How to enter a

scorecard into Play

Cricket

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Table of Contents Adding a score sheet to play cricket ....................................................................................................... 3

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3

How to Enter a score sheet ..................................................................................................................... 3

Access Rights ....................................................................................................................................... 3

Login .................................................................................................................................................... 4

Administration Page ............................................................................................................................ 6

Results ................................................................................................................................................. 6

Result Pages ........................................................................................................................................ 7

Players Names ..................................................................................................................................... 9

New Players....................................................................................................................................... 10

Score Sheet Details ........................................................................................................................... 11

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Adding a score sheet to play cricket

Introduction Play-Cricket is the ECB website system that every affiliated cricket team in England is entitles to use

and set up for their own use. This vast network also encompasses cricket boards, national teams,

representative teams and leagues too, so within the system, we have set up the ECB Disability

cricket leagues.

In order for us to keep complete and accurate performance statistics for all players in our leagues, it

is vital that the score sheets for all games are entered onto the system at the end of games.

We have made the entering on play-cricket a mandatory part of the reporting process of games

within the ECB disability competitions. The HOME TEAM will be responsible for making the entry -

EVEN IF THE GAME IS CANCELLED OR ABANDONED and would ask that it is completed within 48

hours of the fixture - i.e. generally by Tuesday evening following the game.

All games have been set up on play cricket under a league structure. Each team that has entered the

competitions will have a 'presence' on the system.

The way in which it works is that each team will have been 'set up' on the teams independent play

cricket web site. Some teams have totally independent play cricket sites, others, have their teams

set up via their respective cricket boards. Either way, you will be able to reach the fixtures for your

team via that website.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO ACCESS THE BACD PLAY-CRICKET WEBSITE TO ENTER RESULTS OR ANY

OTHER AMENDMENTS.

How to Enter a score sheet

Access Rights Firstly, you will need to have administrator rights to be able to enter score sheets on the site. If you

do not have this, you will need to talk to the main administrator for your site. If your team sits inside

a cricket board play-cricket site, contact your county board development office and establish who

that person is and ask them to give you the access rights to enter your score cards.

You will need to establish who your site administrator is if you have an independent site. The bottom

line is that YOU CANNOT ENTER SCORE SHEETS WITHOUT BEING GIVEN ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS

TO DO SO.

Once you have the correct access rights you need to log in as follows:

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Each play-cricket home page may differ due to the way in which it can be set up. For all the examples within this document, we have

used the BACD league play-cricket site. The process for inputting a score sheet does not differ from site to site

Login

In the top right of the home page is the option to Login. Click here and the following window

appears:

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Enter your Username and Password in the appropriate boxes and click sign-in

Once signed in, you will notice that your name will appear where it once said Login on the top menu

bar. Next to your name is a downward facing triangle. This indicates that there is a small submenu

associated with your log in. If you click here, the menu will be displayed.

The options Edit Account, Site Administration and Logout should appear. If you do not see Site

Administration, then you do not have the correct access rights.

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Administration Page Click on Site Administration

Results On entering the Site Administration page, you will see the page above. Depending on the rights

access that you have been given will depend on how many of the items you see on the left hand

side. The ONLY option we are interested in here is the one called Results. Click on Results

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You will now be faced with a page allowing you to search for a match. The search can be made using

a number of different search masks. You can use the match date, a quick search whereby you find all

the matches in the season, you can specify the division too.

In the example that follows we have selected a specific date during the 2014 season and have

filtered by one specific division.

As you can see, the fixture that I was looking for is displayed. When doing this on your own play-

cricket site, you will only see those fixtures that are relevant to your team(s).

Result Pages If you now click on the 'pencil' icon to edit the result, the following window will be displayed:

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Each scorecard that needs entering has 5 screens to complete. The initial screen is the summary

screen where you enter the overall result. THIS MUST BE COMPLETED IN FULL. The screen shows the

details it knows about the fixture and working down the page, you can enter the names of the

umpires and the scorers.

