Which club apps work with Play-Cricket? What each one actually syncs.

Declaration: I built MVP Cricket, one of the apps compared here. Every other app’s details come from its own published documentation, linked in the table.

Play-Cricket stays your official record

Play-Cricket is the ECB’s system for recreational cricket in England and Wales. Leagues run their fixtures and tables on it, scorers score into it, and every affiliated club has a site on it with its own site ID. A club app doesn’t replace any of that. It reads from Play-Cricket and does the things Play-Cricket doesn’t: who’s available, who’s picked, who’s paid, and what the squad talks about between games.

What “Play-Cricket integration” can mean

The phrase covers everything from a one-off import to a daily sync of every scorecard. In rising order:

1. Fixtures imported once, which you then keep up to date by hand.
2. Fixtures kept in sync, so rearranged games update themselves.
3. Results brought in after each game.
4. Full scorecards: every innings, bowler and dismissal.
5. Player stats and points, built from those scorecards.

All of the integrations here run one way: they read from Play-Cricket and none says it writes back.

Club apps compared

What each app says it syncs, from its own documentation, checked 11 October 2026. “Not stated” means the vendor doesn’t say, not that the feature is missing.

Why the sync after match day matters

A scorecard isn’t finished when the players leave the ground. Scorers correct it, captains confirm results, and league administrators tidy records, sometimes weeks later. At Brookweald in the 2026 season:

• 79%Of matches last changed 2+ days after the game
• 49%Changed more than a week later
• 13 daysTypical gap, for those changed late

That’s 42 of 53 matches. Play-Cricket’s timestamp counts any change to the match record, not only scorecard corrections, but every one of them is a change an app that imports once, or only on match day, will never see. If your stats or leaderboard matter to your players, ask whether the app goes back and re-checks matches it has already imported.

Why apps sync such different things

Two facts from the ECB explain most of the differences:

• Access is by agreement. The ECB provides its API to clubs and leagues for their own data, and to a set of partners in exchange for data sharing. It doesn’t onboard start-up products, and suggests smaller ones let each club add its own API token. Data-sharing agreements have been tightened since GDPR came in, in 2018. So some apps can only offer an import, and some ask for your token rather than just your site ID.
• There’s no stats feed. The API gives clubs full scorecards, but the ECB says it offers “no endpoints for statistics, which remains a Play-Cricket only functionality”. Any app showing player stats is building them from the scorecards it has synced. If it skips cup games, friendlies or some of your teams, its numbers won’t match Play-Cricket’s averages.

It also isn’t real-time: the ECB recommends fetching results once after the game and syncing other data overnight.

Club apps vs scoring apps

Play-Cricket’s scoring apps, Play-Cricket Scorer (PCS) and PCS Pro, made by the ECB’s scoring partners Frogbox and NV Play, score the match ball by ball and can feed a ground’s scoreboard. Club apps run everything around the match. Most clubs use both: the scorer scores in PCS, the scorecard lands in Play-Cricket, and the club app picks it up from there.

How to check an app’s Play-Cricket claims before you switch

1. Ask exactly what it syncs: fixtures, results, full scorecards, league tables, stats.
2. Ask how often, and whether it re-checks matches it has already imported.
3. Ask what it needs from you: a site ID, your own API token, or a file you download and upload.
4. Check cup matches and friendlies, not just league games.
5. Test it on last season during a trial: do the stats match Play-Cricket’s?
6. Check name matching: what happens when a player is spelled differently in the app and on the scorecard?

Where MVP Cricket fits

MVP Cricket syncs fixtures, results and full scorecards every morning, re-checks recently played matches, and builds stats and MVP points from every scorecard, on every plan including Free. You connect it with your site ID and nothing else. How the sync works.

Where it’s weaker: it has no website builder, it’s for cricket only, and it installs from the browser rather than the App Store. If you need a club website or run several sports, Pitchero, Teamo or Spond may suit you better; the comparisons with Spond, Teamo and Pitchero set out the trade-offs and costs.

Questions clubs ask

Sources

• ECB: Do you have an API to access Play-Cricket data?
• ECB: Play-Cricket API access for commercial and non-profit projects
• Liverpool & District Cricket Competition: ECB update on API agreements and GDPR (15 March 2018)
• MVP Cricket: Play-Cricket integration
• ClubSports365: Play-Cricket integration (6 Nov 2025)
• Teamo: summer 2023 product update
• Teamo help: recording season statistics
• Teamo help: importing fixtures
• Pitchero: connect your club website to Play-Cricket (21 Apr 2021)
• Pitchero: pricing (lists the official Play-Cricket integration)
• Spond: cricket team management with Play-Cricket (6 Feb 2024)
• ClubWiz: App Store listing

App details checked 11 October 2026 from each vendor’s own pages; older sources are dated. Features change, so check with the vendor before you decide. The Brookweald figures come from Play-Cricket’s own last-updated times for the club’s 2026 matches. Spotted something out of date? Email hello@mvpcricket.app.