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Title: Play Cricket Site
Post by: nudgemaster on April 01, 2014, 01:16:50 PM
Hi Guys

Our league are starting to use the Play cricket site for adminsistration of results in 2014.

I am looking for any top tips and a forum for people to answer my questions!

First Question: On the members list some players have a * at the end of their name??
Is this because I have registered them as the administrator??
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: Manormanic on April 01, 2014, 03:57:11 PM
no, its because the people themselves have no registered as members of the site.
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: Gingerbusiness on April 01, 2014, 04:09:52 PM
The new play-cricket site is just an unnecessary evolution of the product. Preferred the old one. Much more user friendly.
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: nudgemaster on April 01, 2014, 04:14:04 PM
Cheers Manor

I thought that must be what it was........ The league are wanting people to register them self.

The guidance states an administrator can do this.....

Our league are not very up on IT.
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: Manormanic on April 01, 2014, 05:34:09 PM
got to be honest, I loved the old one to bits - with no IT skills whatsoever I could maintain it in an hour a week and produce something that looked professional.

The new version....I'm sure it will get better in time, but at the moment I'd say "less so"
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: mattw on April 01, 2014, 05:36:45 PM
The new site is a major step in the wrong direction. It looks very poor - for me it should've stayed as it was, or at least made more so like a stats only website.
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: tejasapatel on April 01, 2014, 05:43:14 PM
Thanks for the Site. I had never heard of this before. Hopefully this is not limited to English cricket and is available for use here in US.

Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: Manormanic on April 01, 2014, 06:27:21 PM
'fraid not!
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: tejasapatel on April 01, 2014, 07:23:51 PM
Well just saw that they do have a "Non-UK" option in the list of counties and found a "Colorado Cricket League" competition listed there.

So there is hope.
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: Manormanic on April 02, 2014, 07:58:06 AM
Actually your right - as long as you're prepared to pay an ECB affiliation fee you can!
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: Simmy on April 02, 2014, 08:08:09 AM
ive got to do this as well its a ball ache.

you have to make them members then add them to the cricket league u need there name address dob etc etc
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: A-Swing-And-A-Miss on April 02, 2014, 08:44:16 AM
Thanks for the Site. I had never heard of this before. Hopefully this is not limited to English cricket and is available for use here in US.

Pitchero might be a decent site for you. It's free I believe and is quite similar to Play Cricket from what I've seen.
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: Rob580 on April 02, 2014, 09:17:04 AM
My club curently seem to have both the New Version of Play Cricket and the Old version!

When our club name is Googled, the first Play Cricket option is the new, hideous, site. And a few results down is the old, lovely, warm, cosy, stats filled, haven that we are all used to. Not sure if this is the same for all clubs, but i doubt anything specific has been done by our club to get the old site to run alongside the new one.....
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: ProCricketer1982 on April 02, 2014, 09:19:45 AM
Pitchero might be a decent site for you. It's free I believe and is quite similar to Play Cricket from what I've seen.

depends if your league demands play cricket use AND if you want the stats to be decent. Pitchero is better for a 'selling' website but not for stats
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: TangoWhiskey on April 02, 2014, 09:22:28 AM
I use Hittsports for my Clubs one. It takes almost nothing to keep running, connects directly to the clubs social media so all you have to do is input the scores and update the announcements. It also allows for availabilities for matches to be updated on the site as well as producing team sheets and emails. A bit pricey at £70 a year but its so easy to use and maintain.
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: tejasapatel on April 02, 2014, 12:51:44 PM
I also looked into a site called cricHQ which has a companion app for smartphones to do the scoring. It looks very good.


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Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: uknsaunders on April 02, 2014, 02:08:01 PM
depends if your league demands play cricket use AND if you want the stats to be decent. Pitchero is better for a 'selling' website but not for stats

Stats are being upgraded all the time and that's the only feature it beats Pitchero on, if you want your mode of dismissal in a pie chart as opposed to a bar graph.  Everything else is significantly better and the new payments function is a game changer. In terms of promoting your club and making revenue from the site, Pitchero is way ahead. Even has iphone/android apps. Only thing holding it back is the lack of leagues setup on the platform, a few are and it works very well but they have been slow to embrace league sites.
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: nudgemaster on April 10, 2014, 08:57:32 PM
ive got to do this as well its a ball ache.

you have to make them members then add them to the cricket league u need there name address dob etc etc

And you get busted by the league if you use the club postcode and address for players!!

Who Wins the first division Simmy???? Kirkby??
Title: Re: Play Cricket Site
Post by: kennym66 on April 10, 2014, 09:20:57 PM
I also looked into a site called cricHQ which has a companion app for smartphones to do the scoring. It looks very good.


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We are about to use CricHQ for the first time this season in our league, its come over from New Zealand. By the sound of it they are signing up quite a few leagues this year.