# Play-Cricket Live

> Live cricket scores and statistics from Play-Cricket.com. (iPhone/iPad app by England and Wales Cricket Board Ltd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-cricket-live/id1266121457 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [England and Wales Cricket Board Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/710535316)
- Category: Sports
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 27 App Store ratings · 93 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 12.0 · 55 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2017-08-04
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-cricket-live/id1266121457/reviews.md

## What is Play?

Play-Cricket Live is the easy way to keep up-to-date with live scored matches on Play-Cricket.com. Using Play-Cricket Live, you can access detailed scores for In Progress games being scored or streamed through Play-Cricket Scorer (and PCS Pro), or any upcoming and completed matches that have been submitted to Play-Cricket.com.

Features:
- Search, modify and follow your preferred clubs or leagues in the Play-Cricket Live app.
- View live scores and results in detail, with full innings scorecards including batting, bowling, fielding and fall of wicket information.
- View Manhattan graphs, score worms and ball-by-ball commentary for live matches.
- Add upcoming matches to your device’s calendar.
- Share scores on social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter.
- View daily match dashboard for all your favourite teams and competitions
- Consume live streams and highlights from matches of your favourite teams

## Key features

- Live score tracking
- Detailed scorecards
- Ball-by-ball commentary
- Match statistics
- Calendar integration
- Social media sharing

## What do users think of Play?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 👍 Good for tracking grandson's team
- 👍 Good for keeping informed about local club
- 👍 Helps track progression
- 👍 Good to see stats
- 👍 Excellent app
- 👍 Great app for checking everything
- 👍 Amazing
- 👍 Mint
- 👍 User friendly
- 👍 Amazing
- 👍 Class
- 👍 Excellent App
- 👍 Love this app
- 👍 Fantastic when it works

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashing frequently
- 🐛 Unreliable and temperamental
- 🐛 Cumbersome and difficult to navigate
- 🐛 Freezes often, especially during matches
- 🐛 Live scores not updating or showing
- 🐛 Login issues and frequent sign-ins
- 🐛 Poor user experience and UI
- 🐛 Inconsistent performance across devices
- 🐛 Slow to load and refresh
- 🐛 Difficulty finding specific information
- 🐛 App stops working
- 🐛 No clear explanation for administrators
- 🐛 Does not remember login
- 🐛 Data not always live or accurate
- 🐛 Match stream tab is blank
- 🐛 Cannot see team sheets on app
- 🐛 Unusable on Saturdays
- 🐛 Ball by ball not working
- 🐛 Scorecards unavailable
- 🐛 SSL errors
- 🐛 Clunky and difficult to use
- 🐛 No live data
- 🐛 Can only see scores, no other info
- 🐛 Fixtures not refreshing
- 🐛 App fails to cope on Saturdays
- 🐛 Difficult to navigate
- 🐛 App works differently on iPad and iPhone
- 🐛 Irritating refresh
- 🐛 Absolutely useless
- 🐛 Not consistent
- 🐛 Slow responsiveness
- 🐛 Temperamental
- 🐛 Instant failures
- 🐛 Not very user friendly
- 🐛 Cannot change teams or update players easily
- 🐛 Rarely works
- 🐛 Doesn't recognise registration/login
- 🐛 Poor functionality
- 🐛 Slow and unreliable
- 🐛 Nightmare to navigate
- 🐛 Worst app ever
- 🐛 Impossible to navigate
- 🐛 Login system requires frequent sign-in
- 🐛 Cannot see player stats without signing up
- 🐛 Constant problems
- 🐛 Never lets me view live games
- 🐛 Always crashing
- 🐛 Rules link disappears
- 🐛 Gives less information than website
- 🐛 Live not working
- 🐛 Possibly the worst app
- 🐛 Always slow to update scores
- 🐛 Glitchy and crap
- 🐛 Doesn't display correct score
- 🐛 Multiple sign-ins for stats
- 🐛 Cannot log in
- 🐛 Network errors
- 🐛 Doesn't update quickly
- 🐛 Impossible to find match details
- 🐛 Defaults to first game of season
- 🐛 Not accessible using speech on iPhone
- 🐛 Constantly no scorecard data
- 🐛 Tricky to navigate
- 🐛 Major redesign is a disaster
- 🐛 Changes have not improved it

