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.
