CricMatch is a live cricket scoring and tournament platform for amateur cricket: clubs, colleges, corporates, housing societies, and weekend cups. Organizers create teams and fixtures, score ball by ball, and publish a public match page. Fans follow that page without creating an account.
The site is also a library of original practical guides — how to run a local T20, how to score extras, how to train a volunteer scorer, how to share one official total instead of five WhatsApp screenshots. The software and the writing are the same project: make local cricket easier to run and easier to follow.
Open the match centre to see live, upcoming, and completed public matches. Open a match to see the live total, wickets, overs bowled, overs remaining, batters, bowler, recent balls, and the full scorecard. If the organizer enabled a stream, it sits with the score.
Share the match URL with family. Do not retype the score into chat; the page updates as balls are entered. After the game, the scorecard remains so you can check bowling figures on Monday.
Register, verify email, and create teams with player names. Create a tournament so matches belong to a league table. Schedule each fixture with overs and venue. On match day, choose striker, non-striker, and bowler, then record every delivery: runs, extras, wickets.
Assign a primary scorer and a backup. Brief them on your extras rules (wide, no-ball, byes) because local cricket is not always identical to televised T20. At the innings break, reconcile the total with umpires, set the target, and start the chase with the correct openers.
In a limited-overs innings the quota is usually 20 × 6 = 120 legal balls (or whatever overs you set). Overs left is the remaining legal balls written in cricket notation: after 12.3 overs of a 20-over innings, 7.3 overs remain. The live and scorecard views show this so chases are readable without mental arithmetic.
Overs left disappears when the innings is complete, all out, or the match is finished. It is a live-innings aid, not a decoration.
Wait for the umpire’s signal. Do not score from the crowd. Log extras as extras, not as batter runs. Confirm which batter is out on a run-out. Reconcile every over, and always at the innings break. Those habits matter more than any button layout.
Our scoring guides exist because volunteer scorers are the backbone of local cricket. Thirty minutes of training beats two hours of protest after a final.
Fans: open the match centre. Organizers: register and read the match-day checklist. Everyone: the About page explains who we are; Contact Us is for account and privacy questions; Editorial policy explains how we maintain the guides.