Cricket tournament software and live scoring

In cricket the entry is a team of eleven with a wider squad behind it. Each club, school or academy registers its team against the tournament listing, names its players and pays the entry fee online. Eligibility, such as the age limit for a category, is checked as players register, so an ineligible player is caught before the toss rather than after the match.

For an association, the squad is drawn from players who are already members. Zeetius Federation keeps one record for every player, club and official across seasons, with renewals and transfers kept current, so a player who changes club is registered for the right side. At multi-day events, Zeetius Connect accredits players, coaches and team staff in advance and handles their entry, meals and accommodation with QR validation.

Umpires and scorers are part of the same record. Technical official management nominates and allocates umpires to each fixture, so the organiser knows who is standing at which ground and nobody is booked for two matches at once. On a weekend with T20 matches running back to back, that also shows which umpires are free for the afternoon fixture.

Cricket on Zeetius is scored live on the Zeetius multi-sport scoresheet by a scorer at the ground. After the toss decides which side bats first, the score builds innings by innings, and parents, teams and supporters who are not at the ground follow it on the public live score board at zeetius.com/live/livescore.

Each cricket match appears as a live card with a line for each side showing runs, wickets and overs, and the team currently batting is marked. While the first side bats the card shows its run rate. Once the second side is chasing, the card shows the runs needed, the balls remaining and the required run rate, which is the figure most followers of a limited-overs match want to see.

The score is entered once, at the ground, so the result moves into the fixtures and the competition record without anyone copying it from the scorebook at the end of the day. In a pool stage, teams waiting to find out whether they have reached the semi-finals see the result as soon as the last ball of the chase is bowled.

• Innings score. Runs and wickets for each side with the overs bowled, the total including extras such as wides, no-balls, byes and leg byes.
• The chase. Runs needed from balls remaining, with the required run rate.
• Every ground on one board. Filter the live score board by sport and tournament to follow a single event.

Cricket academies run batches by age and by discipline, with batting, bowling and wicketkeeping sessions often taking place in the nets at the same time. Zeetius Academy holds a profile for every player, records attendance at each session and keeps assessments over the term, so coaches can see who is progressing and who needs more work.

Training plans and timetables are built once and run across batches, coaches and centres. Parents see their own child's attendance, assessments and fees, and fees, coach payroll and expense claims are handled in the same system as the training. Academies with more than one centre can manage each separately and see the whole organisation together.

Academies can also run internal matches and manage entries to outside tournaments through competition management, so a player's academy record and match record sit side by side instead of in separate files kept by different coaches. Selecting a squad for an under-16 tournament then starts from the attendance and assessments the coaches have already recorded.