IMMORTALCRICARCADE
TESTRED BALL • 5 DAYS
DG Bradman
Australia · BatterCAREER
RUNS6,996
AVERAGE99.94
HUNDREDS29
Free online cricket strategy gamesCricket is yours to command
Run an IPL auction, draft an ODI World Cup XI, captain a five-day Test. Free, no download.
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Can you build a championship T20 dynasty?
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- Active players · Oct 2026
- 17,000+
- Matches played · Oct 2026
- 200,000+
- Real ODIs behind the engine
- 4,981
- Real T20s behind the engine
- 1,185
- Real Tests behind the engine
- 2,537
New · The Card Vault
Every match earns cards
9,970 real cricketers across Test, ODI, T20I, IPL, BBL and the WPL. Play any mode, earn sealed packs, and tear them open to see who you got. Duplicates level your cards up.
- 01
Finish a match
Every mode pays a card pack from the format you played. A win pays better odds.
- 02
Win something big
A series win pays a bigger pack, and a title pays 8 cards, Epic or better.
- 03
Chase a bounty
150 rungs across every game, from your first 300 in a Test to 5,000 games played.
- 04
Keep coming back
A daily pack, a streak that pays out to 365 days, and weekly goals you can reach in any order.
Coming soonCompete with your cards. Pick a side from the players you own and take on other players.
More ways to play
Different formats, leagues and game modes. Same cricket, more ways to play.
NEWFLAGSHIP MODECricket ManagerTake charge of a nation in Test, ODI and T20I at once, on the real 2026-27 calendar. Pick the squads, name the captains, face the press, and keep a board happy that can sack you.20 nationsThree formats, one squad poolBoard and pressSTART YOUR CAREER 
- 🏴 England
- 🇮🇳 India
- 🇵🇰 Pakistan
- 2008 to 2026
IPL Dynasty
Run one franchise across the IPL seasons, from 2008 to 2026.
- 32 national teams
T20 World Cup Career
Lead your team to global glory in the T20 World Cup.
- NEWSince 2023
WPL Dynasty
Build your dynasty in the Women's Premier League.
- 15 seasons
Big Bash
Build a BBL squad under a hard salary cap and win the auction.
- 1V1Live 1v1
IPL 1v1 Versus
A live snake draft against a real opponent, then captain it out.
- NEWDaily challenge
Higher or Lower
Two cricketers, one stat. Make the call. Plus a daily challenge.
What CricArcade is
You never bat or bowl. You make the calls.
CricArcade is a free cricket strategy platform: ten games and an open archive of real matches, built by one person. You are the captain, the selector and the bidder, setting the field, choosing when to take the new ball, and living with it. The engine plays the cricket; the judgement is yours.
Built and written by Vishal Jaiswal, one person.
- 10Playable modes
- 3Formats: ODI, T20, Test
- 6Eras of Test cricket
- 20Nations to run in Cricket Manager
- 1v1Live drafts against a friend
- FreeNo download, no account
Real cricket underneath.Every player is a real cricketer with their own career record, every scorecard is a match that happened, and every IPL auction lot is a real bid. See the sources
- Real career records
- Real scorecards
- Real auction bids
How one ball is decided
Every delivery weighs the same four things, the same way for every player. Same start, same result, which is why every leaderboard score can be checked.
Batter
Rated from their real career record and recent form.
Bowler
Pace, spin and how tired they are after a long spell.
Situation
Score, wickets in hand, required rate and the phase of the innings.
Conditions
Venue, pitch wear and the age of the ball.
What makes it different
Five things that are true of every mode, and why a cricket fan can trust the result.
Real careers, not sliders
A player's ratings come from what they actually did, across their whole record. A batter who scored heavily against pace and struggled against spin plays that way here, and nobody has hand-tuned a favourite upward.
Browse the player recordsAn engine for each format
A Test, an ODI and a T20 reward different things: patience over five days, pacing over fifty overs, nerve over twenty. So each format gets its own engine, which is why a five-day pitch wears down and a T20 death over feels nothing like an ODI middle over.
See how one ball is decidedSix eras of Test cricket
Batting in 1930 was not batting in 2015. The Test game knows which era it is in and plays accordingly, so an all-time XI is a genuine collision between periods rather than everyone dragged to a modern average.
Captain a TestOpponents that captain back
The AI side rotates its bowlers, protects a tiring spell, attacks a new batter and sets fields to a plan. Beating it is a cricket problem, not a patience problem.
Take on the chaseLeaderboards you can trust
A result submitted to a global leaderboard is re-checked before it stands, so the tables are a record of cricket played rather than of numbers typed.
