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Added on September 16, 2022 Analysis

Performance Analysis Of India In Asia Cup 2022

Asia Cup 2022 was a fantastic and thrilling event in which no match was one-sided and each match gave thrills and excitement. Almost every game was a nail-biter. The Sri Lankan team, who were the least likely to compete in this competition, won the Asia Cup 2022 title. They proved that they were not the underdog they are the champions. India In Asia Cup 2022 The Indian team came up as the first contender who can win this tournament. The team came up with a full-strength squad though the two main frontline bowlers were missing in the squad Japsrit Bhumra and Harshal Patel due to injury.India began the season with two victories and qualified for the super 4, however in […]

Added on September 7, 2022 Fantasy Point

Fantasy Match Points

Fantasy gaming in cricket is becoming increasingly popular. Many new startups in the world are increasingly based on fantasy gaming, demonstrating the global craze for fantasy gaming. Through their knowledge, expertise, and comprehension of the game, many people worldwide participate in fantasy gaming and succeed at it. Make your own rule set Rules are the fundamental and crucial component of any game you play. You should preferably sign up and create your own Rule Set so Fantasy Points are calculated as per YOUR preference, this will make it easier to integrate the platform. “PER” means the rule applies for every such event. Otherwise the it applies just ONCE. “BONUS” points can be cumulative. Make Your Rules Default Rule Set Here […]

Added on August 9, 2022 Squad

Asia Cup 2022 Squad India

Indian Team For Asia Cup 2022 1) Rohit Sharma (C) 2) KL Rahul (VC) 3) Virat Kohli 4) Suryakumar Yadhav 5) Rishab Pant (WK) 6) Deepak Hooda 7) Dinesh Kartik(WK) 8) Hardik Pandya 9) Ravindra Jadeja 10) Ravichandran Ashwin 11) Yuzvendra Chahal 12) Ravi Bishnoi 13) Bhuvneshwar Kumar 14) Arshdeep Singh 15) Avesh Khan Batter Batter Batter Batter Batter All Rounder Batter All Rounder All Rounder All Rounder Bowler Bowler Bowler Bowler Bowler

Added on August 5, 2022 Uncategorized

WordPress Plugin For Widget

User Guide For Widget WordPress Plugin In WordPress, a plugin is a small software application that extends the features and functions of a WordPress website. The WordPress plugin API offers a robust set of hooks and filters which allow developers to modify existing WordPress functionality or add new functionality. They make it easier for users to add features to their website without knowing a single line of code. This plugin inserts the CricketData Widget script into your site, simplifying implementation for non-technical WordPress users Follow The Steps 1 Open your WordPress account, click the admin sidebar, click the plugin, and then select the “Add New” option from the menu in the admin sidebar. 2 The choose file option will appear on the […]

Added on July 5, 2022 Analyses

Last Time When India Played Against England In T20I

England Tour of India T20I 2021 Team India is scheduled to play 3 T20Is against England from 7 July(2022) – 10 July (2022). Rohit Sharma and Jos Buttler, the two dynamic openers, will be leading their respective teams in the series which serves as a preparation to fine-tune their best squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia. The last time India and England played against each other in T20I was in a 5-match T20I bilateral series from March 12 (2021) – March(2021) at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. India won the series 3-2 after winning the decider 5th match. It was a debut series in the Indian cricket team for Ishan Kishan and Surya Kumar Yadav. India were without their […]

Added on July 4, 2022 Uncategorized

Fetching Cricket Score easily in R

Using CricketData API in R is very simple. We’ll assume you know how to work with data in R, so we’ll just fetch the API data and give it to you in an R variable named “btc”. Thereafter you can manipulate the variable ‘btc’ and display/process the output as you see fit! In R , use this code: install.packages(“jsonlite”) library(“jsonlite”) btc <-jsonlite::fromJSON(“https://api.cricapi.com/v1/cricScoreapikey=%APIKEY%”) btc Replace %APIKEY% with your CricketData.org API key. And that’s it! The output will be as per the screenshot below

Added on June 29, 2022 Analyses

The Underdog Story — Gujarat Titans 2022 IPL Season Analysis

GUJARAT TITANS 2022 IPL SEASON ANALYSIS Cricket is a team game, and helped by individual brilliance on that particular day. One team that clearly defined the above statement in IPL 2022 was the title-winning team Gujarat Titans. Nobody gave them a chance when the auctions were over. However, Gujarat Titans defied all the odds against them to become the 2nd team to win an IPL trophy in their maiden season. They won the finals against the […]

Added on June 27, 2022 Analyses

Players To Look Out For – India Tour of England Rescheduled 5th Test Match 2022

India toured England in 2021 for a 5 match test series to kick off the second edition of the World Test Championship cycle 2021-2023. The 5th test was postponed indefinitely due to Covid 19 pandemic and the series stands at 2-1 in favor of India. The 5th Test between England and India is scheduled to be held between July 1-5 at Edgbaston, Birmingham. An interesting fact is that both teams will be having a new skipper leading their respective teams. Rohit Sharma for India and Ben Stokes for England. Also, both the teams have new head coaches – Rahul Dravid and Brendon McCullum. The reports say that Rohit Sharma had tested positive for Covid on June 26, 2022, and if […]

