What is Cricsheet?
Cricsheet is a collection of projects which collectively provide data for various aspects of cricket. The current projects provide ball-by-ball match data for Men’s and Women’s Test Matches, One-day internationals, Twenty20 Internationals, some other international T20s, various club competitions such as the Afghanistan Premier League, Big Bash League, T20 Blaze, Bangladesh Premier League, Bob Willis Trophy, County Championship, Charlotte Edwards Cup, Caribbean Premier League, CSA T20 Challenge, FairBreak Invitational Tournament, The Hundred, International League T20, Indian Premier League, Cricket Ireland Inter-Provincial Limited Over Cup, Cricket Ireland Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Trophy, Lanka Premier League, Major League Cricket, Mzansi Super League, Nepal Premier League, T20 Blast, Plunket Shield, Pakistan Super League, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, One-Day Cup, SA20, Super 50, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Sheffield Shield, Super Smash, Women's Big Bash League, Women's Caribbean Premier League, ECB Women's One-Day Cup, Women's Premier League, Women's Cricket Super League, and Women's T20 Challenge; and a registry of people linking the identifiers used for them on various sites.
Match Data
At the moment we have ball-by-ball information for 18,846 matches comprising 863 Test matches, 17 other multi-day matches, 2,954 One-day internationals, 463 other one-day matches, 4,167 T20 internationals, 320 international T20s, 0 Afghanistan Premier League matches, 618 Big Bash League matches, 17 T20 Blaze matches, 435 Bangladesh Premier League matches, 47 Bob Willis Trophy matches, 1,276 County Championship matches, 124 Charlotte Edwards Cup matches, 368 Caribbean Premier League matches, 314 CSA T20 Challenge matches, 39 FairBreak Invitational Tournament matches, 254 The Hundred matches, 100 International League T20 matches, 1,153 Indian Premier League matches, 74 Cricket Ireland Inter-Provincial Limited Over Cup matches, 82 Cricket Ireland Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Trophy matches, 119 Lanka Premier League matches, 42 Major League Cricket matches, 56 Mzansi Super League matches, 32 Nepal Premier League matches, 1,323 T20 Blast matches, 272 Plunket Shield matches, 306 Pakistan Super League matches, 189 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy matches, 735 One-Day Cup matches, 99 SA20 matches, 8 Super 50 matches, 695 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy matches, 178 Sheffield Shield matches, 407 Super Smash matches, 477 Women's Big Bash League matches, 18 Women's Caribbean Premier League matches, 24 ECB Women's One-Day Cup matches, 66 Women's Premier League matches, 95 Women's Cricket Super League matches, and 13 Women's T20 Challenge matches featuring 107 countries, 256 club teams, and 3 representative XIs going back as far as 2003 (for women), and 2001 (for men).
Cricsheet Register
The Register consists of multiple CSV files containing entries for 16,388 people, and including 25,777 identifiers from 12 sources, along with 8,715 name variations for them.
This data allows a person to be correctly identified by their ids on various sites, such as CricketArchive, Cricinfo, CricHQ, Pulse etc., and was used for that purpose on the Cricket Scorecard Accuracy Project.
How can I help?
Spotting errors in the data
The first method of helping would be to spot any errors in the data. Ideally we won’t have any but there’s always the chance and if we can spot the errors we can fix them and write further validation to ensure that further examples don’t slip through.
Helping with missing data
The second method of helping is to help us get ball-by-ball data for our missing games. This doesn’t even have to involve finding the data, it’s possible you know a contact who may be able to shed light on some matches, or you know of someone who has the commentary for a match on tape. Even small bits of info might be enough to put us on the right track.
Articles
We do have an infrequent blog to which we occasionally post about updates to the data format, additions to the site, or random musings. The most recent entry was “Explanation for withholding of Afghanistani matches” on the 14th of November, 2024.
Getting in touch
You can contact the project by following the instructions on the Contact page. Don't worry, it just involves an email, however I do provide answers for some of the common queries I receive so you may not even need to get in touch!