See the leaderboards
Explore the archive
The games sit on top of a public cricket database, and it is worth a browse on its own.
- 1877Test scorecardsAll 2,537 Tests from 1877 to March 2024, with full innings, partnerships and fall of wickets.Open
- 1971ODI scorecardsAll 4,981 ODIs from 1971 to August 2026, each one a real match, scored ball by ball.Open
- 19IPL auctionsLot by lot, 2008 to 2026, alongside a written history of each franchise.Open
- 13World CupsAll men's editions from 1975 to 2023, with squads, results and how each turned.Open
- 3,274Test cricketersPlus 3,151 ODI, 819 IPL and 526 BBL players, each with the career record the games read from.Open
- 151Test venuesEvery ground in the archive, Test and ODI records merged into one page per venue, with what the surface has historically done to a match.Open
Read and follow along
Three guides to start with, and a plain-language log of everything that ships.
- THE CHASEHow to Draft a World Cup XIThe roll-pick-skip mechanic behind The Chase, the six team templates, and what it actually takes to chase 380 without losing a wicket.4 min read
- T20 FRANCHISE MANAGERHow IPL Auctions WorkPurse caps, retention and overseas-player limits: the mechanics behind a T20 franchise auction, and how the game puts you through the same calls.4 min read
- THE FOLLOW-ONThe Follow-On Rule, ExplainedWhat the follow-on is, when a captain can enforce it, and how the margin has changed since cricket's first Test in 1877.4 min read
Patch notes
Everything that ships is written up in plain language and dated. The full log is on the updates page.
- PATCH 7.7 · Season Highlights and Match Highlights StoriesYour Dynasty season and every T20 match now end with a swipeable highlights story you can share, in the same look as The Chase.
- PATCH 7.6 · Card Packs Below the Header, and Tidier ArticlesThe packs you earn in The Chase now sit inside the results page, and article pages get a cleaner back link and bulleted sources.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about what CricArcade is, how it plays and where the data comes from.
Something else?Ask directly, a person answers.What is CricArcade?
CricArcade is a free, browser-based cricket strategy platform: ten playable modes across ODI, T20 franchise leagues and Test cricket, plus an open archive of 2,537 Test and 4,981 ODI scorecards, player records for every cricketer in them, and written guides to the cricket behind it all.
You never bat or bowl. You captain, select and bid, and the engine plays the match out ball by ball.
What games and modes does CricArcade have?
CricArcade has ten modes. The three main formats are The Chase (ODI), T20 Franchise Manager (T20) and The Follow-On (Test).
The rest are Cricket Manager (Test, ODI and T20I), IPL Dynasty, T20 World Cup Career, WPL Dynasty, Big Bash, IPL 1v1 Versus and Higher or Lower. Each one is described on this page under more ways to play.
How does the CricArcade simulation engine work?
You make the calls a captain makes and the engine plays the match out ball by ball. Every player carries ratings built from their real career record, and each delivery is resolved against those ratings, the match situation, the state of the pitch and the conditions in front of it.
A format has its own engine because the cricket is different: a Test morning and a T20 death over are not the same problem. The same match played again from the same starting point gives the same result, which is what makes leaderboard scores checkable.
Do I need to download an app or create an account to play?
No. Everything runs in any modern desktop or mobile browser with nothing to install.
You can play signed out, with your progress saved on your own device, or sign in with Google to sync careers across devices and appear on the global leaderboards.
What cricket formats and historical eras are covered?
All three major formats. One Day Internationals cover every men's Cricket World Cup from 1975 to 2023 and an archive of 4,981 ODIs from 1971 to August 2026.
T20 covers 19 IPL auctions from 2008 to 2026 and 15 BBL seasons from 2012 to 2026. Test cricket covers 2,537 matches from 1877 to March 2024, across six distinct eras of how the game was played.
Is CricArcade free, and does it involve real money?
CricArcade is free to play and free to read, with no paywall and no premium tier you are nudged towards. It is a game of cricket judgement only: you work with players and budgets inside the game, and no real money is involved.
It is built and run by one person, and the contact page reaches them directly.
Where does the cricket data come from?
Players, scorecards and auction lots come from public cricket records, processed into the archive the games read from. Ratings are built from each player's real career record rather than set by hand.
The sources, the known gaps and any corrections are listed on the data sources page.
Who builds it
CricArcade is built and written by Vishal Jaiswal, one person, from the first line of code to the last word on the page. The first three games began as three separate sites and were merged onto cricarcade.com in August 2026, so that one account, one squad and one leaderboard now carry across every mode. More on the project is on the about page; if a rating looks wrong or something is broken, the contact page reaches me directly.