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Some matches don’t show up properly
- App keeps crashing
- App won’t refresh
- App defaults to a season from three years ago
- Needs delegating and reinstalling
- Fickle whether it shows live scoring or streaming
- Refreshing and reopening sometimes works, not always
- Viewing player stats requires extra sign-in
- Not updated live
- Freezes within 9 overs
- Unable to view scorecards
- Information lost off the bottom of the screen on iPhone 13
- Score on summary screen never matches detail
- Frequent SSL errors
- Almost impossible to follow a match from start to finish
- Clitchy
- No live data
- App stops working most weeks
- App immediately refreshes fixtures updated via website
- Rarely works properly on a Saturday afternoon
- Keeps crashing on Saturdays
- Keeps freezing
- Irritating when refresh requires going back to tab
- Match Stream tab is always blank
- Issue with iPhone 15, unable to see detail score or set-up
- Fails to load pages
- Fails to show scores on summary page
- Temperamental, often can’t see scorecards
- Cannot see anything beyond dashboard on Saturday
- Rarely works
- Games don’t appear to be working
- Live score disappears halfway through an innings
- Doesn’t recognise registration/email/password
- App doesn’t function properly
- Slow and unreliable, especially on Saturday
- Cannot access scoreboards
- Dashboard is way behind detail
- Cannot log in
- Nightmare to navigate
- Login system requires frequent sign-in
- Ball by ball still not working
- Often goes offline when following a game
- Never lets me view live games
- Always crashing
- Scroll down to rules, link disappears behind footer banner
- Live not working
- Always slow to update scores
- Glitchy
- Doesn't display correct score half the time
- Multiple sign-ins for stats
- Cannot log in
- Network errors
- Doesn't update quickly
- Impossible to find match details
- Defaults to first game of season
- Not accessible using speech on iPhone
- Constantly no scorecard data
- Ball by ball says innings not started but summary gives current score
- Tricky to navigate
- Major redesign is a disaster
- Cannot find anything of use
- App stops working most weeks
- Fixtures not refreshing
- App fails to cope on Saturdays
- Keeps freezing
- Irritating when refresh requires going back to tab
- Match Stream tab is always blank
- Issue with iPhone 15, unable to see detail score or set-up
- Fails to load pages
- Fails to show scores on summary page
- Temperamental, often can’t see scorecards
- Cannot see anything beyond dashboard on Saturday
- Rarely works
- Games don’t appear to be working
- Live score disappears halfway through an innings
- Doesn’t recognise registration/email/password
- App doesn’t function properly
- Slow and unreliable, especially on Saturday
- Cannot access scoreboards
- Dashboard is way behind detail
- Cannot log in
- Nightmare to navigate
- Login system requires frequent sign-in
- Ball by ball still not working
- Often goes offline when following a game
- Never lets me view live games
- Always crashing
- Scroll down to rules, link disappears behind footer banner
- Live not working
- Always slow to update scores
- Glitchy
- Doesn't display correct score half the time
- Multiple sign-ins for stats
- Cannot log in
- Network errors
- Doesn't update quickly
- Impossible to find match details
- Defaults to first game of season
- Not accessible using speech on iPhone
- Constantly no scorecard data
- Ball by ball says innings not started but summary gives current score
- Tricky to navigate
- Major redesign is a disaster
- Cannot find anything of use

**Most requested features**

- Live activity for chosen match on Watch, phone, and CarPlay
- Improvement in Play Cricket for grassroots cricket
- Option to select a favorite for the season
- Easier way to view leagues and personal statistics
- Make live scoring more accessible
- Allow customisation to view matches in other leagues/age groups
- Better loading of ball-by-ball updates
- More ways to click on scorecards and teams
- Ability to link accounts or do more on the app instead of directing to website
- Make app more user-friendly
- Improve navigation and usability
- Make it easier to find information
- Allow viewing team sheets on the app
- Record junior matches live on the app
- Fix login system to remember users
- Improve stability and user-friendliness between app and web version
- Make it easier to change teams and update players
- Improve accessibility for speech on iPhone
- Make it easier to find individual matches
- Allow removal of favorites
- Make it easier to find specific matches
- Improve live score updates
- Make match suspension due to rain clearer

## Recent user reviews (10 of 93)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-cricket-live/id1266121457/reviews.md

### 5/5 — First Season

*2026-08-01*

This was Christian’s first season with CCC, and after a tentative start getting to know the boys, he has fitted in well. He had been playing in a small garden, learning the rudiments from his grampy, but his game is improving thanks to some good coaching. 
Looking forward to 2027.