Added on June 8, 2022 Uncategorized

Fetching CricScore easily in Python 3

Using CricketData API in Python is very simple. We’ll assume you know how to work with data in Python, so we’ll just fetch the API data and give it to you in a Python variable named “data”. Thereafter you can manipulate the variable ‘data’ and display / process the output as you see fit! In Python 3, use this code: import urllib.request, json with urllib.request.urlopen(“https://api.cricapi.com/v1/cricScore?apikey=%APIKEY%”) as url: data = json.loads(url.read().decode()) print(data) Replace %APIKEY% with your CricketData.org API key. And that’s it! The output will be as per the screenshot below

Analysis of awesome crazy overs in Cricket!

Added on June 7, 2022 Analyses

Analyzing Crazy Overs

KKR VS MI Match 14 IPL 2022: CRAZY OVER NO 16 Over: 64662NB46 It’s the 14th match of IPL 2022 between MI and KKR at MCA, Pune. KKR are chasing 162. At 15 overs, they are at 127/5 with 35 runs needed off 30 balls. One would think that the odds favour the batting side and rightly so. KKR had Pat Cummins (22* off 8) and Venkatesh Iyer (50* off 41) at the crease and the rest were tail enders to follow. Of the 30 balls, 6 balls are to be bowled by Bumrah, so you would give the bowling side a fair bit of chance. But that one over which succeeded sealed the deal for the Knight Riders. What happened? […]

Added on May 23, 2022 Uncategorized

IPL 2022 Qualifiers, Semis and Finals!

IPL 2022 Qualifiers / Semis / Finals assets – to use in your site! Set III of the Complementary assets made as FanArt by the CricketData team designers – you can download and use these as you need. The images are 1280×600 pixels and fully optimized for web/app use. Get Set 1 here: https://cricketdata.org/25-march-ipl-2022-match-assets/ Get Set 2 here. https://cricketdata.org/26-march-ipl-2022-matches-48-70/ We’ve released BOTH possible variations of the IPL Finals – so that way you’re well prepared as soon as tomorrow’s (27 May 2022) match gets over! Last update 26 May 2022 Finals Variation 1 Finals Variation 2

Added on May 5, 2022 Uncategorized

Fantasy Cricket is not Gambling court judgement 2021

Games of Skill and Fantasy Sports in the United States of America The principal federal statute that deals with online fantasy sports in the U.S. is the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, 2006 (“UIGEA 2006”) which was enacted to combat internet gambling. The UICEA 2006 specifically exempts from its purview any fantasy sports games that “have an outcome that reflects the relative knowledge of the participants, or their skill at physical reaction or physical manipulation (but not chance), and, has an outcome that is determined predominantly by accumulated statistical results of sporting events, including any individual performances in such sporting events.” and satisfy the below criteria: • All prizes and awards offered to winning participants are established and made known […]

Added on May 3, 2022 Uncategorized

WebSocket Rules

Websocket API coming soon!

Added on April 30, 2022 Uncategorized

About CricAPI

Know more about Cricket API The desire to provide high quality cricket data at affordable prices remains with us. We use a high performance AI engine with human entry to capture real time information about matches, analyze it and make it available through our systems. We don’t scrape data from any site, and anything you get on CricketData is produced directly by our own team, and analyzed by our own algorithms. You can rest assured of the quality and consistency of data. At this time we’re still building up our team, so do check out the Careers page if you’d like to join us and get paid to watch cricket! (T&C apply). About CricAPI This is the history of […]

Added on April 30, 2022 Uncategorized

v1.0 Launch 1st May 2022

CricketData v1.0 is moving from BETA into v1.0 LAUNCH mode today. Thank you for being with us for the BETA and your feedback was most valuable! YES we will continue to accept your precious feedback even in future, so reach out on contact@cricketdata.org any time 24×7 and we’ll try to revert ASAP. Accordingly, Fantasy APIs are now NOT free anymore. Please take a paid plan if you wish to use them consistently. We won’t block you, but if you still use Fantasy APIs in the Lifetime Free plan, it will cost you 10 credits per hit. If you have a paid plan, Fantasy APIs will only cost you 1 credit per hit. The cheapest $5.99 plan is very affordable and […]

Build your Fantasy Cricket platform using CricAPI

Added on April 5, 2022 Uncategorized

Default Rules for Fantasy Points API

Here are the default rules for the Fantasy Points API. You should preferably sign up and create your own Rule Set so Fantasy Points are calculated as per YOUR preference, this will make it easier to integrate the platform. “PER” means the rule applies for every such event. Otherwise the it applies just ONCE. “BONUS” points can be cumulative. You can also Make your OWN Rules Fantasy Points for Batting The key metric for batting is “Runs”. The secondary metric is “Strike Rate”. Calculations are done accordingly. Key metric (Runs) points: +1 point PER run +1 point PER four +2 points PER six -2 points if dismissed for a 0 Bonus Points +4 bonus points for scoring 30 […]

