1.1
Phases
See where the innings actually goes — powerplay, middle, death — for your side and theirs.
Shadow Stats
Your club already records the answers.
Somebody at your club writes down every delivery of every match, and then the book goes in a bag. Shadow Stats reads those scorecards back and gives you the analysis a professional set-up would have.
Every ball your club has recorded, read back in a week — not a winter.
Latest entry on the board3.28in the powerplay. 5.00 at the death.
One price for the whole club, every squad · from R714 a month · see pricing
Tap out an over · read back as you go
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Keeping the record isn’t the same as reading it.
Every club in every league writes down the same four things. Almost none of them get the four that would actually change a team talk.
What the scorebook tells you
- Who batted, and how many they made
- Who bowled, and what it cost
- How the wickets fell
- The result
What decides the next match
- Which phase you keep losing games in
- The bowler your top order cannot score off
- Who is worth batting at three this week
- Which bowler is one spell from breaking down
The analysis already costs you a night a week.
Not doing this isn’t free. Somebody at your club is already doing a worse version of it by hand, on a Tuesday, after work.
How it goes now
20 min
Chase the scorecards
Two scorers, a WhatsApp group and a league site that updates on Tuesday.
1 hr
Type them into a spreadsheet
Again. Every week. And the totals still have to be checked against the card.
45 min
Work out who is in form
Sorting columns by hand, because a spreadsheet has no idea what a phase is.
30 min
Pick a side
Mostly from memory, mostly about the two players everybody already has an opinion on.
40 min
Scout your next opposition
Reading back their last few cards to work out who bats where and who bowls when.
Over three hours a week. Across an October-to-April season that is roughly 85 hours — two full working weeks, by hand, and the answer at the end of it is still a guess.
How it goes here
2 min
Send the scorecard
Forward the file your scorer already produces. Nobody learns anything new.
0 min
Open the dashboard
Phases, form, match-ups, workload and Best XI are already worked out.
Forwarding the scorer’s file is the only thing anyone at the club has to do differently.
And the part that isn’t hours
- A phase you keep losing in, all season, that nobody ever names out loud.
- A bowler your top order cannot score off, faced again with no plan.
- A bowler bowls two heavy spells into an injury, and no way to have seen it coming.
The times above are our estimate of the manual job, not a measured result from a customer. Your Tuesday may be worse.
Nine ways to look at the same season.
Each one answers a question a coach actually asks out loud in the week before a match.
1.2
KPIs
Set a target per player and watch it move match to match, instead of guessing at season end.
1.3
Form trends
Who is coming into form and who is quietly falling out of it, before selection night.
1.4
Match-ups
How a batter has fared against a specific bowler or bowlers, counted ball by ball.
1.5
Best XI
A side picked on the record, with the reason attached to every pick.
1.6
Scout
What the opposition does well and where they leak, before you play them.
2.1
Workload
Overs per bowler per match, so nobody gets quietly overbowled into an injury.
2.2
Partnerships
Which pairs build and which ones break, and at what score it happens.
2.3
Dismissals
How each batter actually gets out, and which phase keeps costing you wickets.
A season loses its games somewhere.
Fifty overs of bowling, every match of a season, one bar each. No scorebook ever adds this up, because a scorebook is written one over at a time.
Bowling economy for each of the fifty overs across the demo season. The first forty overs average 3.34 to 3.39 an over. Overs 41 to 50 average 5.20.
Forty overs of respectable bowling, then the last ten go at five an over. Nobody at the club is hiding this — it is in every scorecard they filled in, one over at a time, and no scorebook adds it up.
Open this seasonThe same shape turns up in clubs on the platform — alongside two things a spreadsheet has no way of asking.
3.28
in the powerplay. 5.00 at the death.
Tight up front, tight through the middle, then overs 40 to 50 cost them five an over. The difference between defending 230 and losing with four to spare.
11
balls. 4 runs. 2 wickets.
One opposition bowler against one top order, counted across a season. They had faced him before and never once come with a plan for him.
5 of 5
frontline bowlers carrying a raised load.
