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About CricArcade

Three cricket games, one XI, one leaderboard. Free, no install, no account needed to play.

What this is

CricArcade is a set of cricket management simulations. You pick a squad and make the calls a captain makes, and a simulation engine plays the match out ball by ball. There is no twitch skill and no pay-to-win: the only thing being tested is whether your cricket judgement was any good.

The archive

Alongside the games sits an archive of 2,538 Test match scorecards, every one a real match, searchable and free to read. It is the reference the Test game is built on and it is worth a browse on its own.

3
Games, one engine
1,000+
Real matches modelled
2,538
Test scorecards archived
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Things you pay for

How the simulation works

CricArcade runs on our own proprietary match engine, built from ball-by-ball data spanning 1,000+ real matches. Every player carries ratings derived from real career records, and the engine resolves each ball against those ratings, the match situation and the conditions in front of it.

Who builds it

One person. Vishal Jaiswal, in evenings and weekends. The three games started as three separate sites and were merged onto cricarcade.com in August 2026 so that one account, one squad and one leaderboard carry across all of them.

Shipped changes are logged in updates. If something is broken or a rating looks wrong, the fastest way to reach me is the contact page or Discord.

How it stays free

Ads, and nothing else. There is no paywall on any game, no ad-free tier you are being nudged towards, and nothing on this site is a betting product. What the ads may collect, and how to say no, is set out in the cookie policy.