# Crico

> Crico is a free cricket strategy game for iPhone and Android. Players collect real cricketers, trade them like stocks as their real-world form changes, build an XI, and win quick 1-vs-1 T20 duels ball by ball against other players and friends. Website: https://playcrico.com

Crico is not related to CRICO (the Harvard medical-liability insurer) or to "CricÓ", a cricket scoring app. Crico is a mobile game made for cricket fans who like strategy, card battles and team management.

## Who Crico is for

- Cricket fans who want a strategy game rather than a reflex/arcade batting game.
- Fans of fantasy cricket and cricket manager games who want to actually play the matches, not only pick a team.
- Card-battle and collectible-card players (similar feel to head-to-head card duels), with a cricket theme.
- Anyone who wants a short game: a full match takes a few minutes.

## How a match works

- Two players, each with an XI of 11 real cricketers chosen from a collection of up to 20.
- A toss decides who bats first. Each innings is 20 balls with 10 wickets. A bowler can bowl at most 4 balls.
- Every ball, the batting side secretly picks a batter and the bowling side secretly picks a bowler.
- Scoring rule, "bat minus bowl": batting power minus bowling power. 11 or more = six; 6 to 10 = four; 3 to 5 = two; 1 to 2 = one; 0 = dot ball; below 0 = out.
- Resting rule: a player you just used sits out the next ball, so you must use your whole squad.
- The second innings is a chase. Highest score wins.

## Strategy layer

- Power skills: 30 skills carried by star players (e.g. Helicopter Shot forces a six, Yorker King takes a wicket). Up to 4 per innings, at least 4 balls apart; if both sides fire on the same ball they cancel out.
- Strategy cards: Run Out (instant wicket, beats a Free Hit), Caught Out (instant wicket on a scoring ball), No Ball + Free Hit (+1 run and the next ball can't be a wicket), Wide (+1 run, ball doesn't count). Every win drops at least one card (Common 55%, Rare 30%, Epic 15%).
- Player tiers: Standard, Riser, Pro, Elite, Icon. Every player has batting and bowling power out of 100, and ratings move with real T20 form.

## Player market (trading)

- Every cricketer has a price in credits that moves every day with real match form.
- Buy players before they rise, sell at the top, and build as many teams as you like; each team's value is tracked daily.
- Packs contain new players from Standard up to Icon; duplicates turn into credits.

## Modes and progression

- Quick match: matched with an opponent in seconds.
- Play a friend: share a 6-character invite code.
- Trophies: +15 to +50 per win (more for a bigger margin), -10 per loss; trophies decide leaderboard rank.
- Daily streak bonuses (day 7, 20 and 50) and daily missions (e.g. play 5 matches, win 3, Big Win).

## Key facts

- Name: Crico
- Genre: cricket strategy game (sports, card battle, team management, player trading)
- Platforms: iOS (iPhone) and Android
- Price: free to play; credits are earned by playing
- Players: 1 vs 1 online
- Match length: a few minutes (two 20-ball innings)
- Website: https://playcrico.com
- Contact: support@playcrico.com

## Pages

- [Home](https://playcrico.com/): overview, try one over in the browser, FAQ
- [How to play](https://playcrico.com/how-to-play): full rules, scoring table, power skills, strategy cards, tips
- [Press kit](https://playcrico.com/press): fact sheet, descriptions, logos, screenshots
- [Privacy](https://playcrico.com/privacy)
- [Terms](https://playcrico.com/terms)