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Cricsheet

Free structured ball-by-ball cricket data for international and league matches, plus people and venue identifier registers, offered as bulk downloads in JSON, YAML and CSV.

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Commercial use: AllowedBetting use: not disclosedMostly positive
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SportDex Score

#14 of 233 sports APIs

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Popularity
43

Brand demand, developer discussions, GitHub repos and videos

Community & reliability
70

Tone of public discussions, liked vs criticised points, reliability complaints; based on only a few discussions, pulled towards neutral.

Transparency
90

Public prices, docs, terms and coverage you can check before calling sales

Developer experience
52

Free access, docs, SDKs, OpenAPI, sandbox, realtime delivery, ecosystem

Computed from public data only; uptime and latency are not measured yet. Enterprise feeds that sell by contract score lower on transparency by design. How the score works

Starting price
Not public
Free access
Free tier
Sports
1 (Cricket)
Live data
No
Delivery
CSV download
Discussions
3 threads
GitHub adoption
827 repos

Best for

Cricket analysts and researchers who want free ball-by-ball match data with person and venue ID registers, downloaded in bulk as JSON, YAML or CSV.

Cricket statistics researchPlayer and venue ID mappingHistorical match models

Not ideal for

Live scores or in-play apps, or anyone needing a REST API; it is bulk downloads of historical data only.

Limitations to check

  • − Bulk downloads only, no REST API
  • − No live data
  • − Attribution is required under the data licence
  • − Women's coverage is less complete than men's
  • − Some matches are missing from coverage

Written from the provider's own pages (source).

Last checked 2026-11-03

Cricsheet at a glance

What is Cricsheet best for?
Cricket analysts and researchers who want free ball-by-ball match data with person and venue ID registers, downloaded in bulk as JSON, YAML or CSV. Not ideal for: Live scores or in-play apps, or anyone needing a REST API; it is bulk downloads of historical data only.
How much does Cricsheet cost?
Cricsheet does not publish prices on the pages we checked.
Does Cricsheet have a free tier?
Yes. Cricsheet lists a free plan called "Free".
What does Cricsheet cover?
Cricsheet is a free / open data. Its sports: Cricket; data: Historical data, Play-by-play, Results, Team stats.
Does Cricsheet have a WebSocket or streaming API?
No streaming is listed. Cricsheet delivers data by CSV download, so you poll for updates.
Can I use Cricsheet data commercially or for betting?
According to the public terms of Cricsheet — commercial use: allowed; redistribution: allowed; storing data: allowed.
What do developers say about Cricsheet?
Free ball-by-ball cricket data in JSON, YAML and CSV, widely used for analytics packages, IPL analysis repos and dashboards, with millions of deliveries loaded into projects. Users value it as a free, detailed source. Limits: bulk file downloads only, with no live scores, so people look elsewhere for live APIs.
What are the alternatives to Cricsheet?
Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: CollegeFootballData.com, nflverse, Retrosheet, Sportradar, PandaScore.

Commercial decision

Pricing & plan limits

PlanPriceRequestsWhat's included
FreeFree—Bulk downloads; see Licensing page for termssource

Dataset download, no REST API. Formats list from catalog notes; licensing terms on a separate page not read.

Before choosing a paid plan, confirm

• What counts as one request (per call, per market, per region?)

• What happens when you exceed the quota: blocked or billed

• Whether live and historical data are on your plan

• Whether your use (public app, betting, resale) is licensed

The critical question

Data coverage

Sports
Cricket
Data types
Historical dataPlay-by-playResultsTeam stats
Key competitions
Indian Premier League, Big Bash League, The Hundred, Pakistan Super League, Caribbean Premier League, SA20, Major League Cricket, T20 Blast, County Championship, Sheffield Shield, Women's Premier League, Women's Big Bash Leaguesource
Competitions
Not disclosed
Live / in-play
No
Women's competitions
Yes
Betting markets
Not disclosed
Bookmaker regions
Not disclosed
Bookmakers
Not disclosed
History depth
23,193 matches with ball-by-ball data (Tests, ODIs, T20s and leagues)
Update frequency
Not disclosed
Name languages
Not disclosed
ID mapping
Offers other providers' IDs

Coverage often depends on the plan; confirm the exact league and season on your plan.

Before you build

Usage rights & access

Commercial use
Allowedsource
Betting products
Not disclosed
Redistribution
Allowed
Storing data
Allowed
Attribution
Required
Logos & photos
Not disclosed
Who can buy
Individuals, Companiessource
Verification (KYC)
Not required
Not available in
Not disclosed
Only available in
Not disclosed

Free public downloads, no signup mentioned

Read the terms

Developer-ready evaluation

Integration & documentation

Protocols
CSV download
Formats
JSON, YAML, CSV
Authentication
none
SDKs
Not disclosed
OpenAPI spec
Not disclosed
Claimed latency
Not disclosed
Status page
Not disclosed
Sandbox / test keys
Not disclosed
Support
email
SLA uptime
Not disclosed
Preview brief
# Integration brief: Cricsheet

Goal: build a feature on Cricsheet data. Use only the official documentation below as the source of truth.

## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them)
- Website: https://cricsheet.org
- Docs: https://cricsheet.org
- Sports: Cricket
- Data: Historical data, Play-by-play, Results, Team stats
- Protocols: CSV download; formats: json, yaml, csv
- Auth: none
- Free plan: Free
- Note: Dataset download, no REST API. Formats list from catalog notes; licensing terms on a separate page not read.

## Verify before writing code
- live update frequency
- exact endpoint paths, parameters and response fields (read the official docs, do not guess)

## Implementation rules
- Keep the API key on the server (environment variable, backend route or edge function); never ship it to the browser.
- Cache responses and respect rate limits; count how many requests each screen triggers.
- Handle errors explicitly: invalid key, quota exceeded (429), missing fields, empty fixtures, timeouts.
- Start with one demo request and log the raw response before building UI on assumed field names.

Data quality signals

Data source & company

Official partners
Not disclosed
How data is collected
Not disclosed
Certifications
Not disclosed
Payment methods
Not disclosed
Minimum contract
Not disclosed
Country
Not disclosed
Founded
Not disclosed

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What developers say

Mostly positivefree tiercoveragedocs

Free ball-by-ball cricket data in JSON, YAML and CSV, widely used for analytics packages, IPL analysis repos and dashboards, with millions of deliveries loaded into projects. Users value it as a free, detailed source. Limits: bulk file downloads only, with no live scores, so people look elsewhere for live APIs.

Praised for

  • Free ball-by-ball data
  • Open bulk formats
  • Used by many analysis packages

Complaints

  • Bulk downloads only, no live feed

Our summary of public discussions, not a rating. Vendor posts are not counted as user opinion.

Discussions

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Evidence & transparency

Official sources

Facts were extracted from the provider's own pages on 2026-11-03. Empty fields mean the provider does not say, not that the feature is missing. How we know