For league and competition operators
Cricket league management software
A league is a business with a fixture list. Somebody has to take entries, collect fees, build a schedule that fits the grounds available, get every match scored, keep the table right, settle the disputes, and have something worth watching at the end of it. Most of that work happens between Monday and Thursday, and most cricket software only shows up on Saturday.
Crickslab is built for the whole week. It runs registration, payments, scheduling, live scoring, standings, streaming and broadcast graphics as one system, so the league operator is not reconciling four tools and a spreadsheet.
The same platform runs the Pakistan Cricket Board, Kuwait Cricket Club, the Qatar Cricket Association and the Italian Cricket Federation. It is the digital cricket infrastructure those bodies run their competitions on. A league gets that operational core, sized and priced for a league.
What a league operator is actually managing
Cricket league software is usually sold on live scoring, because live scoring demonstrates well. Live scoring is the easiest part. The parts that decide whether a season runs cleanly are the ones nobody demos.
| The job | What it looks like when it goes wrong |
|---|---|
| Taking club and team entries, and knowing who has actually paid | Chasing transfers by message, a spreadsheet that is out of date by Wednesday |
| Registering players and enforcing eligibility | An ineligible player takes the field, and a result is protested a fortnight later |
| Building a fixture list against real ground availability | Two matches allocated to one ground, and a reschedule that cascades through the season |
| Keeping the table correct under the league's own rules | Points calculated by hand, net run rate argued about in a group chat |
| Handling washouts, forfeits, penalty points and abandonments | A rule that exists in a PDF and nowhere in the software |
| Giving sponsors something they can see | A sponsor who cannot tell what they paid for |
Crickslab covers every row. The sections below take them in the order a season actually happens.
Registration and entries, with the money attached
A season starts with entries, not fixtures.
Crickslab gives a league a public entry and registration flow on the league's own site. Clubs enter, squads are submitted, players register once and keep one identity for the season, and fees are collected in the flow rather than chased afterwards. The operator sees who has entered, who has paid, who is short of a squad, and who has an eligibility problem, on one screen.
What the league gets
- Club, team and player registration under the league's own branding
- Online fee collection at entry, with a record of what is paid and what is outstanding
- One player identity for the season, so transfers move a record instead of creating a second one
- Eligibility rules set by the league and applied at registration rather than argued after a match
- Registration windows, cut-off dates and approval steps that the operator controls
If your league registers players who also register with a governing association above you, that relationship is handled at the tier above and is covered on the cricket association management software page.
Fixtures built against grounds, not against a calendar
A fixture generator that ignores ground availability creates work rather than saving it.
Crickslab schedules against the resources a league actually has. Grounds, time slots, turnaround between matches, home and away balance, and blackout dates all sit in the scheduler. Formats are configured rather than assumed: round robin, multi-group with a knockout, home and away double round, divisional leagues with promotion and relegation, and knockout with seeding and byes.
When it rains, the reschedule is the real test. Crickslab moves a fixture, reallocates the ground and the officials, notifies both clubs, and keeps the points implications correct without the operator recalculating the table by hand.
Covered in the scheduler
- Ground and slot allocation, with clash detection before publication
- Round robin, group and knockout, divisional and multi-stage formats
- Officials and scorer appointments attached to the fixture
- Reschedules, abandonments and forfeits, with the points treatment applied automatically
- Fixture publication to the league site, the app and a calendar feed clubs can subscribe to
The scheduling and competition module is documented on the tournament and league operations page, and you can draw a draw for your own team count in the free fixture generator before you speak to anyone.
Scoring that holds up when the result is challenged
Every league eventually has a match where the result is disputed. What matters then is whether the league or the scorer holds the record.
Crickslab scores ball by ball on iOS, Android and web, captures offline at grounds with poor signal and syncs when a connection returns, and puts the league rather than the individual scorer in control of the final scorecard. Corrections are made by the league, after the match, with a record of who changed what and when.
