A 2 over and 5 over cricket game for your phone

A Blitz match is 2 overs a side, twelve balls each. It is over in a few minutes, and with so few balls there is no time to play yourself in: one big over or one great yorker can win it.

Blitz suits you if you have five minutes, not twenty, or if you are playing 1 v 1 or with a small group. Bat as if every ball is the last over, because it nearly is. When bowling, your two overs must come from your two best bowlers, and a single wide can decide the match.

A Quick match is 5 overs a side, thirty balls each. Five overs is where cricket's shape appears: a start, a middle and a finish. A side can lose an early wicket and rebuild, and a bowler can be saved for the last over.

Quick suits a full lobby where everyone wants a turn, and anyone who likes a chase that builds to something. Keep wickets in hand for the last two overs, and plan which bowler finishes before the innings starts.

The same rules hold in both formats, and they adjust to the size of your sides.

• Wickets: a side has as many wickets as it has players, with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 10. In 1 v 1 you have two wickets; a 3 v 3 match has three a side.
• Bowling: the fielding captain picks the bowler before each over, nobody bowls two overs in a row unless the side has only one player, and the overs are shared across the side.
• Extras: a wide or a no-ball gives one run and is bowled again, and the ball after a no-ball is a free hit.
• The finish: the side batting second wins the moment it passes the target. Level scores are a tie; there is no super over in the current build.

If you are new, start with Blitz against a friend: it feels like a final over, twice. When you can score freely in two overs, five will feel like a luxury, and Quick plays like a short match with a story. Want to learn first? Practice mode against Lumi AI is a separate offline match, and our game modes page shows every way to play.