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How to plan and publish cricket fixtures

Plan a cricket round robin, review pairings and time slots, and publish six scheduled matches.

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In this tutorial

1Open the cricket fixture plannerFind your cricket tournament and open Match Center from Matches & scoring.
Organizer dashboard
Search by tournament name and open the tournament you want to schedule.
Matches & scoring
This tournament-action group contains Match center and the tournament-wide scorer and broadcaster controls.
Match center
Create schedule adds a new stage or replaces the upcoming stage when replacement is available. Check the saved match count in the Match Center summary.
Setup gate
At least two saved tournament teams are required. Four teams produce six matches in a single round robin.
After this step
The correct cricket tournament opens in Create schedule.
2Choose the competition formatChoose how Match Center should create the cricket pairings.
Fixture stage
This controls whether Match Center calculates all pairings or asks the organizer to choose each match.
Single round robin — Every team meets every other team once. Pairings and match count are calculated automatically. This tutorial uses this option.
Double round robin — Every team pairing is scheduled twice, so it creates twice as many league matches as a single round robin.
Knock Out — The organizer chooses the number of matches and both teams in every match. It does not build an automatic advancing bracket.
Semi Finals — Starts with two organizer-defined matches. Choose both teams for each semi-final.
Final — Starts with one organizer-defined match. Choose the two finalists directly.
Custom stage — Enter a stage name, number of matches, and both participants for every match.
Pairings
Round-robin pairings come from the tournament teams. Organizer-defined stages allow repeat pairings for rematches, but one team cannot play itself.
Team requirement
Save at least two tournament teams before planning fixtures. Review the pairings for your teams before publishing.
After this step
Single round robin is selected for the fixture plan.
3Set the default cricket rulesChoose the T10 preset and understand every limited-overs option.
Cricket format
A preset fills overs, timing, interval, tie-breaker, and reserve-day defaults. Editing any of those fields changes the format to Custom.
T5 — 5 overs, 30 minutes per innings, 10-minute break, and super over.
T10 — 10 overs, 50 minutes per innings, 10-minute break, and super over. This tutorial uses T10.
T20 — 20 overs, 90 minutes per innings, 20-minute break, and super over.
One Day (50) — 50 overs, 210 minutes per innings, 30-minute break, and super over.
Custom limited overs — Set 1 to 100 overs, 10 to 600 minutes per innings, a 0 to 90-minute break, tie-breaker, and reserve-day choice.
Tied match
Super over records a winner-deciding tie-breaker. No tie-breaker leaves the match tied under the configured competition rules.
Super over — Use a super over to decide a tied limited-overs match.
No tie-breaker — Do not add a winner-deciding tie-breaker for a level score.
Reserve day
Enable only when the competition has an approved reserve-day rule. Limited-overs fixtures use one innings per side. Test matches use separate settings with two innings per side, which this T10 example does not cover.
After this step
The T10 preset is selected as the default for every generated match.
4Set dates, slots, and venueChoose the venue, time zone and matches per day. The example uses two daily matches in Asia/Kolkata.
First playing date & time
Required, future-dated, and inside the tournament dates. It becomes the first time slot and uses 30-minute picker steps.
IANA timezone
Interprets the entered local time and formats every fixture consistently. Use a valid value such as Asia/Kolkata. Changing it can change the saved UTC instant.
Playing days
Choose which calendar dates Match Center may use after the first match.
Every day — Uses consecutive calendar dates as needed. This tutorial uses this option.
Weekends — Uses Saturday and Sunday only. The first playing date must also be a weekend.
Weekdays — Choose one or more weekdays. Dates on other weekdays are skipped, and the first date must match a chosen day.
Exact dates — Add every allowed date explicitly. The first added date must match the first playing date.
Matches per playing day and gap
Matches per day sets how many start slots are used before moving to the next allowed date. Gap minutes are added after the full match duration.
Venue
Optional and applied to every generated fixture. Leave it empty when the ground is still to be announced.
After this step
A valid every-day schedule is ready inside the synthetic tournament dates.
5Preview and reorder pairingsGenerate the required preview and swap two pairings between time slots.
Preview fixture
Required before apply. It validates team count, format, rules, tournament date range, playing-day rules, timezone, the matches-per-day setting, and the full fixture window.
Preview summary
Check match count, playing days, rounds, team count, local schedule, participant pairings, rule label, and calculated slot duration.
Reorder pairings
Drag one preview match onto another, or select two matches for mobile and keyboard use. This moves the pairings between existing time slots. Reset swaps restores the generated order.
Customize
A match can override the default rules from its Customize button. Overrides follow the pairing when pairings are reordered.
After this step
The preview is generated and the first two pairings have exchanged time slots.
6Apply and publish the planApply the reviewed plan to publish the current cricket fixture.
Apply fixture
Persists the previewed rules, pairing order, dates, time slots, and venue, then publishes the generated scheduled matches.
Adding or replacing stages
Add a new stage keeps existing matches and adds the new schedule. Replace the upcoming stage changes only the latest stage, and is available only while all its matches are still scheduled.
Replacement safety
Replacing the upcoming stage requires confirmation. Earlier stages and their results stay saved. Live or completed matches cannot be replaced.
After this step
The six-match cricket fixture is persisted and the Match Center summary shows six current matches.

Expected result

The cricket fixtures are published with the reviewed rules and schedule. The four-team T10 example produces six round-robin matches.

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