In scoring
- Ball by ball capture on mobile, tablet and web, with offline mode
- League configured playing conditions: overs, powerplays, bowling limits, super overs, Duckworth Lewis Stern
- Scorer, umpire and league administrator roles, with match official sign off
- Post match correction by the league, with a change history
- Live scorecard published to the league site and app as the match runs
The live scoring module is what the scorer works in on match day. Duckworth Lewis Stern, net run rate and points table logic are all available to check independently in the Crickslab toolkit before you commit to a platform.
A table that settles arguments instead of starting them
Points tables are where leagues lose credibility. A table that does not match the league's own regulations is worse than no table.
Crickslab configures the points system rather than assuming one. Points for a win, tie, no result and abandonment, bonus points on runs and wickets, penalty points for slow over rates and disciplinary offences, and the tie-break order the league actually uses, whether that is net run rate, quotient, head to head, wins, or a specified sequence of them. The table recalculates from the scorecards, so it cannot drift from the results.
Qualification scenarios are calculated rather than guessed, which matters in the last fortnight of a season when clubs start asking what they need to do to go through.
If you want to test the arithmetic against your own regulations first, the points table calculator runs the same logic, free and without an account.
Streaming, broadcast graphics and something sponsors can see
A league that streams is worth more to a sponsor than a league that does not, and most leagues now stream something.
Crickslab drives the stream from the same scoring feed as the scorecard, so the overlay and the table cannot disagree. Overlays run into OBS, vMix and Wirecast as browser sources. Sponsor logo slots sit inside the graphics package. Wicket, milestone and result graphics can be posted automatically to the league's social accounts as they happen, which is the part that gives a sponsor a number to look at.
For a league taking broadcast seriously, the broadcast tier is priced separately and starts at 29 US dollars a month, with per match pricing available for leagues that only stream a final or a play-off round. Ground screen scorecards and social media automation are add-ons rather than a forced bundle.
Ticketing and ground revenue, when the league is ready for it
Not every league needs this in year one. Leagues that run finals days, T20 evenings or a marquee round usually do.
Crickslab includes a ticketing engine and a ground booking engine on the same platform, so gate revenue, ground hire and the fixture list are not three separate systems. Both are quoted rather than listed, because what they cost depends on volume and on payment arrangements in your market.
Where Crickslab is not the answer
Two honest cases.
If you are a single club running an internal competition among your own teams, and you have no plan to grow beyond that, this is more platform than you need. The club tier is the right starting point and starts at 49 US dollars a month.
If you are a casual social league whose main requirement is that players can follow their own batting average on a phone, a free community scoring app will serve you better. Crickslab charges because it does the operator's work, and the operator's work is what a social league does not have.
If you sit above the leagues, sanctioning competitions run by clubs and regions rather than operating them yourself, read the cricket association management software page instead. If you are a national governing body, read the cricket board management software page.
Moving from the platform you have now
Most leagues arriving here are not starting from nothing. They are leaving something.
Crickslab imports historical fixtures, results, scorecards, clubs, teams and player records so a league does not lose its own past when it changes platform. Migration is a scoped piece of work rather than an upload button, and it is run before a season starts rather than during one.
Leagues coming off CricHQ, which went offline in August 2024 and whose domain no longer publishes address records, are a specific case, and the recovery path is covered on the CricHQ alternative page.
What it costs
League Manager Pro is quoted per season rather than listed as a single number, because a league's cost depends on how many clubs and registered players it carries, whether it needs white label on its own domain, and whether it takes streaming and broadcast graphics.
What is published
- Broadcaster tiers start at 29 US dollars a month, with per match options from 4.99 US dollars a match
- Club and academy tiers start at 49 US dollars a month
- Ground screen scorecard and social media automation are add-ons at 25 and 20 US dollars a month
- League, association, ticketing, ground booking and turnkey deployments are quoted
All published prices are in US dollars.
Talk to our team
See it run against your own fixture list
The useful demo is not a tour. Send your competition structure, your playing conditions and your points system, and Crickslab will configure it and show you your own season running in the platform.