My Cricket Career Simulator.

One international career, played in the browser from a real domestic competition to the last Test. You earn a first cap for the national side linked to that stop, then navigate form, selection, defining series and the final retirement call.

One game, short name — cricket career sim is what people type, the cricket career simulator is what loads: a full playing life across formats, every season weighed against the standards of its own era, finished with a grade the record book can defend.

It varies more than any sport here — we computed it across our whole archive and refused to publish one number, because the average moves by half a season depending on where you say a career has ended. Formats keep changing what a career even is: a player can hold a long Test record and a short one in the shorter formats. The pool keeps careers with a real record behind them, so it runs far longer than any honest average would. See how every sport compares, and why cricket's number is deliberately missing.

Four positions with different work. Batters post runs, average and hundreds; bowlers post wickets, five-wicket hauls and maidens; all-rounders carry runs, wickets and hundreds together; wicketkeeper-batters add dismissals to runs and average. Their Test benches include 1,788 calendar-year runs, nine hundreds and 96 wickets, while the keeper and all-round lines retain their position context.

The domestic years set your reputation and the next chapter awards a first cap. Cricket has no draft, so the receipt names the national side rather than inventing a round, pick, club auction or free-agent market.

The domestic route covers ages 19–20 and First cap is 21. Test windows run 22–24, 25–27, 28–30, 31–33 and 34–38; Farewell is 39, and the Selection panel is the decision after playing.

It asks whether you chase the calendar-year record book, lead the next wave, or build toward the biggest series. The national side never changes, and success is recorded as Test wins, series-winning years and rare series sweeps rather than a fake league finish.

They come from the public Test record book — the calendar-year marks for runs, hundreds and wickets — and the row at the top of the board counts only the seasons where your career genuinely beat one. It stays on zero in most careers.

The finish grades the whole career on an SSS–F ladder, and legend status follows what the numbers and the honors actually support. World XI selections and Player of the Year land only when a season earns them.

Yes — the cricket career game and the career simulator are one and the same, and it plays online in the browser. You make every call and the record book settles what it was worth.

Send the card and they start from their own domestic route, first cap and decisions, with your result as the mark to beat.

No. It is free in the browser, no account, nothing to install, and the link in the address bar holds your career so a reload never loses it.

Careers here are measured across formats as much as years — a player can be a Test great and barely feature in the short game. The record runs from 1877, and what a long career looks like changed completely somewhere in the middle of it.

Wisden recognition and the honours each format keeps, gathered over years rather than one summer. A career that scored in Tests and in the short game is a different achievement from one that mastered either.

125 figures are recognised across every major nation and the whole history of the game. Against the number who have played international cricket, it is a very narrow group.

Many, and the formats complicate it further. A player can build a Test record across fifteen years while barely appearing in the short game, and the record keeps those accounts separately — great in one format and ordinary in another is a normal career shape here, not a failed one.

Selection, more often than legs. International cricket has no contract to run down — a player is picked or is not — so a career can stop abruptly at a level where a domestic one would continue for years.

Form across conditions. An average built at home can collapse on tour, and every innings stays in the record — so the careers that hold up over fifteen years are almost always the ones that travelled well.

Older tours were written down in far less detail than modern ones, and the early first-class game in less still. Where the book is thin the card shows what the book holds and nothing more — an empty column stays empty rather than becoming an estimate.

Easily. Form, format and selection all move independently, and a career that starts well in one format may never get a proper run in another. The simulation follows the record's own shape rather than promising a rising line.