Pavilion

The story

One person built a cricket club for children who cannot get to one

It began at Beckwithshaw Cricket Club in North Yorkshire, where Harry Wenham was playing a season as the club's overseas player. An early build went into junior training — Ben Holderness, an ECB Level 3 coach, and Oliver Wynn, who runs the junior section, put it in front of the children, and the session went off. Phones passed round, scores called across the nets, nobody wanting to stop. That reaction is the reason the game was finished and published rather than left as a side project.

Pavilion is a cricket game made by Harry Wenham, working alone in New Zealand, and launched on Roblox in August 2026. It reduces cricket to its single best moment — watch the ball, time the shot, clear the fence — and then does something no other cricket game does: it remembers.

Make a hundred and your name goes onto a permanent honours board, numbered, with the year beside it. It is never reordered by anybody else's innings and it is never reset. Most games rank you; Pavilion keeps a register. The distinction is the whole design: a ladder is fixed-sum and every place a child climbs is a place another falls, where a register always takes one more name.

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