There are lots of very good ways to get cricket scores on the internet. If you want ball-by-ball commentary, wagon wheels, video clips, scorecards, player stats, match reports, tables, alerts, news, and more then you should use one of the proper cricket apps or websites. They are better at this than my tiny watch app.

I made CricketWatch because those apps are trying to cater to everyone, and I just want to know one or two things. Show me the live England and Surrey matches on my wrist. Not every match. Not every league. Not the IPL unless Surrey have taken a very strange turn. Just the sides I actually want to keep half an eye on while doing something else.

It’s important to remember that cricket just keeps on going, and you have other things to do as well. Matches last hours, or days, or several days but only if it does not rain, and sometimes the important thing is not the current score but the shape of the score. 409/10 and 192/3 is not just data. It is a mood.

That is the reason to make an app which duplicates things I can get better elsewhere. Elsewhere has everything and a lot of scrolling and tapping. Here has the two teams I care about, a few rows of score, and a refresh button. I’m not going to pretend anyone else wants this exact thing, but you can absolutely build your own by checking this out, building it and using adb to pop it onto your watch.