How to Hire a Live Streamer for Your Cricket Match or Tournament

How it works

Criconic has a directory of approved streamers: people who stream local cricket with Criconic's live score overlays. You send one of them a request from your match or tournament in the app. If they accept, they can score your matches and put them on their stream, with the score bar updating ball by ball. The stream goes out on their own YouTube, Facebook or other channel.

1. Find streamers in your city

In the app, open the menu and tap Find a Streamer (under Explore). On the website, it's Streamers in the menu. Search by Channel name, or type your town in City.

Each streamer shows their channel name, their @handle, their city and how many streams they've done with Criconic. Streamers who were live most recently come first. The YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and website icons open their channels, so you can watch a past stream before you ask. Tap a name to open their profile, which has a Streamer badge and the same channel links.

2. Ask a streamer to stream one match

You need to be the match's organizer or one of its scorers, and it has to be in the app.

1. Find the match card, for example in My Cricket → My Matches, and tap it. For a match you score, this opens Match Actions.
2. Tap Hire a Streamer ("Ask a streamer to stream this match"). It's there until the match ends.
3. The Hire a streamer list opens, with your match's name on top. Search by city as before, and tap Ask next to the streamer you want.
4. Add a note if you like: the date, the time, the ground ("A note (optional): date, time, ground…", up to 200 characters). Tap Send request.

You'll see "Request sent": the streamer gets it in their Streamer studio, and you're told when they answer. If they accept, they become a co-scorer of the match and can put it on their stream. Asking the same streamer again before they answer just says "You've already asked them. Wait for their answer."

3. Or hire one for the whole tournament

For a league or a weekend tournament, ask once for every match. Open the tournament in the app. On the Overview tab, the tournament's organizers see a Hire a Streamer card: "They score and stream all its matches; the settings stay with you". Tap it and send the request the same way.

If the streamer accepts, they can score and stream every match of the tournament. They can't change the tournament itself: teams, fixtures and rules stay with you. You'll find them under Manage Organizers → Hired streamers, with a Remove button if plans change.

New to running a tournament? Start with how to create a cricket tournament online.

4. What the streamer sees

The streamer gets a notification, "Request to stream", saying who is asking and for which match or tournament. In their Streamer studio, the request is under Requests to stream with your note, and two buttons: Accept and Decline.

Either way, you get a notification back: "… will stream it" when they accept, or "Streaming request declined" when they can't make it. Then ask someone else.

5. On match day

Every approved streamer has one overlay link of their own, ending in their @handle, set up once in OBS or PRISM. Once they've accepted, they put your match on that link from Go Live. From then on:

• The score bar follows the scoring. Every ball scored on Criconic shows on their stream: the score, the batters, the bowler, the fours, sixes and wickets.
• One phone scores at a time. The streamer is now a co-scorer, so decide who scores: your usual scorer, or the streamer. See how to add a scorer to a match.
• Your sponsors come first. Sponsor ads you set up (in the app's Go Live, under Sponsor Ads) keep their slots. The streamer's own sponsors only fill slots you left empty.
• Their look, unless you picked one. If you haven't chosen an overlay theme for the match, the streamer's default look is used.
• Credit and viewers. The match page shows Streamed by with their channel and links. For a public match, people who follow the streamer on Criconic get a notification that they're live.

Share the YouTube or Facebook link in your groups before the first ball, and the live scorecard link too (see how to share a live cricket score). Everything the overlay can show is on the live stream overlays page.

No streamer nearby?

You can stream the match yourself with a phone or camera, a laptop running OBS and Criconic's overlay link. The full setup, from the YouTube channel to the internet at the ground, is in how to live stream a cricket match on YouTube.

For streamers: get listed on Criconic

Do you stream local cricket on YouTube, Facebook or Instagram? Apply to become a Criconic streamer, and organizers can find you and send you requests.

1. In the app, open the menu and tap Become a Streamer. On the website, sign in and open Streamer Studio from your settings page. Tap Apply.
2. About you: your Channel name, a Link name (it becomes your overlay link, criconic.com/go-live/@yourname), at least one channel link, your City and, if you like, your channel logo. Fill in the city: it's what organizers search by.
3. Answer a few quick questions in Streaming so far, Your setup and Anything else, then tap Send application.

You'll see "Application sent". The Criconic team checks your channel and you get a notification once it's reviewed. If it isn't approved, the reason shows on the same screen and you can fix it and tap Apply again.

Once approved, your overlay link starts working, your profile gets the Streamer badge, you're in the directory, and requests from organizers land in your Streamer studio. To stream a match nobody hired you for, its organizer adds you as a co-scorer.