### 5/5 — Great to keep up to date

*2026-07-04*

Keeps you up to date with all your teams

### 1/5 — The worst app ever!!!

*2026-06-27*

Without doubt the worst app I use on a regular basis. It is clunky, glitchy, slow. There is no intuition in its design. The score on the dashboard never reflects the actual score of the match. It regularly crashes leaving followers without match updates for hours on end. It forgets my teams and competitions and thinks it’s 2022 forcing me to update almost every time I open the app.

### 1/5 — Very confusing

*2026-05-19, version 3.6.2*

No clear explanation of setting a club up if you’re an administrator or whether you can amend teams set to by leagues for fixtures purposes or even what To use Live app or Score app for. People who set these apps up need to think a lot more about this

### 2/5 — So much to improve

*2026-05-10*

The ECB made much of their partnership with Cognizant being focused on grass roots cricket, not seen any improvements in Play Cricket yet..  Can we get a live activity for a chosen match to make it easier to follow on Watch, phone and in CarPlay.  Can you also just fix the fact that some matches don’t show up properly and you need to search for them in one of the team’s fixture list.

### 1/5 — They need to make it so much better

*2026-05-04, version 3.5.1*

Terrible app. So temperamental and never works properly. Nowadays it must be much easier to make an app like this with very little money….

### 1/5 — Bad interface

*2026-05-02*

There’s scope for lot of improvement and more user friendly UI

### 1/5 — Cr-app

*2026-04-26, version 3.5.1*

It’s cumbersome , keeps crashing, never find wha you are looking for toy keep having to close down app and go back through it all as it won’t refresh. 
Total waste of time I’ll just use the club’s WhatsApp to follow the scores.

### 2/5 — Dreadful app

*2026-04-18*

It’s dreadful, so painful to get to see a live match score - an old app which is about right for the ECB, don’t care about grass roots and have no performance management of England sides full stop.
Cricket will not exist in England over the next couple of decades unless you get rid of all the old white haired men involved.

### 1/5 — How to select a Favourite for 2026?

*2026-03-10, version 3.4.8*

There is no option to select a favourite for the 2026 season. This app is unusable.

## Frequently asked questions about Play

### What does Play-Cricket Live do?

Play-Cricket Live allows you to keep up-to-date with live scored cricket matches from Play-Cricket.com. You can view detailed scores, innings scorecards, and ball-by-ball commentary for ongoing, upcoming, and completed matches.

### What are the key features of Play-Cricket Live?

Key features include searching and following your favorite clubs or leagues, viewing live scores and detailed results with full innings scorecards, accessing Manhattan graphs and score worms, adding matches to your calendar, sharing scores on social media, and viewing live streams and highlights.

### Is Play-Cricket Live free to use?

Yes, the application is free to use. The provided data indicates that it does not have in-app purchases or advertisements, suggesting a completely free experience for users.

### What kind of match information can I see?

You can view detailed live scores, full innings scorecards including batting, bowling, and fielding statistics, fall of wicket information, Manhattan graphs, score worms, and ball-by-ball commentary for live matches.

### Can I use this app for upcoming or past matches?

Yes, you can access information for upcoming and completed matches that have been submitted to Play-Cricket.com. You can also add upcoming matches to your device's calendar for easy tracking.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.6.3 — 2026-08-06

- Bug fixes and improvements

### 3.6.2 — 2026-05-16

Bug fixes and improvements

### 3.6.1 — 2026-05-12

Bug fixes and improvements

### 3.6.0 — 2026-05-08

Bug fixes and improvements

### 3.5.1 — 2026-04-21

- Bug fixes and improvements

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