Frequently Asked Questions

CricLive is a live cricket scoring and tournament platform for local and grassroots cricket. Scorers record every ball in the mobile app, and fans follow live scores, ball-by-ball commentary, full scorecards, analysis charts, player stats and photo galleries in real time on the app and the web.

We love cricket, but found that many scoring apps are powerful yet complex for everyday players. CricLive is our answer: the same real-time scoring, stats and tournaments, made simple and easy to understand so any cricketer can pick it up and enjoy the game instead of fighting with the app.

Yes. Following matches, tournaments, teams and players is completely free, and you do not need to sign in just to watch. You only sign in for personal features such as My Matches and My Tournaments, or to score or join a team or tournament through an invite.

Your cricket, preserved and celebrated. Keep a permanent record of every match, watch your batting, bowling and fielding stats grow automatically, earn badges and awards, follow teammates and rivals, and share your profile and performances with anyone — all for free.

No. Anyone can browse CricLive and watch live matches, scorecards, tournaments, teams and player profiles without signing in. An account is only needed for personal features and for scoring or joining through an invite.

No password needed. CricLive uses one-time codes: enter your email and we send you a 6-digit code to verify. Your account is created automatically the first time you verify, so signing in and signing up are the same simple step.

When you enter your email we send a 6-digit one-time code to it. Type the code to sign in. Codes expire quickly for security, and there is a short cooldown before you can request a new one — the timer keeps running even if you leave and return to the page.

Check your spam or promotions folder and make sure the email is spelled correctly. Codes expire quickly, so if too much time passed, request a new one after the short cooldown. Still nothing? Contact support and we will help.

In real time. The moment a scorer records a delivery in the app, the scoreboard, commentary and analysis update instantly over a live connection — no page reload needed. The ticker at the top of the site follows every live match too.

Matches can be limited-overs, box cricket, pair cricket, test or Hundred-style, played with a tennis, leather or other ball on rough, cement, turf, astroturf or matting pitches. Stats are kept separately per ball type, so your tennis-ball numbers never mix with leather.

Watch live matches, open full scorecards and commentary, explore analysis charts, follow tournaments with their fixtures, points tables and leaderboards, view team and player profiles with career stats, browse photo galleries, and search for any match, team, tournament or player. Scoring and managing is done in the app.

Open any match with a LIVE badge from the home page, the Matches page or the ticker at the top of the site. The match page streams the live scoreboard, current batters and bowler, run rate, projected score and the most recent balls as they happen.

Live commentary you can filter by full, overs, wickets or boundaries, the complete scorecard with batting and bowling cards, extras, fall of wickets and partnerships, the squads, match info, an Analysis tab of charts, the MVP leaderboard, Heroes of the Match awards, a photo gallery and a match summary.

LIVE means the match is in progress and updating in real time — including innings breaks and interruptions such as drinks, lunch or rain, which show as their own status. UPCOMING is scheduled but not started. Completed matches keep their full commentary, scorecard and analysis permanently.

Use the search in the header, which covers matches, players, teams and tournaments in one place. The Matches page can also be filtered by category, location and date — today, tomorrow or this week — and even matches near you.

Charts built from the ball-by-ball record: Manhattan (runs per over), worm and run-rate comparisons, wicket breakdowns, partnerships, phases of play, impactful overs, run-type and extras breakdowns, and a wagon wheel when shot directions are captured. Filter by team to compare innings.

The MVP leaderboard converts every contribution — runs, strike rate, wickets, economy and fielding — into points using a format-aware formula, and shows the breakdown per player. The ranking reflects all-round impact rather than runs alone.

If a match ends in a tie it can go to a super over — one over per side, two wickets, chase the target. If the super over ties again, another is played. The match page follows it live and then shows a dedicated super-over summary next to the main result. Organisers can also settle a tie directly without a super over.

When a match completes, its heroes are frozen: Player of the Match, Best Batter and Best Bowler, plus Fighter and Star honours. They are chosen automatically from each player's performance — runs, wickets, strike rate, economy and fielding — and every award lands permanently in that player's trophy cabinet.

If a team does not turn up, the organiser can record a walkover — the present team gets the win and the points, but because no play happened the match is excluded from player stats and net run rate. Matches can also end as a tie or a no-result.

Scores update over a live connection, so first check your internet. If it still looks stuck, refresh the page — it reconnects and pulls the latest state. A brief pause can also mean an innings break or a rain or drinks interruption, which shows as its own status.

Try fewer or shorter words and check the spelling. Global search covers matches, players, teams and tournaments; if a match still does not appear, it may not have been created yet in the app. On the Matches page, also make sure a filter is not hiding it.

Scoring is done in the CricLive mobile app. Any signed-in user can score, but only one device holds the scoring role at a time so there is never a conflict. If a scorer's phone dies, another device can take over instantly and the previous one is released automatically.

