More cricket than you can play.
Pavilion is an independent game made in New Zealand by a cricket coach. It's free, it runs alongside real international cricket, and it's built for anyone who wants more of the game.
Where it came from
Pavilion is played at a village cricket club in England. It's what the juniors play in the last twenty minutes of training, and it has closed the session there for years.
It runs against most of what junior coaching teaches. Modern sessions are built on maximising touches. In Pavilion, players queue to bat, fielders wait, and a side bats until it's all out. On paper it shouldn't hold a group of nine-year-olds. In practice they ask for it every week.
The reason is the Reload. A side that loses its last batter is out, unless someone still in clears the rope, which brings the whole team back. Nobody is ever quite out of it, and one shot can rescue the game for everybody.
The rules come from the grass. The game gives them a second home, so Pavilion isn't limited to one field in one village.
Why a phone
A young player who wants to play often gets about an hour a week, then waits seven days for the next one.
A free game doesn't replace a club, and it isn't meant to. It fills the days in between: somewhere to play, to improve, and to find out the game is worth turning up for.
Why real matches
The best moment in cricket is the innings break: a total on the board and everyone asking whether it's enough. Pavilion puts you in it. When a real international innings ends, that exact target goes live, and you chase it while the real chase is about to start.
What a pavilion is for
Below the professional game, cricket's value is the club. People arrive from different places and circumstances, and for the length of a session none of it counts for much. A pavilion is a building whose only job is to make room for people. The ambition is a club anyone can walk into, from anywhere, on a device they already own.
The mark says the same thing: a roof for home, a sun rising over the ground, and a line for the ground itself, which is also the bat.
How it's made
Pavilion is independent: no publisher, no outside investment and no ads. It isn't linked to any cricket team, board or player.