Not five injuries waiting to happen — two matches in seven days. The fixture list was the problem, and it was visible before the second game.
The chart is the demo season, generated for the purpose — it is the same season you open at the live demo. The three findings under it are real, from clubs on the platform, with club and player names removed.
Every player gets one. It prints.
A full career report as a PDF — hand it to the player, take it into a selection meeting, or send it to a parent. It is the same numbers the dashboard shows, on paper.
- Career summary, batting and bowling side by side
- Average by batting position, against the career line
- Economy by phase, against the squad average
- Season on season: what improved and what slipped
- How they get out, and in which phase
Three steps, and only one is yours.
STEP 01
Send the scorecard
Upload the file your scorer already produces. No new app for anyone to learn on match day.
STEP 02
We read every ball
Each delivery is parsed and stored — runs, extras, dismissals, who bowled it and when.
STEP 03
Open the dashboard
Phases, KPIs, form, match-ups and Best XI are waiting, and every player has a report you can print.
One price for the club. Every squad included.
Not per team, not per coach, not per player. Two ways to pay for the season — the only real decision is whether you pay up front.
Month to month
R999/month
+ R1,000 once-off setup — R1,999 due on your first invoice
Cancel at the end of any month.
- Every squad — first side, second side, juniors
- As many coaching logins as you need
- All nine analysis views, season and career
- A printable career report for every player
Full seasonSave 29%
R4,999/season
+ R1,000 once-off setup — R5,999 due on your first invoice
October to April, 7 months — about R714 a month. League cricket ends in the last week of March, so 1 April closes the season.
- Every squad — first side, second side, juniors
- As many coaching logins as you need
- All nine analysis views, season and career
- A printable career report for every player
Setup and data load
R1,000 once-offYour team, your logins, and up to one past season of your own matches loaded and reconciled. Charged once, at the start, never again.
Off-season vault — May to September
R249/month · or R999 for the off-seasonEverything stays live and readable, reports included. Uploads pause until October, and there is no setup fee to come back.
Prices in rands, VAT included. Running a league or a union rather than a club? Talk to us — that is one agreement, not twenty.
The five questions every club asks.
What is the setup fee for, and how long does it take?
The R1,000 covers the work of getting your club's actual history into the system, which is a job we do rather than a form you fill in:
- Reading your league's scorecard format, if we have not read it before.
- Loading up to one past season of your matches, ball by ball.
- Reconciling every card against its innings total and telling you what does not add up.
- Creating your team and your coaching logins.
It usually takes a few days from the point we have your scorecards. It is charged once, at the start, and never again — a renewal costs nothing to set up.
You are not paying to look at sample data. The first dashboard you open is your own season.
Do we own our data, and what happens if we leave?
The scorecards are your club's and so is everything we derive from them. You can export your leaderboards and download a full report for every player at any time, without asking us.
If you stop, nothing is deleted on the way out. Ask for an export and you get your matches and your reports.
The off-season vault exists so that pausing does not mean starting again: your history stays loaded and readable, and October picks up where April left off.
What scorecard formats do you accept?
We work from the structured match files your scoring platform exports — the ones that contain every delivery, not just the summary totals.
If your league publishes scorecards somewhere we have not read before, send us one example. Adding a new source is normal work for us, not an obstacle.
A summary-only card (totals but no ball-by-ball) can still be loaded, but the views that count deliveries — phases, match-ups, partnerships, the Manhattan — will be empty for that match.
Who can see our data?
Only people your club invites. Every account belongs to exactly one team, and the analysis you see is scoped to that team — one club cannot see another club's matches, players or reports.
Opposition numbers you see in Scout and Match-ups come from matches your own club played, not from another club's account.
What if we only want it for one season?
That is a normal way to buy it. Pay for the season, use it from October to April, and decide in the winter.
If you do not carry on, take your exports with you. If you keep the vault at R249 a month, your history and every player report stay live, and there is no setup fee the second time.
Everything else is on the FAQ, and a person answers the rest.
Send us one season.
Tell us your club and how you keep scorecards now. We will come back with what we can read, what it will cost you, and how long the load will take.