Follow the cricket at work
Cricket and the working day are old adversaries. A Test runs for days; even a one-dayer is hours long; and an overseas series means play through your office hours. Here's how to follow every session — Tests, ODIs and T20Is — from your desk without it showing.
Why international cricket is hard to follow at work
No sport tests the discreet follower like cricket: a Test match unfolds across five working days, and an away series in another time zone means live play lands squarely in your workday, every day. A scorecard open for hours is a giveaway in itself.
Live scores and the table — without the video
You don't need to watch to follow. Live scores, a running commentary feed and an up-to-the-minute table tell you the whole story at a glance and read as plain text and numbers rather than sport. Sport Spreadsheet loads every fixture, score and standing into a live spreadsheet wearing authentic Google Sheets or Excel chrome — and the boss key blurs it all behind an Excel “Protected View” in a single keystroke.
Built for the long format
Because a scorecard is already a grid of numbers, cricket hides in a spreadsheet better than any sport. Follow the slow burn of a Test — a building partnership, a clatter of wickets — as rows of figures that look like a report you've had open all day. Which, in a sense, you have.
What you get
- Live international cricket scores that refresh on their own, with a changed score flashing like a recalculated cell.
- Live scores by innings — runs, wickets, overs and run rate — that update through every session.
- Brief or detailed commentary, lineups and a stats comparison on any match.
- Disguise personas that relabel the fixtures as a project tracker or pipeline.
- A one-key boss button, and an F9 “recalculate” for extra cover.
Open the spreadsheet
Today's fixtures and the live table are one quiet tab away. Free, instant, no account.