Added on March 26, 2022 Uncategorized

26 March IPL 2022 Matches 48-70

IPL 2022 Match assets – SET II – to use in your site! Set II of the Complementary assets made as FanArt by the CricketData team designers – you can download and use these as you need. The images are 1280×600 pixels and fully optimized for web/app use. All match banners will be available once the remaining matches are declared. Get Set 1 here: https://cricketdata.org/25-march-ipl-2022-match-assets/ IPL-Match-36-RCB-vs-SH IPL-Match-37-LSG-vs-MI IPL-Match-38-PK-vs-CSK IPL-Match-39-RCB-vs-RR IPL-Match-40-GT-vs-SH IPL-Match-41-DC-vs-KKR IPL-Match-42-PK-vs-LSG IPL-Match-43-GT-vs-RCB IPL-Match-44-RR-vs-MI IPL-Match-45-DC-vs-LSG IPL-Match-46-SH-vs-CSK IPL-Match-47-KKR-vs-RR IPL-Match-48-GT-vs-PK IPL-Match-49-RCB-vs-CSK IPL-Match-50-DC-vs-SH IPL-Match-51-GT-vs-MI IPL-Match-52-PK-vs-RR IPL-Match-53-LSG-vs-KKR IPL-Match-54-SH-vs-RCB IPL-Match-55-CSK-vs-DC IPL-Match-56-MI-vs-KKR IPL-Match-57-LSG-vs-GT IPL-Match-58-RR-vs-DC IPL-Match-59-CSK-vs-MI IPL-Match-60-RCB-vs-PK IPL-Match-61-KKR-vs-SH IPL-Match-62-CSK-vs-GT IPL-Match-63-LSG-vs-RR IPL-Match-64-PK-vs-DC IPL-Match-65-MI-vs-SH IPL-Match-66-KKR-vs-LSG IPL-Match-67-RCB-vs-GT IPL-Match-68-RR-vs-CSK IPL-Match-69-MI-vs-DC IPL-Match-70-SH-vs-PK

Added on March 25, 2022 Uncategorized

25 March IPL 2022 Match Assets (FanArt)

IPL 2022 Match assets to use in your site! Complementary assets made as FanArt by the CricketData team designers – you can download and use these as you need. The images are 1280×600 pixels and fully optimized for web/app use. All match banners will be available once the remaining matches are declared. Set II of the assets are available here – https://cricketdata.org/26-march-ipl-2022-matches-48-70/ IPL-Match-1-CSK-vs-KKR IPL-Match-2-DC-vs-MI IPL-Match-3-PK-vs-RCB IPL-Match-4-GT-vs-LSG IPL-Match-5-SH-vs-RR IPL-Match-6-RCB-vs-KKR IPL-Match-7-LSG-vs-CSK IPL-Match-8-KKR-vs-PK IPL-Match-9-MI-vs-RR IPL-Match-10-GT-vs-DC IPL-Match-11-CSK-vs-PK IPL-Match-12-SH-vs-LSG IPL-Match-13-RR-vs-RCB IPL-Match-14-KKR-vs-MI IPL-Match-15-LSG-vs-DC IPL-Match-16-PK-vs-GT IPL-Match-17-CSK-vs-SH IPL-Match-18-RCB-vs-MI IPL-Match-19-KKR-vs-DC IPL-Match-20-RR-vs-LSG IPL-Match-21-SH-vs-GT IPL-Match-22-CSK-vs-RCB IPL-Match-23-MI-vs-PK IPL-Match-24-RR-vs-GT IPL-Match-25-SH-vs-KKR IPL-Match-26-MI-vs-LSG IPL-Match-27-DC-vs-RCB IPL-Match-28-PK-vs-SH IPL-Match-29-GT-vs-CSK IPL-Match-30-RR-vs-KKR IPL-Match-31-LSG-vs-RCB IPL-Match-32-DC-vs-PK IPL-Match-33-MI-vs-CSK IPL-Match-34-DC-vs-RR IPL-Match-35-KKR-vs-GT

Added on March 13, 2022 Uncategorized

Some frequently asked questions about the Cricket Data API and CricAPI

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about the Cricket Live Scores API Will buying different pricing tiered plans have different features? The difference between Lifetime Free and Paid plans is the number of requests you are allowed to make to fetch Match, Score, Series, etc data. You will have access to all of the Cricket Data API’s features from the Lifetime Free plan. The data is the same – but how frequently you can invoke the API will change. There is a Daily Quota concept and not Hourly or Monthly. Can we use the cricket live scores API to get photographs of the players? Not yet, because we are still working on this. Right now you can get player details but not […]