Live stream your club cricket matches with FrogBox

The popularity of FrogBox has seen over 500 cricket clubs across the UK live stream their matches over the last couple of years.

In this article, we’ll look at the costs, equipment, benefits and what’s new for 2024. After you’ve done your research, if your club decides to buy a streaming kit, there’s good news…

(🎉 OFFER: If you purchase Frogbox, use CY24 for 5% Off which is nearly £100).

Here in Yorkshire, dozens of clubs from the Halifax Cricket League to the North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket League now use FrogBox to broadcast their games live on YouTube, automatically capture highlights, showcase sponsors and connect with supporters across the world.

The FrogBox Streaming Kit & Streaming Pass – What’s included?

The FrogBox Kit – £1,400

Panasonic Camera with exclusive wind noise reduction kit
Remote-controlled pan & tilt head
Automated Video Streaming Encoder (4G and Ethernet enabled)
4.3m camera mast, with carry bag and weight bags
20hr battery (run independently of mains power)
7-inch LCD Video Viewer
Secure, waterproof carry case
Cables, chargers, spares included

The Streaming Pass – £350/Year 1 (£400/yr afterwards)

This is where the magic happens to live stream to YouTube, add sponsors to live footage, automatically get highlights clips and overlay scores from Play-Cricket.  

🏏 Overlay live scores from your official scoring app
🏏 Customise your club and sponsor images to appear on the stream  
🏏 Highlights are automatically generated and clipped

🏏 Stream directly to YouTube
🏏 A dedicated public match centre containing the live stream, live scores and highlights 

(🎉 OFFER: If you purchase Frogbox, use CY24 for 5% Off which is nearly £100).

Getting support

Inevitably, clubs will have questions about set up and operation as they live stream their games. You’ll have a range of options from a comprehensive knowledge base to submitting a support ticket.  

In addition, there is a designated support team on hand every single match day via the club’s own private WhatsApp group for peace of mind.

What’s new for 2024?  

The technology with FrogBox is always evolving to include new features and improvements after feedback from the growing community of clubs, schools and universities. They have added a wet weather cover and encoder clamp which raises the encoder to improve the 4G signal.   

A self-service portal is in development to allow clubs to submit their own match requests and upload sponsorship assets. This is likely to be live in the early part of the 2024 UK outdoor season or earlier. 

Scoring options + FrogBox

Deciding on whether to buy FrogBox is usually a couple of key decisions for any club.  

a. Cost – Either bought upfront, a fundraising effort or secure a live streaming sponsor.  

b. Compatibility – FrogBox works with Play-Cricket Scorer app and Play-Cricket Live.

We’ll be exploring how clubs find sponsors and fundraise for their FrogBox. I’ve interviewed various clubs who’ve been able to find commercial partners because it’s a benefit to the club and the sponsor gets coverage all season that accumulates between YouTube and social media.

Also, the good news is that the ECB adds updates across each year for the Play-Cricket Scorer app and this now includes the option to print out DLS within the PCS app. (Some leagues require this). 

Lilypad  

Lilypad is a fan engagement tool by FrogBox that launched in 2023 and helps clubs select highlights from matches, build playlists and easily share them.

That might be full match highlights, sixes, wickets for a particular bowler, incredible catches or a comedy collection of bloopers.

One of the obstacles club volunteers might feel prevents them from choosing FrogBox is what you do with this mountain of footage collected by the camera.  

Lilypad allows you to access all your highlights and create highlight packages nice and quickly. No need for hours of editing. All packaged so you can blast out bite-sized pieces of content on social media to grow your audience and engage with your community.