Bench Buddy
Bench Buddy Cricket

Junior cricket, scored with confidence.

Your club organises the season’s fixtures. Coaches manage teams and player availability. On match day, changes are easy to manage, scoring is simple to follow, and every player gets a fair opportunity to play.

The scorecard in Bench Buddy Cricket: batting pairs, runs and balls, and the bowling figures
Live scoring in Bench Buddy Cricket: the score, the pair at the crease, this over, and one-tap run buttons
Match day

Hand the phone to any parent.

Each ball is one tap on one screen. Pairs, overs and who is on strike are tracked, so a parent can pick it up mid-game without knowing the scoring rules.

  • Big run buttons, with undo if a tap goes wrong
  • The score and this over always on screen
  • Parents follow along from the boundary
Get your club started
Live scoring: the score, the pair at the crease, this over, and one-tap run buttons
The live scoring screen

Everyone else's part is just as simple.

Pick the one you'd be doing: parent, coach or club admin.

App screen: a parent's home with the next match and the In and Out buttons for availability
Parents

Reply to availability in one tap

Open the link your coach shared, pick your child and see every fixture in one place.

App screen: the batting line-up, with pairs, who turned up and the opening bowler to choose
Coach

Ready before the umpire is

Pick the fixture, check who is here today and set the batting order.

App screen: match settings during a match, asking what you need to change, with Someone's arrived and Add overs
Coach

Late arrival? Add them mid-match

The batting order and overs update for both teams.

App screen: step 3 of the season draw, with the playing weeks, the summer holidays switched off and a Generate Draw button
Club admin

Set the season up once

Create competitions with their own rules, add squads and load fixtures for every team.

Early clubs

We're looking for the first clubs to run it this season.

We set it up with you

Your competitions, scoring rules and squads, loaded before your first fixture.

Your coaches shape it

What your volunteers find on Saturday decides what we build next.

A direct line

You talk to the coach who built it, not a support queue.

Anyone your coach hands the match to. They sign in with an emailed link, then each ball is one tap, and pairs, overs and strike are tracked, so a parent can pick it up mid-game.

A parent in a folding chair watching a junior cricket match at a club ground, with other families on the sideline
Built for real Saturday mornings

Scoring shouldn't need a training course.

Scoring tools tend to be built for the people who run the competition. Bench Buddy is built for the parent who gets handed the phone at 9:25 on Saturday morning. Made by a volunteer coach, it is meant to make sense the first time they open it.

Get your club started.

Tell us a bit about your club. We'll be in touch soon to set up your first competition with you.

Junior teams this season

Just a coach? Send it anyway and we'll help you make the case to your committee.

Bench Buddy FootballFair rotations. Less thinking. More time enjoying the game.
Basketball and netballComing later. Same idea, built with the clubs who ask for them.