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Setting the Standard for Fair and Transparent Decision-Making in Cricket

EquiPlay is a web-based platform created by a team of academics, data scientists, and sports experts to redefine standards in fair and transparent talent development.

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What is EquiPlay?

Designed for clubs, coaches, and players, EquiPlay ensures that every player is evaluated using a standardised skills framework. This minimises bias while preserving the professional judgment of coaches, giving players a genuine opportunity to progress. Our data-driven approach removes subjectivity from talent identification, creating a level playing field for all athletes.

Why EquiPlay Matters

Cricket draws from very diverse communities at the grassroots level — but that diversity is not reflected in the same way at the professional level. Systemic barriers, subjectivity in assessments, and opaque decision making have held the sport back from being truly inclusive.

Although a skills-based game, standardised or consistent assessing of players in a way that is both rigorous and transparent is not commonplace. Without this, decisions around player selection, deselection, and development risk being subjective, inconsistent, and potentially unfair.

There is a clear need for a system that gives players real visibility over their progress, with precise, meaningful feedback to help them improve and fulfil their potential — regardless of background, gender, school, or social connections.

EquiPlay was created to meet this need.

At its heart, it’s a tool designed to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in coaching, assessment, and decision-making. It standardises player assessment, ensures fairness, and creates a clear, transparent record of performance and development.

But more than that, EquiPlay gives cricket leaders the evidence they need for data-informed decisions — helping to build a sport where talent is recognised and nurtured on merit, and where every player can see a fair and open pathway to success.

Who is it for?

Whether you’re a grassroots club or a professional organisation, EquiPlay offers powerful tools for player assessment, tracking, and development like never before. Empowering all talent to reach its full potential, regardless of background.

  • Drives improvement in coaching by sharpening decision-making processes to enable action in the right areas, with the right people, in the right way.
  • Improves player performance, increases competition and drives motivation using continuous and data-driven assessment and feedback against a standardised skills framework.
  • Provides intelligence for broader decision-making processes, including financial investment in skills development.

Improving Equity

Benefits

  • Fair & Transparent Talent Pathways: EquiPlay minmises subjectivity, ensuring player development is based on data and standardised expert opinion.
  • Enhanced Coach Decision-Making: Empowers coaches with objective insights to optimise training and selection processes.
  • Increased Equity & Inclusion: Ensures fair and unbiased assessments, creating opportunities for all players, regardless of background.
  • Customisable for Clubs: Adaptable to different coaching philosophies and talent development frameworks while maintaining transparency.
  • Performance Tracking Over Time: Enables long-term tracking of player progress with visual dashboards and unbiased reports.
  • Strategic Talent Planning: Enables clubs to evaluate their player pipeline, coaching impact, and development priorities to drive better decision-making.

Raising Standards

Features

A Fair Chance for Everyone

How does it work?

1. Clubs & Organisations Onboard: EquiPlay can integrate a Club’s branding so the App takes on the Club’s identity providing a sense of ownership and continuity for players, coaches and management.

2. Coaches Assess Players: Using structured skill frameworks and objective criteria, coaches evaluate players across key cricketing competencies.

3. Data-Driven Insights: Player performance data is collected and analysed to provide a clear, unbiased picture of progress and potential across the Club.

4. Players View Progress: Players (or their guardians) access easy to interpret reports and visual data on development, strengths, and areas for improvement.

5. Continuous Improvement: Ongoing assessments provide an equitable pathway for player growth and advancement, ensuring opportunities are awarded based on merit.

Driving Motivation

Take equity, diversity and inclusion seriously by embedding it deep into your decision-making processes.
EquiPlay helps you to do that.