Replace All.
Below are some useful notes that you should keep in mind while downloading new teams.
The Replace With Best optionshould download a smattering of community-made stadiums for each team, but you can also find a host of real
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