What the scorecard doesn't tell you
A scorecard records what happened. The patterns across every ball you've faced tell you why.
PlayStats · 17 August 2026 · 2 min read
The scorecard is where your game starts. It's the record your club has always kept — the team's 9/184, your 34 batting at number 4, the catch at midwicket. Every figure in PlayStats answers to the official scorecard, and we re-check our data against it constantly.
But a scorecard is one afternoon's summary. Your season is forty of them; your career is hundreds. The questions that actually change how you perform — why do I keep getting out in the twenties? Am I better in white-ball or red-ball cricket? What happens when I bat 3 instead of 5? — aren't answered by a single card. They live in the pattern across all of them, and finding that pattern by hand means a winter of spreadsheets nobody has time for.
That's the job PlayStats does, day after day.
Search your name once
No data entry needed. Nothing to log, nothing to input after play. Search your name, and every innings you've played is there — every season, every club, every format, with ball-by-ball data wherever it exists. From there it updates on its own; new matches land as soon as results are entered.
If your career is split across two or three records — a club change, a rep season, a misspelt surname — PlayStats finds the fragments and suggests the merge, so your whole story reads as one player.
What analytics adds
- How you get out. Dismissal patterns across seasons — the modes, the match situations, the scoring phase.
- Where your runs come from. Dot-ball percentage, scoring-shot percentage, boundary rate, and how you score through each batting phase: settling, building, accelerating.
- Match-ups. Cricket can be a small world — you face the same bowlers season after season. Head-to-head records against each bowler, and powerful data to recall when you take guard.
For bowlers: spells over by over, wicket types, where in the over you strike. Wicket-keepers: where video highlights exist for a match, your dismissals are there as easy-to-watch clips.
A record worth sharing
Everything that matters is shareable. Your profile opens for anyone — selectors, coaches, parents, supporters — no account needed. Send a specific view and that's what they see: "my T20 season". The scorecard on your PlayHQ record is where the story starts; the rest is in PlayStats.