Organising a cricket team

The hardest part of club cricket is often getting eleven people to commit to a whole afternoon, weeks in advance. Here is what organising a side involves, and how Squadable helps with the parts around the game.

What organising cricket involves

Finding an XI

A cricket side is eleven players, and a balanced XI needs a wicketkeeper, enough bowlers and enough batting. Matches take a large part of the day, so availability has to be collected early and chased when someone drops out on the Friday. Clubs running more than one side also have to decide who plays where each week.

Matches, nets and money

A season is usually weekend league matches and friendlies, sometimes with shorter evening games, plus nets during the week. Players typically pay a match fee that goes towards teas, balls, umpires and ground costs, and collecting it from eleven players every week is a job in itself.

Side

11 players

Roles

WK, BWL, AR, BAT

Session types

Match, Nets / Training

How Squadable handles cricket

Availability for matches and nets

• Create a club and add sessions as a Match, against an opponent with a score, or as Nets / Training.
• Players opt in or out from the app, the web or straight from the invite notification. Set a maximum number of players, and anyone after that joins the waiting list and is promoted automatically if a place opens.
• Invites can go out automatically a set time before each session, so you are not starting the availability chase from scratch every week.
• Sessions with a location show the weather forecast, and players get an alert when heavy rain or strong wind is expected.

Player roles

Players choose their roles from wicketkeeper, bowler, all-rounder and batter, shown as WK, BWL, AR and BAT.

Match fees

Set a price per player and players pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay when they opt in. You receive the full price and players pay a service fee on top. If someone pays on the day in cash, mark them as paid. See how match fees work.

Live score and statistics

• Run a live match over two innings. Record runs, fours, sixes, wickets and extras (wides, no balls and byes), plus substitute fielders and injuries.
• The score shows as runs for wickets, and the result shows as a box score with fours, sixes and wickets.
• Members get a push notification for fours, sixes and wickets, so people who aren't at the ground can follow the game.
• Club statistics include most fours, most sixes and top wicket takers.

Squadable isn't a full scoring app: it doesn't track overs, and it doesn't connect to Play-Cricket.

Set up your side

Squadable is free for organisers and works on the web, iPhone and Android.

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