Every tournament wants an auction night now. Skipper gives you the whole thing: live bidding from every captain's phone, purses that cannot be overspent, and the room up on a projector.
No other cricket app does this. Set yours up free, and talk to us before you go live.
Someone keeps the purses in a spreadsheet. Someone else writes the bids on a whiteboard. Two captains argue about who called first. Halfway through the night a team realises it has spent too much and cannot fill its eleven, and the whole thing has to be unwound.
The auction is the best evening of the season. It should not depend on one person's arithmetic under pressure.
Skipper runs it for you.
From opening registration to sending the rosters around the next morning, it all happens in one place.
Give each team a purse in rupees or points. Open registration so players sign themselves up. Sort the pool into sets like Marquee, Batters and Bowlers.
Captains bid from their own phones, or the auctioneer calls the room. The clock extends when a bid lands late. Award, mark unsold, undo, or send a player back to the queue.
A projector view for the hall, a transparent version for OBS, and a live stream to YouTube for everyone who could not make it.
Rosters, total spend, the top buy, and a CSV to send around. Charge an entry fee and the money reaches your bank account.
The auctioneer's screen is built for the way an auction night actually behaves. Fast, loud, and full of people changing their minds.
The most common way an auction night goes wrong is a team spending big early and then being unable to field a legal side. Skipper simply will not let it happen.
Open one link on a laptop and the hall gets a proper broadcast. It is the difference between a meeting and an event.
Every owner gets a private dashboard, away from the bidding. No more doing sums on the back of the team sheet while the next name is being read out.
If you charge players to enter, you no longer have to match a list of names against a bank statement.
Real auctions, run on Skipper and broadcast straight from the app.
Most organisers set the whole thing up in an evening, a week before.
Skipper is newer than the apps you have heard of, and it is moving faster than all of them. New grounds, new leagues and new academies join every week, and the app ships something new most weeks to keep up.
District cricket associations run their official tournaments and leagues on Skipper, from player registration and fixtures through to live scoring and the points table.
The Headlight Cricket series at Turf 39 in Tiruppur has crossed its 310th edition. Late-night box cricket, every week, scored on Skipper.
Matches and auction nights go out live on YouTube from the app, overlay and all. You can watch them yourself rather than take our word for it.
Built offline-first because grounds have bad networks. A full innings scores with no connection at all and syncs itself when the phone finds one.
Every number on our home page is counted ball by ball from matches actually played. No install counts, no vanity metrics, nothing rounded up.
The auction is the one paid part.
Scoring is free. Player stats and analysis are free. Streaming to YouTube is free. Running your whole tournament, fixtures, points table, qualification scenarios and awards, is free. None of that changes, and none of it is going behind a paywall.
The auction is the one thing we charge for, and charging for it is what pays for everything above. We would rather bill the organiser who runs one auction night a season than put ads in your scorecard or sell your match data.
Set the whole thing up for free. Build your pool, sort your sets, retain your captains. When you are ready to go live, request access from the app and we will sort out the pricing with you.
Separately, if you collect entry fees from players, a small platform fee covers what the payment gateway charges. That one is shown to everybody before any money moves.
Tap-on-field scoring. Live broadcasts. Insights pros pay for. Skipper is the cricket app cricketers actually want to use.