On 6 February 2020, WCC Rivals introduced 2v2 multiplayer, which eventually became the first ever mobile game to feature 2v2 real-time cricket multiplayer.
It is the first full featured real-time multiplayer cricket game on mobile. WCC Rivals was launched in 2019 as the third game in the WCC franchise after WCC and WCC2.
The game also won Google Play Store's Best of 2020 award in the users' choice category WCC Rivals It includes professional commentary from various former cricketers in six languages, Matthew Hayden and Isa Guha for English, Aakash Chopra and Anjum Chopra for Hindi, Venkatapathy Raju for Telugu, Deep Dasgupta for Bengali, Vijay Bharadwaj for Kannada and Abhinav Mukund for Tamil. The game was officially launched in September 2020. The game was announced in November 2019 and the beta version was made available in May 2020. WCC3 is the fourth instalment of the World Cricket Championship franchise. In August 2020, WCC2 won in the people's choice gaming category in the Digital India Atmanirbhar Bharat Innovation Challenge with 6,607 votes, counting to 74% of total votes in the category. WCC2 was listed as Google's Best of Games in 2015, 20, and was also listed as Apple's Best of Games in 2016, 20. In March 2020, WCC2 was partnered with Mobile Premier League (MPL), one of India's leading mobile gaming platforms. The game was rated amongst the top 10 games among monthly active users for 3 successive years from 2016 to 2018 since its launch.
WCC2 also features 3 multiplayer formats such as offline multiplayer, online multiplayer and batting multiplayer. WCC2 also consists of live cricket features such as Hot events featuring ongoing bilateral cricket series and social modules such as Gangs of Cricket, World Tour and Challenge a Friend. The game features 11 different tournaments including 50 over World Cup, National Premier League (based over the Indian Premier League), ODI bilateral series, World T20 Cup, Asian Cup, Ashes-To-Ashes, and 2 over blitz tournaments. The game features about 18 international teams, 42 cricket stadiums, including all three formats of cricket (Test, ODI and T20I). They could even change the squads of both the playing and the opposition teams as well. Being an advanced version of WCC, WCC2 had player customization where users could customize player names, jersey numbers, faces, etc. This game has different commentary options in Hindi and English. WCC2 was officially released in 2015 and is a sequel to WCC.
The first game in the World Cricket Championship franchise, WCC was officially released in 2011.