Tape-ball, tennis-ball or rubber-ball — Forth Umpire is a free cricket scoring app for the kind of cricket that gets played on a lane on a Sunday morning. Pick the two teams, set the overs, do the toss and score ball by ball from your phone. Everyone with the link watches the score live.
Quick Match lets you start a fresh game with two team names and an overs count — perfect when teams form five minutes before the first ball.
No paper, no spreadsheet and no app to install. Score from any phone browser standing at square leg.
Send the 12-character match ID on WhatsApp and friends, family and the WhatsApp group follow every ball live.
Tape-ball games still need wides, no-balls and dot tracking — Forth Umpire handles extras correctly so totals are always right.
Score as many gully matches as you want at no cost. There is no match-count limit and no spectator paywall.
Spectators do not need to refresh the page — scores update on their screen automatically a few seconds after each ball.
Two teams turn up, captains agree on overs, toss happens. You open Forth Umpire, hit Quick Match, type the team names and overs, mark the toss and the openers, and start tapping in each ball. The scorecard, run rate and current over update on every tap. The match-day link goes into the group chat — by the third over, half the chat is arguing about the strike rotation.
Open Forth Umpire on your phone, start a Quick Match and the live link is ready before the first over is over.