Daily cricket puzzle: guess the cricketer

Play the free daily guess the cricketer puzzle: find the mystery player in six tries using country, role, age and career runs. A new cricketer every day.

The WicketOut daily cricket puzzle is a free guess-the-cricketer game. Every day there is one mystery player, the same for everyone in the world, taken from the 280+ men's and women's cricketers in our database.

To play, type a player's name and make a guess. After each guess the game compares your player with the mystery one on country, men's or women's game, role, whether they are still playing, birth year and career runs in Tests, ODIs and T20Is. Green means an exact match, yellow means close, and an arrow shows which way the answer lies. You have six guesses, and the blurred photo gets sharper with every one.

The facts come from the same Wikipedia-based career statistics that power our player pages, so once the game ends you can open the full profile of the answer. A new puzzle starts at midnight UTC. You can share your result as a row of coloured squares, on WhatsApp for example, without giving the answer away. Your stats and streak stay on your own device.

Yesterday's answer

Puzzle #5 was Washington Sundar (India). See all past answers.

Cricket puzzle questions

What is the daily cricket puzzle?

A free guess-the-cricketer game on WicketOut. Each day has one mystery player, and you try to find them in six guesses using clues about country, role, birth year and career runs.

How do the colours and arrows work?

Green is an exact match and yellow is close: born within three years, or career runs within 25%. Grey means no match. An arrow shows where the answer lies: up means the mystery player was born later or has more runs, down means earlier or fewer.

When does a new puzzle start?

At midnight UTC every day. That is 5:00 am in Pakistan and 5:30 am in India.

Do I need an account to play?

No. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay. Your results, streak and stats are saved only in your own browser.

Which players can be the answer?

Players in the WicketOut database with enough international career statistics, men and women, from current stars to retired legends.

Where do the clues come from?

From the same Wikipedia-based career statistics shown on our player pages. They can lag very recent matches, so recent runs may be slightly out of date.

Can I see earlier answers?

Yes. The past answers page lists every previous puzzle and links to each player. Today's answer is hidden until tomorrow.