For every delivery the scorer picks the striker, non-striker and bowler, then records the outcome: runs, extras, wickets and, optionally, the wagon-wheel shot direction. Everything downstream — scoreboard, scorecard, stats and commentary — updates from that single entry.

Wides, no-balls, byes and leg-byes, each tracked separately in the scorecard. Wide and no-ball rules are configurable per match — how many penalty runs they cost and whether the delivery counts as legal — so scoring matches your local rules.

Yes. Local cricket makes its own rules — gully and box cricket games often follow their own run values — and overthrows, byes and leg-byes can add up too. So a single delivery can be worth 8, 12 or more runs, and the scorer can enter any total up to 99 runs on one ball. Whatever is recorded flows straight into the batter, extras and team totals.

Every mode of dismissal: bowled, caught, caught behind, caught and bowled, LBW, run out (including Mankad), stumped, hit wicket, obstructing the field, hit the ball twice, timed out, retired out, retired hurt and absent hurt — each credited correctly to the bowler and fielder.

Undo the last ball and it rolls back everywhere — innings score, scorecard and player stats recompute automatically. The scorer can also retire a batter, bring in a replacement bowler, or swap a wrongly selected player mid-innings without breaking the record.

Yes. The scorer can award bonus runs, or penalty runs against a team for infringements (5 runs by default, in line with Law 41) with a documented reason. Each award is logged separately from deliveries and can be individually undone.

Yes. Each match has its own rules: set wide and no-ball penalties, decide whether they count as legal deliveries, cap overs per bowler, and control wagon-wheel capture — so box cricket, tennis-ball and local-rules games all score correctly.

Yes. In the app you can create a match ahead of time — it shows as Upcoming — then start scoring when play begins. You can also step away from a live match and pick up scoring again later from the same or another device, because the scoreboard is saved as you go.

No. The website is for viewing. Scoring, along with creating and managing matches, teams and tournaments, is done in the CricLive mobile app for Android and iOS. Everything you score there appears live on the web instantly.

Yes. Every recorded delivery instantly updates the live scoreboard and commentary, and the same engine rebuilds scorecards, points tables, leaderboards, MVP rankings and career stats — one ball, updated everywhere.

Tournaments are created in the app. Any signed-in user can organise one: set the name, banner and logo, city and ground, dates, match and ball type, category, entry details and prizes — then invite teams and generate fixtures.

The organiser shares a tournament invite link, or a team owner registers directly while the tournament is still upcoming. Accepting an invite needs a team you own or captain, and new players can even create their team as part of accepting.

League (round robin), knockout and group stages. Knockout brackets advance automatically — as each match completes the winner moves into the next round, from quarter-finals through semi-finals to the final. Organisers can also use custom rounds such as qualifiers, eliminators and super leagues.

A win earns 2 points, a tie or no-result 1, and a loss 0. Teams level on points are separated by net run rate. Walkovers count as wins but are excluded from NRR, and the table flags qualifying teams and shows each side's recent form — all updated automatically as results come in.

Leaderboards rank every player across batting, bowling, fielding and partnership metrics — most runs, most wickets, best strike rate and more. Insights go deeper with win ratios, boundary percentages, wicket-type breakdowns, fastest fifties and centuries and extras analysis.

Organisers hand-pick the trophy board from many award types — Player of the Tournament, Best Batter, Best Bowler, Orange and Purple Cap, MVP, Emerging Player, Golden Bat and Ball, Best Wicketkeeper and Fielder, plus fully custom awards.

Tournament pages are public. Anyone can browse the teams and squads, fixtures, live matches, points table, leaderboards, stats, heroes and gallery. Signing in is only needed to participate.

Yes. Every tournament page has overall stats and an MVP ranking, and every team page shows aggregate stats and its own player leaderboards — all built automatically from the matches scored.

Run your tournament in the CricLive app and it gets its own public page with fixtures, points table, leaderboards and gallery automatically. For promotion or partnership enquiries, reach out through the Contact page.

Teams are created in the app. Any signed-in user can add a team with a name, city and logo, then build the squad — assigning roles such as captain, wicketkeeper, batter, bowler, all-rounder or team admin to each player.

The team's creator, captain or admin shares an invite link. Open it, check the team details, verify your email with a one-time code, and you are in the squad. Invite links can be set to expire after 1, 7, 14 or 30 days — or never — and regenerating a link invalidates the old one.

In the app, the team's creator or admin can assign the captain role — along with other roles such as wicketkeeper or admin — to any squad member, and change it whenever the team does. The captain is shown on the team's public page and squad list.

Yes. The team's creator or admin can edit the team details — including the name, city and logo — from the app, and the updates appear on the public team page right away.

