The live cricket scoreboard for your table-top test matches
Score every ball on your laptop like a real scorer — and put a traditional tin-plate cricket scoreboard on the TV, updating live as you play. Built for board game cricket, backyard rules, and family test matches that run past bedtime.
Start scoring — it's free, no account needed No installs for spectators — any match is one 6-character code away. Free while in beta — a small one-time unlock for the extras is coming soon. Never a subscription.A proper cricket scorecard, without the pencil
Everything a paper scorebook or scoresheet records — batting and bowling figures, extras, fall of wickets — captured in one or two taps per delivery, with the rules of cricket enforced for you.
🏏 Ball-by-ball scoring
Runs, byes, leg-byes, wides, no-balls, and every dismissal with proper attribution — c Smith b Jones, straight onto the card. Strike rotation, overs, and bowler rules handled automatically.
📺 A scoreboard worth watching
Not an LED ticker — a heritage tin-plate board with painted lettering, ground facades, a working clock, and wicket celebrations. It fills any TV, tablet, or phone in landscape.
🔗 Share with a code
Every match gets a short code like KY6AKD. Grandparents type it into Watch a match on any TV or phone — no accounts, no apps.
🏟️ Famous-ground skins
Dress the board as classic grounds with heritage frames, or design your own — colours, lettering fonts, and traditional tin-number typefaces.
📜 House rules welcome
Test, one-day, and T20-style presets — or custom rules: powerplay double runs, free hits after wides and no-balls, timed matches with a countdown, even indoor cricket wicket rules.
✏️ Fix any ball, ever
Scored a four as a six three overs ago? Edit any past delivery and the whole card recalculates — with a preview of the consequences first. Then print the scorecard when stumps are drawn.
How it works
From box open to first ball in a couple of minutes.
Set up the match
Pick a format, enter the teams, choose your ground skin — then spin the animated bat for the toss: hills or flats?
Score on the laptop
One tap per delivery on a screen laid out like a real scorecard. Every ball autosaves — resume tomorrow exactly mid-over.
Watch it live
Open Watch a match on the TV and enter the match code. Wickets get celebrations; ducks get the duck.
Made for table-top cricket
If your test matches are played with dice, cards, or flicking fingers on the dining table, this is your scorer. It's a perfect companion for classic cricket board games — including the much-loved Test Match board game by Crown and Andrews — with board-game-friendly rules like "no wicket on a no-ball" built in.
It works just as well for backyard cricket, driveway ODIs, and entirely invented formats.
Cricket scoring guides
New to keeping score, or rusty on the laws? Start here.
How to keep a cricket scorecard
The batting card, bowling figures, extras and fall of wickets, with a worked example and three checks that prove it adds up.
Cricket extras explained
Wides, no-balls, byes and leg-byes: what each is worth, whether the ball counts, and who it's charged to.
How to read a cricket scoreboard
Totals, overs like 23.4, bowling figures like 7.4–1–34–2, and why Australians write 4/156.
Scoring table-top cricket at home
House rules, formats that fit the evening, and a live scoreboard on the TV for board game and dice cricket.
Frequently asked questions
The short version: it's free, spectators never need accounts, and yes — it loves board game cricket.
Can I use it to score the Test Match board game?
Yes — that's the game that inspired it. Test Match Scoreboard is an independent, fan-made scoring tool; it isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Crown and Andrews or any board game publisher. It works with any table-top or backyard cricket game.
Do people watching the scoreboard need an account?
No. Share the match's 6-character code and anyone can open the live board — go to testmatchscoreboard.com/watch on a TV browser, tablet, or phone in landscape and type it in. It reconnects itself if the Wi-Fi hiccups.
What formats can I score?
Full test cricket (two innings a side, declarations, the follow-on), limited-overs formats with bowler caps, and custom rules: powerplays, free hits, timed matches, indoor cricket scoring.
Can I print the scorecard?
Yes — every match has a print-friendly scorecard with complete batting and bowling figures, extras, and fall of wickets. Print it as a keepsake scoresheet or save a PDF for the folder in the games cupboard.
What does it cost?
It's free while we're in beta: score any standard format, live TV scoreboard, shareable match codes, printable scorecards — with ads on the app pages (never on the scoreboard). An unlock is coming for the extras — custom game rules, saved teams, resuming saved games, fixing any past ball, and removing all ads — at A$8.95 for 12 months. It is not a subscription. One payment buys a fixed term from a small independent developer to keep the servers running: nothing recurs, no card is stored, and no payment is ever taken automatically. When the term is up, the extras switch off unless you choose to buy another.