Frequently Asked Questions

StatBat is an app for scoring cricket and keeping the record that comes out of it — players, teams, ball-by-ball matches, tournaments, and the batting, bowling and fielding figures they produce. It is built for the games that never make it onto a scoreboard: street, tape-ball, office and club cricket.

No. There is no sign-up, no login and no server. Scoring works completely offline, so you can score a whole match in a ground with no signal. The only things that use the internet are the advertisements and crash reports.

In a database on this device only. Your profile, players, teams, matches, tournaments and statistics are never uploaded anywhere. StatBat does report crashes so faults can be fixed, and it does show ads — but neither of those carries the cricket data you enter.

No. There is no automatic backup, no cloud copy and no export, so what is on the device is all there is. If your phone's own backup is switched on, the system may include the app's data in it — that copy belongs to your device settings and to Google, not to us.

Everything goes with it, including the photos the app copied into its own storage. Because your records live only on this device, uninstalling removes them permanently and nobody can recover them afterwards — us included.

Delete a player, team, match or tournament from inside the app to remove that one record, or use Erase All Data in Settings to clear everything at once. Both are permanent: there is no recently-deleted list and no undo.

So it knows which player in a scorecard is you. My Profile also records the team you play for, along with your playing role and your batting and bowling styles. It is not an account — there is nothing to sign in to, and none of it leaves the device.

Yes. A player profile can hold a photo, and a team can hold a logo. Both stay on your device like everything else. A photograph is still somebody else's likeness, so please add it only if they are happy for you to keep it, and remove it if they ask.

Yes. You can create as many teams and players as you like on one device, put squads together, and follow how each of them performs over time.

Yes — that is what the app is built around. Runs, extras, wickets, retirements and super overs are all recorded ball by ball, and you can undo a delivery you entered by mistake.

Yes. Create a tournament, add teams, generate round robin, group or knockout fixtures, and follow the standings and results through to the final.

Through the Player Rankings and Team Rankings in Settings, and through each player's own stats screen, where batting and bowling figures are broken down by career and by format.

From the statistics you have entered, and nothing else. Rankings compare players and teams on the records the app holds, so they move as more matches are scored — and a match nobody finished scoring will pull them off.

No. Every number comes from balls that somebody typed in, and the app has no way to check them. If a result or a statistic matters to somebody, settle it between yourselves rather than treating the app's screen as the last word.

No. It is for the matches you and your friends play, not for international or professional cricket, and it is not connected to any board, league or scoring service.

They are what pays for the app. StatBat is free, with no subscription and no paid features, and the advertisements supplied by Google AdMob cover the cost of building it and keeping it running.

No. Your profile, your players and their photos, and every match, score and statistic stay on the device. Google's ad service receives only what it needs to serve an ad — your device's advertising ID, your IP address, general device information, and how you interacted with the ads it showed.

Yes. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or switch ad personalisation off entirely, in your device's own settings, and on iOS you can decline the tracking prompt. Ads will still appear — they will simply be chosen from context instead. Where the law requires consent, a message from Google asks first.

No. With no connection no ad loads, and the app carries on as normal — scoring never needs the internet. When you are online, ads use mobile data like anything else.

Two things, and neither one contains your cricket data. Advertisements are requested from Google AdMob, and if the app crashes a report goes to Sentry describing the error, the screen it happened on, the device model and the app version. The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.

So it can remind you before a match you have scheduled. On Android it also asks to schedule exact alarms and to start after a restart, so a reminder you have already set still arrives if the phone reboots before the match. Refusing only costs you the reminders.

Only when you choose a picture for a player or a team. The app takes the single image you pick, copies it into its own storage, and never looks at the rest of your library.

Anyone keeping a record of cricket that nobody else is recording — street and tape-ball players, school and academy sides, office teams, and local clubs.

Write to at.aurictech@gmail.com. Feedback from people scoring real matches is what shapes this app.