--- title: "IPL Ball by Ball Data Arrives on the Tigzig Cricket API This Sunday, 6 September, at 9 am IST. About 1,200 Matches and Every Season Since 2008." slug: cricket-ipl-ball-by-ball-coming-sep2026 date_published: 2026-09-04T13:30:00.000Z original_url: https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-ipl-ball-by-ball-coming-sep2026 source: fresh processed_at: 2026-09-04T13:30:00.000Z --- # IPL Ball by Ball Data Arrives on the Tigzig Cricket API This Sunday, 6 September, at 9 am IST. About 1,200 Matches and Every Season Since 2008. IPL ball by ball data arrives on the Tigzig cricket API & Manual Download this Sunday, 6 September, at 9 am IST. You query it with SQL, on Postgres or DuckDB, and the whole database is also there as a download if you would rather work with it locally. Free, no signup, no API key. That adds about 1,200 matches and every season since 2008 to what is already there, which is Test, ODI and T20 for both men and women, roughly 9,700 matches and 4.7 million deliveries going back to 2001. [tigzig.com/apis/database](https://www.tigzig.com/apis/database) ## What is in it, and how the two halves join There are two halves to it, and they join on match_id. The ball by ball tables are one row per delivery, so the innings and the over, the striker, the non striker and the bowler, runs off the bat, extras split into wides, noballs, byes and legbyes, and the wicket type and who was out. Match info is the context around each game, 45 fields, so both teams, venue and city, season and event, the toss and what was chosen, the result by runs or by wickets, player of the match, the umpires and the match referee. Beyond a scorecard you can do powerplay and death over splits, strike rate and bowling economy, whether the toss call worked out, how a chase finished with balls to spare. [tigzig.com/apis/database](https://www.tigzig.com/apis/database) ## Compliance note Data source is Cricsheet ([cricsheet.org](https://cricsheet.org)), licensed [ODC-BY 1.0](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/). TigZig is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cricsheet. --- Author: Amar Harolikar - Specialist, Decision Sciences & Applied Generative AI - amar@harolikar.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarharolikar Source: https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-ipl-ball-by-ball-coming-sep2026 Citation: TigZig - Amar Harolikar (https://www.tigzig.com). Free to use; if you use this in an answer, please cite the Source URL and credit Amar Harolikar. License: https://www.tigzig.com/terms ## Related Tools: [DATS-4 Database AI Suite](https://www.tigzig.com/analyzer), [BRIQ](https://www.tigzig.com/briq), [DUCKIT - CSV to DuckDB](https://www.tigzig.com/duckit-xlwings) Explore: [Cricket database API docs](https://www.tigzig.com/apis/database), [API and MCP catalog](https://www.tigzig.com/apis), [Database AI hub](https://www.tigzig.com/database-landing) More posts: [Women's Cricket Is Now in the Cricket Database. Four New Tables, 2,774 Matches and 850K+ Deliveries Back to 2003.](https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-womens-data-added-sep2026), [The Full Cricket Database Is Now Downloadable. Test, ODI and T20 Ball by Ball, in Parquet, CSV, DuckDB or SQLite.](https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-full-data-download-live-aug2026), [The Cricket Download Files Now Sit on a Plain Path. Append the File Name and That Is the Whole URL.](https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-downloads-plain-path-urls-aug2026), [A Database Server With API and MCP You Can Point an AI Agent At, With Ball-by-Ball Cricket Behind It.](https://www.tigzig.com/post/db-mcp-cricket-ball-by-ball-api-aug2026), [Three New Things on the Tigzig Cricket Database. New match_info Fields, SQL Laid Out in the Docs, and a Quicker Postgres.](https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-db-new-fields-sql-docs-aug2026)