When a match is streamed to YouTube, the video sits on the match screen in the app. From version 0.1.22 it has its own player, built for cricket rather than a general video page. YouTube’s title bar, share button and logo are trimmed away, so the picture and the score get the space.
The controls
- Play and pause.
- Back 10 seconds and forward 10 seconds — handy for seeing a wicket again.
- A progress bar you can drag to any moment.
- Mute, full screen, and a YouTube button that opens the same video in the YouTube app.
Settings: quality and speed
The settings button works like YouTube’s. Quality lists what the video really has — Auto, 1080p, 720p and so on — so you can pick a lower one on weak mobile data. Playback speed runs from 0.5× to 2×, so you can slow down a run-out or speed through a long innings.
Live and finished matches
- While the match is live, the eye count shows how many people are watching now.
- After the match it shows the total views.
- A finished match’s video starts from the very beginning and waits on the first picture until you tap play, so it never starts playing by surprise.
- When it ends you get a Play again card.
