A free cricket game, built in New Zealand for anyone who wants more cricket than they can play. When a real international innings ends, chase the same target in Pavilion, live.
A world first
The moment a real T20I or ODI innings ends, that exact target goes live in Pavilion. Chase it during the innings break, while the real chase is about to start, or any time in the next 48 hours. Fewest balls wins.
India set 224 against West Indies, and minutes later we were chasing it from home. As far as we know, no other game lets you chase the real target live.
Pavilion on Roblox
Pavilion is a short form of cricket first played at a village club in North Yorkshire. Each side bats until it is out, unless a batter clears the rope, which brings the whole team back in.
The game keeps that rule and adds an honours board that never forgets. Make a hundred and your name stays on the wall, with the year beside it.
Pavilion comes from junior training at Beckwithshaw Cricket Club in North Yorkshire, where it still closes the session. Any club, school or coach can use it, and we would like to know where it is being played.
A two-page rules sheet with a pitch diagram, made to be printed and passed on. Run it to close a session, or as a game in its own right.
How to playWhat the game does and does not do, the age it is built for, what can be bought, and where the Roblox controls sit.
Safety at PavilionMake a room, share the four-letter code, and play a friend anywhere in the world on the same ground.
Play with a friend
India set 224 against West Indies. Minutes later, the same target was live in Pavilion and we chased it from home.
Read the story
Writing on junior cricket, participation, and the work behind Pavilion. Published when it is ready.
Read the Journal
A comic about a young traveller who spins a globe and plays wherever it stops. Episode one is set in Kolkata.
Read episode onePavilion is built by a small team with no publisher and no outside investment. Everything is made in house, released when it is ready, and answered by the people who made it. Profits go back into the game and, in time, into cricket for children who do not get the chance to play.