Three Free Cricket Games. One XI.
Master ODI Cricket (World Cup), T20 Franchise Leagues (IPL, BBL & more), and 5-Day Test Cricket in three tactical simulators. One handle across all formats. Free, no download.
T20 LeaguesT20 Franchise Manager
IPL · BBL & Global Franchises
Can you build a championship T20 dynasty?
Play
- Active players · Sep 2026
- 8,000+
- Matches played · Sep 2026
- 100,000+
- IPL Dynasty runs to
- 2050
- Real ODIs behind the engine
- 4,981
- Real Tests behind the engine
- 2,537
THE IDEA
What CricArcade is
CricArcade is a set of cricket management games and an open cricket archive, run by one person and free to everyone. You are never the batter or the bowler. You are the person picking the side, setting the field, deciding whether to take the new ball now or hold it for the morning, and living with it. The engine plays the cricket; the judgement is yours.
Three games cover the three formats, because the three formats ask different questions. The Chase is a World Cup draft and a run chase, where the cost of a wicket changes every over. T20 Franchise Manager is an auction and a season, where the squad you buy in February decides what you can do in May. The Follow-On is five days, where the hardest call of the match is usually the one about time rather than runs.
Under all of it sits real cricket. Every player is a real cricketer carrying their own career record, every Test and ODI scorecard in the archive is a match that actually happened, and every IPL auction lot is a real bid. Nothing here is generated for flavour. That archive is free to read whether you ever play a match or not.
PLAY
The three games
NEWT20 World Cup Career: take over any of 32 national teams, play two seasons of T20I series, qualify for the 2028 World Cup and keep going, with real squads and the same player cards as IPL Dynasty.
THE DIFFERENCE
What makes it different
Real careers, not sliders.A player's ratings come from what they actually did, across their whole record. A batter who scored heavily against pace and struggled against spin plays that way here, and nobody has hand-tuned a favourite upward.
A separate engine per format.One engine stretched across ODI, T20 and Test cricket produces Test matches that behave like long T20s. Each format is modelled on its own terms, which is why a five-day pitch degrades and a T20 death over does not feel like an ODI middle over.
Six eras of Test cricket.Batting in 1930 was not batting in 2015. The Test game knows which era it is in and plays accordingly, so an all-time XI is a genuine collision between periods rather than everyone dragged to a modern average.
Opponents that captain back.The AI side rotates its bowlers, protects a tiring spell, attacks a new batter and sets fields to a plan. Beating it is a cricket problem, not a patience problem.
Leaderboards you can trust.A result submitted to a global leaderboard is re-checked before it stands, so the tables are a record of cricket played rather than of numbers typed.
THE ARCHIVE
Explore the archive
Test and ODI archives
2,537 Test scorecards (1877 to March 2024) and 4,981 ODIs (1971 to August 2026), every one a real match, with full innings, partnerships and fall of wickets.Venues
Every ground that has staged a Test or an ODI in the archive, Test and ODI records merged into one page per venue, with what the surface has historically done to a match.Player database
3,271 Test cricketers, 3,151 ODI cricketers, 819 IPL and 526 BBL players, each with the career record the games read from.IPL auctions and franchises
19 auctions from 2008 to 2026, lot by lot, alongside a written history of each franchise.World Cups
All 13 men's World Cups from 1975 to 2023, each with its squads, its results and how the tournament actually turned.Guides
33 written guides on the cricket the games are built from: the follow-on, auction economics, chasing, captaincy and how a pitch changes over five days.
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SHIPPED
Latest updates
- PATCH 2.9 · 6 OCTOBER 2026T20 World Cup: Fitness and Rotation, Vice-Captains, Squads That Change Between SeriesTwo of a team's series could run over each other, which locked the squad screen and sent you back and forth between opponents. That is fixed, and every side's players now tire and recover, so rotating a bowler is a real decision, for you and for the AI.
- PATCH 2.7 · 5 OCTOBER 2026T20 World Cup: A Fixed Opening Schedule With Real SeriesYour first two seasons (2026-28) used to be drawn at random every time you started a career. They are now the same for everyone, and the series already announced are in on their real dates.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
What is CricArcade?
CricArcade is a free, browser-based cricket platform built around three tactical simulators: The Chase, an ODI World Cup draft and run chase; T20 Franchise Manager, an auction and season game across the IPL, the BBL and other leagues; and The Follow-On, a five-day Test captaincy game. Alongside the games sits an open archive of 2,537 Test and 4,981 ODI scorecards, player records for every cricketer in them, and written guides to the cricket behind it all.
How does the CricArcade simulation engine work?
You make the calls a captain makes and the engine plays the match out ball by ball. Every player carries ratings built from their real career record, and each delivery is resolved against those ratings, the match situation, the state of the pitch and the conditions in front of it. A format has its own engine because the cricket is different: a Test morning and a T20 death over are not the same problem. The same match played again from the same starting point gives the same result, which is what makes leaderboard scores checkable.
Do I need to download an app or create an account to play?
No. Everything runs in any modern desktop or mobile browser with nothing to install. You can play signed out, with your progress saved on your own device, or sign in with Google to sync careers across devices and appear on the global leaderboards.
What cricket formats and historical eras are covered?
All three major formats. One Day Internationals cover every men's Cricket World Cup from 1975 to 2023 and an archive of 4,981 ODIs from 1971 to August 2026. T20 covers 19 IPL auctions from 2008 to 2026 and 15 BBL seasons from 2012 to 2026. Test cricket covers 2,537 matches from 1877 to March 2024, across six distinct eras of how the game was played.
THE MAKER
Who builds it
CricArcade is built and written by Vishal Jaiswal, one person, from the first line of code to the last word on the page. The three games began as three separate sites and were merged onto cricarcade.com in August 2026, so that one account, one squad and one leaderboard now carry across all of them. More on the project is on the about page; if a rating looks wrong or something is broken, the contact page reaches me directly.
It stays free on advertising alone. There is no paywall on any game, no ad-free tier you are being nudged towards, and nothing here is a betting product.