SPIN XI — build your ultimate cricket XI

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How the game works

You are dealt a real cricket squad from a real season — Mumbai 2019, Sydney 2016/17, Australia 2003 — and you draft one player from it. Then another squad, and another, until you have eleven: four batters, a keeper, two all-rounders and four bowlers. Then your XI plays a tournament, match by match, and you find out whether the side you built holds up.

Four tournaments

A twenty-over league of fourteen games and a playoff; a fifty-over World Cup of nine group games, a semi-final and a final; a seven-game Twenty20 World Cup; and a Test Championship of twelve matches over two years, where draws count.

Where the numbers come from

42,165 player-seasons across 2,486 squads and 168 teams, from 2002 to 2026. Every rating is computed from publicly published ball-by-ball records of matches that were actually played — no rating is copied from anywhere and none is invented. A batter's rating comes from what they scored, how quickly, and against which attacks; the strength of each competition is worked out from the players who appear in more than one of them.

Watching a match

Every match can be watched ball by ball: the score climbs, the strike rotates, wickets fall and a chase counts down what is needed off how many. The scorecard and the replay are the same innings, because one is read off the other.

Who made it

SPIN XI is an independent fan-made cricket draft and tournament simulator. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or associated with any cricket board, league, franchise, player association or ratings provider. Player names, team names, ratings and season data are used for descriptive and editorial purposes only. No official logos, crests or player images are used.