We have modified the worksheet so that it will automatically update the scoreboard as the game progresses. You have been warned! Scoreboard integration However, it is best to use this spreadsheet alongside a physical scorebook, just in case. Please note: I have had problems with the sheet crashing excel, but think I have weeded out most of the problems introduced by integrating the external board. When you save the sheet, you must select the xlsm file format to prevent excel from disabling the macros and code that make the scorebook work.

When you open the template, it will automatically start a new workbook for you, so you wont be overwriting the original. You should now score the game, and then at the end of the day you should save the file. Once you click Ok the scorebook is started and you can click the buttons in the middle of the Main Scoreboard page each time a ball is bowled. You can edit the type of game, and the players by typing in to the form. Once opened you will be shown the new game form. The first time it is opened you might get a macro warning error, which you should acknowledge to enable the scorebook to work correctly. Once you have virus checked it, you can open it with excel. This is a template file that you can use to start a new game Once you have unzipped the file in to a suitable directory, you will see the Scorebook with External Scoreboard.xltm file. You can then download the scorebook and the helpfile from our site. In order to make the excel sheet to work, you will need a Windows laptop running a Excel 2007 or above (I tested and developed with excel 2010). I am very happy with the way the integration works, and Michael W (the original author) very kindly gave us permission to upload the new version to the website to share with the scoreboard building community! I had a quick look at how the scorebook worked, and then we started work on integrating it with the electronic scoreboard by adding in lots of VBA code.

It also acts as a permanent record of a cricket match, as scorebooks are saved for the specific game.

It has a very simple interface, and keeps tracks of lots of interesting stats. The scorebook allows you to score a cricket match using excel. Laver and Wood are a bat manufacturing company from New Zealand, and Mike W (the original author) was a student when he started to develop the VBA code built in to the excel sheet, around 10 years ago. As part of the project, Tony sent me a copy of the Laver and Wood excel scorebook. When Tony stumbled across our site, he started working on updating his existing board to make use the Arduino and shifter design outlines on this site. Tony from Dyrham and Hinton CC is a home build electronic scoreboard pioneer, having built his own fantastic electronic scoreboard, set with manual dials on the back of the board, several years before we did.

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