CRICKET CLUB TECHNOLOGY PARTNER

Digitalising Cricket Clubs.
On and Off the Pitch.

We take grassroots cricket clubs from paper fixture lists and shared Hotmail accounts to a secure, connected, fully digital operation—powered by Microsoft 365 and built around how clubs actually run.

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Proud Technology Partner & Sponsor

Ampfield & North Baddesley Cricket Club

A Hampshire club with two grounds, junior and senior sections, a busy pavilion and a genuinely remote outfield. We rebuilt their entire digital operation from the ground up—and we’d like to do the same for your club.

Sound Familiar?

Most Clubs Are Running on Goodwill and WhatsApp

Volunteer-run clubs do extraordinary things with almost no infrastructure. But the admin overhead is brutal, and it usually lands on two or three people.

Club email in a personal inbox

Fixtures, safeguarding correspondence and subs chasing all sitting in someone’s personal account—and walking out the door when they step down.

Nobody can find anything

Constitution on a laptop, accounts on a memory stick, last year’s registration forms in a WhatsApp thread that’s since been cleared.

Committee meetings that never quorate

Getting eight volunteers in a pavilion on a Tuesday in February is harder than winning the league.

A website that’s two seasons out of date

Scores updated by hand, if at all. Play-Cricket says one thing, the site says another, parents believe neither.

No usable connectivity at the ground

Rural sites with one bar of 4G. No streaming, no live scoring, no card payments behind the bar.

Data handling that wouldn’t survive a question

Junior details on personal phones, no access control, no retention policy—and real safeguarding and GDPR exposure.

The Full Stack

What a Digitalised Cricket Club Looks Like

Every one of these is live at ANBCC today. We can deploy the same stack at your club, or cherry-pick the parts you need.

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Proper Club Email

Exchange Online gives every role a real club address that stays with the club, not the person.

Role-based mailboxes — chair@, juniors@, treasurer@
Shared mailboxes so handovers take minutes
Full archive and retention
Anti-phishing and spoofing protection

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Committee on Teams

Stop cancelling meetings because half the committee can’t make the pavilion.

Meetings with recordings and auto notes
Channels per section — seniors, juniors, ground, bar
Constitution and policies version-controlled
Works on any phone

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Microsoft Forms

Every bit of data capture that currently happens on paper or in a group chat.

Junior registration and medical consent
Availability, match fees and subs
Ground and pitch inspection reports
Feeds into SharePoint and Power BI

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Play-Cricket Integration

A custom-built integration with the Play-Cricket API so your website updates itself.

Fixtures, results and tables pulled automatically
Live in-play scores during matches
Team sheets and player statistics
One source of truth, always in sync

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Frogbox Streaming

Your live stream shouldn’t live on someone else’s platform with someone else’s adverts.

Frogbox feed relayed through YouTube
Embedded on your own website
Scoreboard overlay alongside the stream
Simultaneous relay to Facebook Live

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Appspace Signage

Make the screens inside the pavilion earn their keep on match days.

Live scoreboard on clubhouse screens
Sponsor rotation — a sellable club asset
Bar menus, fixtures, events and notices
Scheduled content, no volunteer required

200Mbps at a Ground in the Middle of Nowhere

Rural cricket clubs are almost always the last address on the exchange. Most sit on ADSL, a 4G dongle, or nothing at all—which rules out streaming, live scoring, card payments and digital signage before you start.

We design and manage connectivity for remote sites, including Starlink-based solutions where fixed line simply isn’t viable. Delivered as a fully managed service: hardware, install, monitoring and support, on one monthly bill.

On top of that we build a proper network—segregated WiFi for members, guests, juniors and back-of-house systems, so your card terminal and your CCTV aren’t sharing a network with 200 spectators.

200Mbps Delivered to a remote Hampshire ground 4 Segregated networks — members, guests, payments, systems 24/7 Proactive monitoring and managed support

1 Login for every volunteer, across every system MFA Enforced on every account, no exceptions £0 Microsoft 365 licence cost for eligible clubs via non-profit grants

Secure and Compliant, Not Just Digital

Cricket clubs hold sensitive data on children. That brings safeguarding obligations and UK GDPR duties that most volunteer committees have never been resourced to meet properly.

We build the compliance in from day one—identity, access control, retention, and a clear audit trail of who can see what. Not a policy document in a drawer, but controls that actually enforce themselves.

And because many clubs qualify for Microsoft’s non-profit programme, a large part of the licensing can come at no cost. We handle the eligibility application as part of onboarding.

Built to Withstand Scrutiny

If your league, your county board or a parent asks how junior data is handled, you should have a straight answer.

Identity & Access

Entra ID with multi-factor authentication, conditional access and role-based permissions. Access is removed the day someone leaves the committee.

Data Protection

Sensitivity labelling, retention policies and data loss prevention on junior and medical information. Nothing lives on a personal phone.

Threat Protection

Microsoft Defender across email and endpoints, with domain-level anti-spoofing so nobody can impersonate your treasurer.

Continuity

Everything backed up, everything recoverable. A lost laptop or a departing volunteer is an inconvenience, not a crisis.

How We Work With Clubs

Start Anywhere. Grow From There.

No club needs all of this on day one. Most start with email and the website, then build out season by season.

Foundation

Get the Basics Right

The essentials every club should have before anything else.

Microsoft 365 tenant setup and non-profit licensing
Club domain and role-based email
Teams for committee and sections
MFA and baseline security configuration
Volunteer onboarding and training

Digital Club

Everything in Foundation, plus the club’s public face and match-day systems.

WordPress website with custom club theme
Play-Cricket API integration
Microsoft Forms for registration and subs
SlotKeeper booking for nets and facilities
Ongoing managed support

Full Stack

Connected Ground

Everything in Digital Club, plus the physical infrastructure at your site.

Managed connectivity, including Starlink
Segregated WiFi network design and install
Appspace digital signage in the pavilion
Frogbox stream relay to YouTube
Sponsor rotation and content management

“We went from a shared email address and a website nobody could update, to live scores on the clubhouse screens and a committee that actually meets.”

— Committee Member, Ampfield & North Baddesley Cricket Club

Let’s Talk About Your Club

A free, no-obligation review of how your club runs today and what could be better. We’ll be honest about what’s worth doing and what isn’t—and we know the difference, because we sit on a committee too.

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Or email us directly at sales@sparksystems.co.uk
We work with clubs across Hampshire and nationwide.

Digitalising Cricket Clubs.On and Off the Pitch.