You can leave a team yourself at any time. Adding players, changing roles and removing members is handled by the team's creator, so the squad stays under the owner's control.

The team's identity and owner, the full squad with roles, every match played across tournaments and individual games, aggregate stats — matches, wins, losses, ties, win percentage and toss outcomes — plus player leaderboards and a photo gallery.

Rankings of the squad's own players across batting, bowling and fielding metrics — top run-scorers, wicket-takers, best averages, most catches and more — so you can settle the dressing-room debates with data.

A player profile is a cricket CV: photo, playing role (batter, bowler, all-rounder or wicketkeeper), batting and bowling styles, career stats, match history, teams, awards and trophies, badges, a photo gallery, and followers and following lists.

A verified player has confirmed their email with a one-time code — either by signing in or by accepting a team invite. Verifying links the profile to a real person, so the matches, stats and awards on it are genuinely theirs and cannot be claimed by anyone else.

Yes. Tap any player's name on a scorecard, squad list or leaderboard to open their public profile with career stats, match history, teams, awards and gallery. You can also follow players, teams and tournaments to keep up with them.

Automatically, from every ball scored in your matches — nothing is entered by hand. Stats cover batting, bowling, fielding and captaincy, each split into overall, tennis-ball, leather-ball and box-cricket buckets so each set is a fair comparison, and they refresh the moment a match completes.

Badges are achievements unlocked automatically for batting, bowling and fielding milestones. Awards are Hero-of-the-Match honours — Player of the Match, Best Batter, Best Bowler and more — plus tournament trophies, all shown in the profile's Awards tab with the performance that earned each one.

Yes. You can follow players, teams and tournaments to keep up with them, and every profile shows its followers and following lists.

Yes, from the app. You can set a profile photo up to 5MB and keep a personal gallery of up to 20 photos. Teams, tournaments and matches each have their own galleries as well.

Profile editing — your photo, playing role, batting and bowling styles and other details — is done in the CricLive mobile app. The changes appear on your public web profile automatically.

Yes. From the app you can link your existing cricket profile and CricLive imports your matches, runs and wickets from there. Imported numbers are shown alongside — but kept separate from — your native CricLive career stats.

Yes. We only use your email to sign you in and keep your account secure, and we never sell your personal data. Full details of what we collect and why are in our Privacy Policy.

Your email identifies your account and is where we send your one-time sign-in codes. A phone number is optional — if you add one, it is only so teammates and organisers can reach you about matches. Neither is shown publicly on your profile, and we never sell your details or spam you.

Cricket is social, so profiles, career stats, match records, team and tournament pages are public — that is what lets fans follow the game. Your email, phone number and account credentials are never shown publicly.

Photos you add to your profile and to match, team or tournament galleries are part of those public pages, so anyone viewing them can see the photos. Only upload images you are happy to share publicly.

You can request account deletion from the CricLive app, or contact our support team and we will help. Note that match records are shared with everyone who played, so career history that other players rely on is preserved even after an account is removed.

Yes. CricLive has apps for Android and iOS. The app is where scoring and management happen — creating and scoring matches, running tournaments and building teams — while the website is for viewing everything live.

The app handles everything hands-on: scoring matches ball by ball, creating and managing teams and tournaments, editing your profile, uploading photos and accepting invites. The website mirrors all of that for viewing — live scores, scorecards, stats, profiles and galleries.

Get the app from Google Play on Android or the App Store on iOS — use the store buttons on the CricLive home page, or search for "CricLive" in your store. Once installed, sign in with your email and the same account works across the app and the web.

Yes. It is one account and one live database. Anything scored or changed in the app appears on the web immediately, and you sign in with the same email everywhere.

Yes. You can stay signed in across several devices at once, see everywhere you are currently logged in, and sign out of a single device or all of them together whenever you want.

No. The website runs in any modern browser on mobile, tablet or desktop — nothing to install. The layout is fully responsive, so it adapts to whatever screen you are on.

Once signed in, My Matches lists every match you are part of and My Tournaments lists your tournaments — both filterable by live, upcoming and past, so you never lose track of your own cricket.

Yes. Every match, tournament, team and player has its own public web page, so you can copy the link from your browser and share it on WhatsApp, social media or anywhere — the recipient can open it without signing in.

Tournament, match, team and player pages show a view count. Repeat visits from the same device within 24 hours count once, and your own visits to your own profile are ignored — so the numbers reflect genuine interest.

Refresh the page first, then check your connection. Clearing your browser cache or trying a different browser resolves most stubborn cases. If a specific page keeps failing, let support know which one so we can look into it.

Help videos play in an embedded player, so a browser extension that blocks embeds or trackers can stop them. Try pausing that extension or opening the page in a normal browser window; a refresh usually does the trick.