It maybe that the officials are already known to the system, in which case, click on the appropriate

downward arrow to reveal the umpires known to the system. These are held in alphabetical order by

surname. Just highlight the right name it will populate the field.

If the official isn't listed then you are able to add the name by clicking on the relevant 'add' button

next to the field. You will be given a small window to complete. Once you have done that, the official

will remain on the system.

You will then need to enter the scores for the game indicating who won the toss, who batted first

and which is the home team, all by way of a series of radio buttons.

You must NOT FORGET to indicate the result from the list of all permutations in the result field.

There is also a highlights box. This allows you to free-text if you have players in the game who have

scored worthy innings or taken a number of wickets.

Once you click on the green save button, the system will display the next page. This page is for you

to input the first of the two teams as displayed below:

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Players Names From your hand written result sheet, you now need to enter the names of the players. On the right

side of the screen you will see a number of the players names. These have been set up previously

and should be used if they appear on the score sheet.

To enter a name into the score sheet grid on the left just click on the name as displayed below. The

order you enter the players into the grid does not matter as you have the option to re-order them

on another occasion, however, if you can enter them in batting order it will save you some time:

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New Players If you have players on the score sheet that do not appear in the list, then you have the option to

enter them by using the 'search for player' button just above the name list.

This screen will appear. This gives you the option of searching the player database for the player. If

as a result of a search you were unable to locate the player, just click on the button within the

window entitles 'Add New Member'.

The following window will appear:

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Complete the name details of the player in this window and ensure that you click the box that

indicates that the player will be a member of the squad.

On clicking save, the players name will appear in the score sheet grid. It will also appear in the

players' names grid on the right and, you will be able to select the name from that grid in the future.

Continue to complete the score sheet grid from the result sheet that you have. Once done, you will

need to indicate with a tick, which player is the captain and who is the wicket keeper. This can be the

same person if necessary.

Now click on the save button. You will be directed to the score sheet grid for the opposition. This

page should be completed in exactly the same way as the previous one.

If there are players missing from the right hand players name grid, these can be searched for and

added if necessary in the same way.

Once all completed, again indicating who is captain and wicket keeper, save the page.

You are able to re-order the batsman at this stage by selecting the relevant number on the score

card grid for each players from the drop down list of numbers on the left.

Score Sheet Details You will now need to enter the details of how each batsman was out, who the catcher (if relevant)

and who the bowler is, plus the runs the batsman scored. You can even enter the number of

boundaries scored and the balls faced too!

It is important that the 'how out' details are completed in full including the catcher or the fielder

who produced a run out.

You will also need to enter the extras too, by denomination. The system will add the scores up and

will compare to that total that you entered on the first page. THEY HAVE TO MATCH.

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Further down the page, you will need to enter the fall of each wicket.

This is accompanied by the names of the 'out' batsman and then 'not out' batsman with their

relevant scores at the time of the fall.

THIS SECTION IS NOT MANDATORY - It would be nice to collect but we appreciate that it is not

always possible.

The above screen shows the completed batting section of the first score card screen.

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Below is the bowling part of the same grid. This will hold each bowler, the overs, maidens, runs and

wickets for each bowler and also room for the bowling extras.

Select the bowler from the drop down list and input the bowlers figures as relevant. Repeat this for

each bowler.

You will notice that for each bowler selected the wickets column will automatically fill with the

correct number of wickets taken.

Completed screen for the bowler shown above.

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You now need to complete the same grids for the opposition.

When completing, please make sure that the numbers add up both in the batting grid and the

bowling grid. If they don't add up, a warning box appears and allows you to make the necessary

corrections.

Once the score sheet grids have been completed, click on the save button and a summary screen will

appear as shown below:

That should be it! - The score card will now be complete and will appear as a result in your fixtures

listings.

Play-cricket websites automatically calculate the statistics for each batsman and bowler based on

your input. This is a very useful tool that you can use to compile your own end of season figures.

If you have any queries on entering your score sheets, please just let us know via email at

disabilitcycricket@ecb.co uk or richard.hill@ecb.co.uk and we will get them answered for you