Made with Nano Banana 2 Lite · CC0 · 31 Jul 2026

Image: Premium broadcast graphic for a fictional cricket

Generated from: Premium broadcast graphic for a fictional cricket management game: a five-place bowling leaderboard. FRAMING RULE: render the picture as a widescreen 16:9 photograph occupying the central horizontal band of the canvas. The top strip is plain dark gradient, the bottom strip plain dark blurred crowd; nothing important enters either strip. ABSOLUTE RULE, THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE: the picture contains NOT ONE SINGLE CHARACTER. No letters, no words, no digits, no rank numbers, no headline, no filled name plates, no ratings. Every card, band, bar and tile is a BLANK EMPTY PLATE. Do not title the graphic, do not label the people, and do not write out any word from this instruction anywhere in the image. SCENE: a clean editorial leaderboard. Five cricketers' head-and-shoulders portraits in a horizontal row, all the same size, each inside its own vertical card. The leftmost card carries a restrained cool golden rim light; the other four are plain. Behind the row, a large cricket ball with a visible seam, dark and softly out of focus. Beneath each portrait an empty horizontal band and a small empty rectangle, both completely blank. Cool, even portrait lighting. THE FIVE MEN MUST BE UNMISTAKABLY FIVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE — this is the second most important rule. Give each a distinct age, build, hairstyle and facial hair so that no two could be confused: first, a lean man in his early twenties, clean-shaven, short cropped black hair, dark brown skin; second, a heavier man in his mid thirties, full black beard, shaved head, deep brown skin; third, a tall man around thirty with shoulder-length dreadlocks tied back, very dark skin, thin moustache; fourth, a fair-skinned man in his late twenties with sandy hair, freckles and a light stubble; fifth, an older man in his late thirties, greying temples, weathered olive skin, clean-shaven, lined face. Each wears a differently coloured invented kit. Do not write any nationality or country in the picture. INTERFACE LAYER: the five cards plus one slim blank horizontal bar in the upper middle, one fifteenth of the picture height. Cards are dark smoked-glass plates in navy over anthracite, distinctly darker than the background. Even spacing, soft shadows, rounded corners, hairline outlines. SAFE ZONE: every card and the bar keep at least one tenth of the picture width and height clear of all four edges. No card is cropped and no head is cut off. COLOUR: deep navy blue, neutral anthracite, white highlights, one restrained gold rim light on the leftmost card only. Card borders stay neutral brushed graphite and warm grey. Everything fictional: original abstract crests with no letters, invented kit designs, no resemblance to any real league, club, player, broadcaster or sponsor. Photorealistic sports-broadcast portraits, sharp, correct cricket ball with a visible seam, plausible anatomy, natural skin tones and pores, plausible shadows, no HDR oversaturation, no beauty-filter smoothing.