Multi-sport breadth, or cricket depth.
If the auction, the entry fees and the fixtures are the work, a cricket-only platform goes further.
The short answer
Pick on how much of your work is cricket-specific
A platform that covers many sports has to model all of them. A platform that covers one can model that one properly. Neither is better in the abstract.
Choose a multi-sport platform when
You run several sports and want one system for all of them.
- One admin, one login, one bill
- Breadth across every competition
- Cricket specifics may arrive late
- Check its auction support directly
Choose CricketOrganizer when
Cricket is the only sport, and the auction is the work.
- Purses, base prices, sets, squad reserve
- Entry fees to your own UPI ID
- Overs per innings from 5 to 20
- Free to 3 teams, auction included
What you get here
Six things a cricket-only platform can afford to do properly
Each of these is checked against what the software actually does today, not against a roadmap.
A live player auction, not a draft spreadsheet
One console runs the room. Bids are taken on tiered increments, sets group the players who come up together, and every bid is checked against the purse before it reaches the board.
A purse the server enforces
A team has to keep back enough to fill the squad slots it still owes at the cheapest base price left in the pool. A bid that would strand it is refused, and each owner sees that ceiling in their own hub.
Entry fees that land in your account
Players pay your own UPI ID from the registration form and upload the proof. You approve or reject each one. The money never passes through us and we take no share of it.
A registration form you build
Locked core fields plus your own: jersey size, locality, unavailable dates, whatever your event actually needs. Four answer types, each field required or optional.
Fixtures at the format you are really running
Round robin, knockout or group plus knockout, with venues and time slots, and an overs-per-innings setting of 5, 6, 8, 10, 15 or 20 alongside wickets and powerplay. Knockout needs a power-of-two team count.
A public page for the people who are not organising
Schedule, squads and a points table from recorded results, plus a broadcast link and a team-owner hub on auction night. No account needed to look.
The boundary that matters
What CricketOrganizer will not do for you
Listed on the page that is asking for your tournament, because finding these later is how software loses a season.
No wagon wheels or ball tracking
Matches are scored ball by ball, but the output is the record, not shot-analysis charts.
No retention or RTM mechanic
Squads are built by bidding. No right-to-match card.
NRR is a separate calculator
The table sorts on points, then wins, then team name.
Payment approval is manual
You review the uploaded screenshot. Nothing confirms it for you.
Cricket only
No football, kabaddi or volleyball mode.
No native app yet
Browser only. iOS and Android planned for November 2026.
Before you commit
Four questions to put to every platform, including this one
These are the answers that decide whether a season runs smoothly. A feature list is not one of them.
- 01
Who holds the entry fees?
Ask whether players pay you directly or pay the platform, what percentage is taken, and how long a refund takes. This is the single largest hidden cost in tournament software.
- 02
What happens on auction night?
Ask to see a live bid placed from a second device. A product that shows you a static screenshot of an auction screen has told you nothing about whether two owners can bid at once.
- 03
What does the free tier actually include?
Ask for the team cap, the player cap and whether the auction is inside or outside it. Ours is 3 teams and 75 players with the auction included, no card and no trial clock.
- 04
What is not built yet?
Ask directly, and be suspicious of an answer that has no limits in it. Ours are listed above, on the page we are asking you to buy from.
You can answer all four here in about twenty minutes. Create a tournament and run one player from the registration form to a squad before you move anything real.
Our own numbers
What we can show you rather than claim
We publish no competitor operating data and no ratings we did not earn. These are CricketOrganizer's own figures, each one printed with what it counted.
- 105+
- Tournaments organized
- 80+
- Auctions run
- 3,000+
- Live bids placed
- 95%
- Sell-through
since launch
live bidding, not manual picks
across those auctions
of listed players found a team
Lifetime totals since launch, rounded down. They include tournaments since removed, so they will not match a count of what is live on the platform today.
Comparing named products instead? Read the CricAuction comparison for auction-led events, the CricHeroes comparison for scoring-led ones, or the category comparison for the shortlist.
The people behind the tournaments.
We put the auction up on a projector and the hall went quiet every time a bid came in. First time it felt like an event instead of a meeting.
Players registered themselves with photo, role and bowling style. We used to spend a week collecting that over WhatsApp and half of it still came in wrong.
I hammered a player to the wrong team and undid it in a second, in front of the whole room. The bidding just carried on.
The squad and auction PDFs at the end are what the committee actually wanted. Every player, base price and final bid on record, and nobody typed it up.
Entry fees came in over UPI straight to my own account, with the payment screenshot sitting on each registration. No cash box and no register.
Our second season took one evening to set up. The format, the purse and the bid steps were already the way we wanted them.
Good to know
Choosing between a multi-sport platform and a cricket one
Choosing
Why is there no Sportzman feature comparison table on this page?
Because we could not verify Sportzman’s current public material when this page was written, and we do not publish a tick-and-cross table about a product we have not read the documentation for. A matrix built from guesswork is worse than no matrix: it is wrong the week it ships and it tells you nothing you can act on. Check the other vendor directly, then use the questions on this page on both of us.
When is a cricket-only platform actually the better choice?
When the auction, the entry fees and the fixtures are the work. A generic multi-sport tool has to model every sport, so cricket specifics like a purse with a squad-completion reserve, base prices per set, or an overs-per-innings rule set tend to arrive late or not at all. If you run several sports from one system, that generality is worth more than our depth.
Pricing
What does CricketOrganizer cost?
A tournament of up to 3 teams and 75 players is free, auction included, with no card and no trial clock. Beyond that you pay one flat price for each extra team, up to 32 teams, charged once for the tournament rather than every month. Every feature is on every plan, so paying more buys a bigger event and never a bigger feature list. Entry fees your players pay go to your own UPI ID and we take no share of them.
Switching
Can I move an existing player list across?
Yes, through the spreadsheet importer, using the xlsx template. Players come in with name, contact, role and base price, so a list you already keep elsewhere does not have to be retyped. Registrations you collect here export back out as CSV.
Keep exploring
- Cricket Auction SoftwareLive bidding, one screen
- IPL Auction SoftwareAuction night, run properly
- Cricket Fixture GeneratorRound robin to knockout
- Player Registration SoftwareForms, fees, approvals
- Tournament Management SoftwareThe whole tournament, one place
- Cricket Scoring AppBall by ball, from any phone
Run one tournament here before you move a season
Up to 3 teams and 75 players run free, auction included, with no card and no trial clock.
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