Inter-house matches, school tournaments and college fixtures all need the same thing — an accurate scorebook and parents who can follow along without standing on the boundary. Forth Umpire is a free cricket scoring app that gives a school a complete scorecard for every match, plus a live link parents and staff can open from their phone.
The interface is touch-friendly and forgiving — a senior student or PE teacher can score a full innings with no training, and undo a wrong ball in one tap.
Share the match-day link in the parents WhatsApp group. They follow the ball-by-ball score, current over and scorecard from work, home or anywhere with a phone.
Forth Umpire builds the full batting and bowling scorecard automatically — strike rates, economy, fours and sixes — ready to drop into the school newsletter or noticeboard.
For inter-school or inter-house tournaments, group matches under a tournament and Forth Umpire builds live leaderboards across all the games.
No app to install, no IT request. It runs in a browser on a phone, school iPad, Chromebook or staff-room laptop.
There is no per-school or per-match cost. Score every fixture in every age group without thinking about budget.
For a multi-match school tournament, create a tournament in Forth Umpire and add each participating team and squad. Every match scored under it automatically contributes to live leaderboards — top run-scorers, leading wicket-takers, best strike rate and best economy. By the end of the tournament the player-of-the-tournament data is already there, no spreadsheets required.
Sign up in under a minute, score ball by ball and share the live link with parents and staff.