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Cricsheet Ball-by-Ball Cricket Data Scraper (IPL, T20, Tests & More)

Download ball-by-ball delivery data from Cricsheet — the canonical open cricket dataset. Returns one row per delivery across IPL, T20 World Cup, Tests, The Hundred, WBBL, and a dozen other competitions, with computed strike-rate and economy-rate columns included.

Cricsheet Scraper Features

• Downloads competition archives directly from Cricsheet — no scraping HTML, no pagination, no headaches
• Returns one row per delivery with full match context: teams, venue, season, innings, over, ball number
• Covers 16 competitions: IPL, Men's T20I, Women's T20I, Tests, ODIs, The Hundred, BBL, WBBL, CPL, PSL, SA20, LPL, and more
• Computes strike rate and economy rate per batter/bowler at each ball — running totals, not career averages
• Captures wicket type and dismissed player on dismissal balls
• Captures extra type (wides, no-balls, byes, leg-byes) on extra deliveries
• maxItems cap for fast sampling — 5 balls for a quick test, unlimited for the full archive
• No browser, no proxy, no anti-bot. Cricsheet is open data.

What Can You Do With Cricsheet Ball-by-Ball Data?

• Fantasy cricket analysts — Build ball-by-ball performance models for IPL or T20 World Cup — the dataset has every delivery from every season Cricsheet covers
• Data scientists & ML engineers — Train batting/bowling prediction models on millions of deliveries with clean, structured features
• Cricket statisticians — Compute career averages, phase-by-phase economy rates, powerplay strike rates, partnership data — it's all in the delivery rows
• Sports betting researchers — Build in-match probability models using historical ball sequence data
• Journalists & broadcasters — Pull match context and scoring patterns for retrospective coverage. The Hundred 2026 and T20 World Cup archives are live.
• Educators — Use real match data for sports analytics courses without wrangling messy CSV exports

How the Cricsheet Scraper Works

1. You select one or more competition keys (e.g. ["ipl", "t20s"]) and an optional maxItems cap
2. The scraper downloads each competition's zip archive directly from Cricsheet (typically 5–20 MB per competition)
3. Each zip contains one JSON file per match. The scraper reads every match in the archive
4. For each delivery in each innings, it emits one output row — with match metadata, delivery fields, and running cumulative stats for that batter and bowler in that innings

Input

{
"competitions":["ipl","t20s"],
"maxItems":1000
}

Valid competition keys:

Cricsheet Scraper Output Fields

{
"match_id":"1082591",
"competition":"IPL",
"season":"2017",
"venue":"Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal",
"city":"Hyderabad",
"date":"2017-04-05",
"team_1":"Sunrisers Hyderabad",
"team_2":"Royal Challengers Bangalore",
"winner":"Sunrisers Hyderabad",
"innings":1,
"over":0,
"ball":1,
"batter":"DA Warner",
"bowler":"TS Mills",
"non_striker":"S Dhawan",
"runs_off_bat":0,
"extras":0,
"extra_type":"",
"wicket_kind":"",
"dismissed_player":"",
"batter_runs_cumulative":0,
"bowler_balls_bowled":1,
"strike_rate":0,
"economy_rate":0,
"source":"ipl_male_json.zip"
}

FAQ

How do I scrape IPL ball-by-ball data?

The Cricsheet Scraper downloads the full IPL archive with competitions: ["ipl"]. The IPL archive covers all seasons Cricsheet has ball-by-ball records for — roughly 2008 onwards. The current archive is around 1,200+ matches.

How much does the Cricsheet Scraper cost to run?

The scraper is priced per delivery record. At the default PPE coefficient, a full IPL archive run (roughly 700,000+ deliveries) costs a few cents. Cricsheet is open data, so there are no proxy or residential IP costs.

Does the Cricsheet Scraper need a proxy or browser?

No. Cricsheet.org is a fully open, publicly accessible dataset with no bot protection. The scraper uses direct HTTP downloads with no browser required.

What is the strike_rate field?

It's the batter's running strike rate in this innings at the point of this delivery — not a career figure. Computed as (cumulative runs off bat) / (balls faced) × 100. It updates on every legal delivery.

Can I get the full T20 World Cup dataset?

The t20s competition key covers all men's T20 Internationals in the Cricsheet archive, which includes T20 World Cup matches. Use competitions: ["t20s"] with no maxItems cap to get the full archive.

Why does Cricsheet have more records than competitors?

The Cricsheet Scraper pulls data from Cricsheet directly — a dedicated ball-by-ball cricket data project that has been maintained since 2012. The existing scrapers on Apify have 2–4 users combined; none compute derived statistics inline.

Need More Features?

Open a feature request on the actor page — common requests include filtered exports by date range, competition-specific schemas, or batched competition sweeps.

Why Use the Cricsheet Scraper?

• Derived stats included — Strike rate and economy rate per batter/bowler are computed inline, not left as an exercise for the analyst
• Multi-competition in one run — Pass multiple keys and get a unified, normalized dataset across all selected competitions
• Open data, minimal cost — Cricsheet is a public archive; the only cost is the per-record PPE charge, which is low
• No proxy, no browser, no fragility — Direct zip downloads from Cricsheet's CDN. Nothing to break when a UI changes.