Guess the player
- Country
- Role
- Bats
- Bowls
- Age
- Clubs
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How to play
Example guessEngland
- CountryEngland
- RoleAll-rounder
- BatsRight
- BowlsRight-arm fast-mediumBoth pace
- Age24 ↑
- ClubsSurrey
- Same country and batting hand.
- Close: he’s a specialist rather than an all-rounder, bowls pace but not right-arm fast-medium, and plays for Rajasthan Royals but not Surrey.
- Off: he’s older than 24, as the arrow shows.
How do you play Guess the player?
Type a men’s international cricketer’s name and pick him from the list. Each guess shows six clues about him: country, role, batting hand, bowling, age and clubs, each marked against the day’s player. Use them to narrow it down. You have 8 guesses.
What do the colours mean?
Green is a match. Amber is close: a role that shares a skill (an all-rounder beside a batter or a bowler, a wicketkeeper beside a batter), the same kind of bowling (both pace or both spin, whichever arm), or at least one club in common, with the clubs you share lit green and the rest struck out. An unlit tile is a miss. Age is green only for the same age; otherwise the arrow points to the day’s player: ↑ means he’s older than your guess, ↓ younger.
Who can the answer be?
A men’s international ranked in the top 40 of any of the ICC’s Test, ODI or T20 batting or bowling rankings. You can guess any of more than a thousand men who have played international cricket, and each one shows his clues.
When is there a new player?
Every day at midnight, your time. Everyone gets the same player on the same date.
How do streaks work?
Your streak counts the days in a row you’ve found the player. Miss a day, or run out of guesses, and it goes back to nought. Your record stays in this browser, so it won’t follow you to another phone or computer.
Where do the clues come from?
Our records of every men’s T20 international, ODI and Test. Role comes from how often a player bats and bowls for his side: a bowler bowls a fair share of the overs, a batter averages over 22 and an all-rounder does both. Bowling shows only for players who bowl, so a batter who has sent down a few overs in ten years shows as not bowling.