Pick your all-time XI. Then outbid your friends for it.

How the cricket auction works

1. 📲Create a game and send the link. Drop the link in the group chat before the first ball. Everyone joins on their own phone, on the sofa or across the country.
2. 🔨Bid on one cricketer at a time. Batters, wicketkeepers, all-rounders, pace bowlers and spinners go under the hammer one by one, legends from 1948 next to today's stars. Two of you chasing the same opener is where the budget goes.
3. 🏟️Set your batting order and your attack. The final is a T20: one side bats, the other chases. Level after 20 overs? A Super Over decides it, and the stronger XI wins.

Plus six more cricket games

• ⚡Quiz Battle. The TV asks about cricketers, everyone answers on their own phone, and the fastest right answer scores the most. Ten questions, three minutes.
• 🕵️Guess the player. Six clues about a mystery cricketer, one at a time. Name them first — a wrong guess hands everyone else the point.
• ❤️This or That. Two cricketers, same position, same era. One of you picks in secret, the rest guess which.
• 🎭Imposter. Everyone gets the same cricketer except one bluffer. One word each, then vote.
• 📊Blind Ranking. Five cricketers, one at a time. Rank each before you see the next, and no moving.
• 🙆Charades. Act out a secret cricketer without talking. Whoever shouts the name first scores.

Why cricket fans keep playing the auction

• ⚡Real bidding wars. All-rounders count with the bat and the ball, so they go for more than you think. Leave it late and you are opening with a spinner.
• 🏆163 cricketers to fight over. 20 wicketkeepers, 50 batters, 32 all-rounders, 36 pace bowlers and 25 spin bowlers. Drawn at random, so no two auctions are the same.
• 📣Every manager gets a verdict. Paid 40M for a reserve? The whole group will know.
• 📺Put it on the big screen. Open deadlineday.app/tv and the auction, every XI and the result play out on the TV while you bid on your phones.
• 🤖Only two of you? Add computer managers, each with their own bidding style.
• 🚫No ads. Ever. Nothing gets between you and the hammer.

What does the cricket auction cost?

The cricket auction rules in one minute

• Budget: every manager starts with 100M of play money. You always keep enough to fill the rest of your squad, so you can never go broke.
• Squad: 14 players: your XI and three on the bench, with at least one wicketkeeper. Want it quicker? Quick draft is a five-player Super Over side.
• Bidding: the clock starts at 10 seconds and every bid restarts it. Tap Pass when you are out, and when everyone has passed the hammer falls straight away.
• Hidden ratings: you never see a cricketer's rating during the auction. You bid on what you know.
• The last manager standing: when everyone else has a full squad, the last manager gets random cricketers to fill theirs. Bid while you can.
• Lineup: Set your batting order and your attack: Balanced, Batting depth, Pace attack or Spin web. A wicketkeeper only keeps, a batter bowling or a bowler batting high costs rating, and all-rounders fit almost anywhere.
• The result: a season of T20s and a final between the top two. Ties go to a Super Over, where the stronger XI has the edge.

Cricket auction questions