A cricket game · Season One · 2026

Face the bowler.
Time the shot.
Clear the fence.

A cricket ground of your own — with boards that remember what you did, and honours that keep your name for good.

Free on Roblox. Phone, tablet or desktop.

How it plays

One ball at a time, and nothing to learn

Thirty balls. Five batters. A fence to clear. There is no manual and no menu to work out — you watch the ball come down and you decide when to swing. Everything else in Pavilion is built on that one moment.

A batter at the crease facing the bowler. The scoreboard reads Pavilion 11 for 2, four point one overs, needing 13 off 25.
At the crease. The scoreboard tells you everything — the score, the over, and exactly what you need.
The bowler running in, the ball on its way down the pitch.
Seven bowlers. Slow, medium, express pace, swing both ways, off spin and leg spin — each with its own timing.
A six sailing over the boundary towards the pavilion.
Clear the fence. Time it properly and it goes over the rope, the trees and the pavilion roof.
The moment a fallen batter returns to the crease after a six.
The RELOAD. Lose a wicket and you can get them back — one six brings a fallen batter in. Nobody is ever quite out of a game.
The season screen showing Book One, Village Green, and its list of fixtures.
A season of fixtures. Books of matches, each teaching a different thing — survive an innings, chase a total, clear cow corner.
The result card at the end of a won match, showing each batter's score.
A proper scorecard. Every innings ends with a real card — who batted, what they made, how they went.

The record

Most games forget. This one doesn't.

In most games a score lasts until somebody beats it, and the list wipes when the season ends.

Pavilion keeps an honours board instead. Make a hundred and your name goes on the wall with the year beside it — numbered, permanent, and never pushed off by anybody else's innings. The wall always takes one more name.

It is the oldest idea in cricket, and it is the reason a player comes back: not to defend a position, but because the thing they did is still there.

Everyone also gets a debut number on their first innings — free, sequential, and nobody can take it off you. You are the Nth person ever to bat at Pavilion.

The Hundred Club
Awaiting the first hundred

For parents

What Pavilion does about safety

It is built for children, so the honest thing is to say exactly what it does and does not do — including the uncomfortable part.

No personal information is ever collected. Not an email, not an age, not a location. Pavilion knows a Roblox display name and a cricket score, and nothing else.

The honours boards carry a name and a number. No photographs, no locations, nothing that connects a name to a person.

Pavilion adds no chat of its own. There is no private channel, no voice, and no direct messaging built into the game — all chat is Roblox's, filtered and age-banded by Roblox.

There is a working deletion path. One command removes a player's whole record — profile, every board row, every honours entry. Built before launch, not after a complaint.

Nothing you can buy makes you better at cricket. The boards are not for sale.

Age bands and chat are enforced by Roblox itself, at platform level, not by a setting a developer can quietly loosen.

And the part nobody volunteers

Pavilion is built on Roblox, and Roblox has been the subject of serious child-safety litigation. Anyone looking into this will find that, and they should.

It is not a reason to pretend otherwise. It is the reason the list above exists and is published — and every claim on it is one you can check by playing the game. Full detail on the privacy page.

Questions

The things people ask first

Is it free?

Yes — every fixture, every board, multiplayer, all of it. There is one optional item, described below.

What age is it for?

It was built for nine to fifteen year olds. Right now Roblox restricts every newly published experience to age-checked 16+ players until it reaches 500 engaged users, so younger players cannot find it yet. That is a platform rule, not a setting.

Do I need to know cricket to play?

No. The early fixtures teach you one idea at a time, starting with nothing but watching the ball and timing the shot. Knowing cricket helps — but a lot of this was built so it wouldn't have to.

What is the paid thing?

A life membership of the Pavilion Cricket Club, about £4, bought once. It puts your name and a number on the members' board and gives you a cap at the crease. It changes no score, unlocks no fixture and gives no advantage. It is a name on a wall and nothing more.

Can my child talk to strangers in it?

Chat is Roblox's own, banded by verified age — under-13s have it off by default, and nine-to-fifteens get it gradually with safeguards. Pavilion adds nothing on top of it — no private channel, no voice, no direct messages of its own.

Can they play with a friend?

Yes. Make a room, tell your friend the four-letter word, and you both land on the same ground on opposite pitches — with the same bowling at each end, so it is a fair match.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes, and that is what most of it was designed and tested on. Tablet and desktop work too.

Who made it?

One person, in New Zealand. See below.

Where it goes

What's built, and what's next

No dates, because a one-person studio that publishes dates publishes fiction. What is finished sits beside what is planned, so you can judge the ratio yourself.

Built

  • The innings — thirty balls, five batters, the RELOAD
  • Two books of fixtures, eighteen matches
  • Honours boards — numbered, year-stamped, permanent
  • Multiplayer, and a room you can invite a friend into
  • A debut number for every player
  • Weekly and season leaderboards

Now

  • Watching how people actually play it
  • A gentler first book, so nobody is walled out in week one
  • Fixing whatever the first weeks turn up

Who made it

One person, in New Zealand

Pavilion is built and run by Harry Wenham. Every line of it — the fixtures, the boards, the club — one person, over months, because cricket deserved a version of itself a nine-year-old could love on a phone.

Worth saying plainly rather than hiding behind a plural. It means the game is opinionated, and it means bugs get answered by the person who wrote them.

Why Pavilion exists — the longer answer, about an hour of cricket a week and the other six days.

The Hundred Club is empty

Nobody has made a hundred at Pavilion yet. The first name on that board is there for good.