About r/Cricket
In its own words:
News, banter and occasional serious discussion on the great game.
Community guide
r/Cricket (#584, about 1.9 million subscribers) is oriented around: News, banter and occasional serious discussion on the great game. Recent activity samples show 86 posts/day in recent samples (~36% text, ~33% image, ~17% link). Public rules we collected include: No abuse, racism, homophobia, sexism, trolling, or harassment; No reposts; No editorialised or bad post titles, or paywalled articles without the content; No irrelevant politics/religion, or posts unrelated to cricket; English language only, unless including a translation.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps. Low-effort memes or empty shitposts are commonly removed—add context that fits the room’s purpose. Civility and anti-harassment rules are explicit; personal attacks get you removed regardless of how right you think you are.
How it differs from lookalikes
Match-day chatter and news aggregation differ from fantasy-league or single-team supporter subs. The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities.
Practical pointers
Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; collected rules can lag. Search the sub before reposting common clips or questions. Avoid clickbait titles; say what the post actually is. Common flairs in samples include: Discussion, Match Thread, News, Stats.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 12, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 6,248 subscribers (+0.33%). It sits just behind r/algotrading (#583) and ahead of r/TattooDesigns (#585) in our ranking.
What sets r/Cricket apart
Posts here spark a lot of conversation: the archive averages 61.2 comments per post, roughly 4.7× the typical big subreddit (13.1). For its size it is unusually busy: about 45.6 new posts a day per million members, more than 85% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 1.70% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 98% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (12:00 UTC) sees about 8.1× as many posts as the quietest (22:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Cricket went up from 1,861,138 to 1,892,827 subscribers (+31.7K, +1.70%). That is about 720 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Cricket talks about
Across 604 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “match”, “test”, “india”, “odi” and “series”. Other frequent themes are australia, south, t20i, africa, zealand and world. Recurring phrases include “south africa”, “world cup”, “glenn phillips” and “sri lanka”. By format, 36% are text posts, 33% are images and 17% are links.
Popular post flairs: Discussion (101), Match Thread (65), News (56), Stats (34), Image (29), Highlights (17).
Activity and best time to post
r/Cricket gets about 86 new posts a day. The public archive holds 529,404 posts and 32,392,345 comments in total, about 61.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (125 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (61). Posting peaks around 12:00 UTC and is lowest around 22:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Cricket
The moderators of r/Cricket list 10 rules. In short:
- No abuse, racism, homophobia, sexism, trolling, or harassment
- No reposts
- No editorialised or bad post titles, or paywalled articles without the content
- No irrelevant politics/religion, or posts unrelated to cricket
- English language only, unless including a translation
- No flamebait, or insults/generalisations targeting an entire nation or fanbase
- No memes or low effort content
- No streams or illegal/copyrighted content
- No toxic fan behaviour
- No highly specific/trivial stat posts and low-effort match event posts
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Cricket and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/Cricket?
r/Cricket has 1,892,827 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #584 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 31,689 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/Cricket created?
r/Cricket was created on Mar 12, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
Is r/Cricket still active?
Yes. r/Cricket gets about 86 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 529,404 posts and 32,392,345 comments. In a sample of 604 recent posts we counted 295 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/Cricket?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 12:00 UTC, with the fewest around 22:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/Cricket?
The community describes itself as: “News, banter and occasional serious discussion on the great game.” Recent post titles often mention match, test, india, odi and series. Most posts are text posts (36%).
Is r/Cricket SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Cricket as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/Cricket?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Cricket accepts both text and link posts, with images and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “No abuse, racism, homophobia, sexism, trolling, or harassment”; “No reposts”; “No editorialised or bad post titles, or paywalled articles without the content”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/Cricket?
Communities with similar topics include r/IndiaCricket (1.5M), r/FreeEBOOKS (2.4M), r/london (1.6M), r/madlads (2.2M) and r/popculturechat (6.7M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Cricket.