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Cricsheet

Open ball-by-ball cricket data source (CC BY 3.0) behind IPL historical and MLC content.

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https://cricsheet.org
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Cricsheet

Summary

Cricsheet publishes ball-by-ball data for cricket matches under a permissive open license. In this bundle it underpins IPL historical (2007/08–2025) and Major League Cricket content.

License

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).

  • Allowed: use, adaptation, and redistribution of derived summaries, with attribution.
  • Required: credit Cricsheet and indicate changes.
  • Disallowed: removing attribution or implying Cricsheet endorsement.

Allowed Use in OKF

Files derived from Cricsheet carry source_boundary: public_open_data and must preserve the Cricsheet credit (see ATTRIBUTION.md). Derived aggregates and claims are publishable.

Attribution Statement

Match data sourced from Cricsheet (https://cricsheet.org), licensed under CC BY 3.0.

Citation Expectations

When an agent answers using IPL-historical or MLC content, it should credit Cricsheet as the underlying data source in addition to citing the canonical CricketStudio page.

Data Notes

  • Cricsheet identifies players with its own person IDs; CricketStudio bridges these to canonical slugs deterministically (never fuzzy-matched).
  • Historical coverage spans 18 IPL seasons and MLC 2023–2026.

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