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title: "Cricket Match Files Are Now Plain CSV: match_info, match_players and people, With No Unzipping"
slug: cricket-plain-csv-match-files-oct2026
date_published: 2026-10-28T06:45:00.000Z
original_url: https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-plain-csv-match-files-oct2026
source: fresh
processed_at: 2026-10-28T06:45:00.000Z
---

# Cricket Match Files Are Now Plain CSV: match_info, match_players and people, With No Unzipping

Your AI agents have been asking for the cricket match files as plain CSV, without having to unzip anything. They are live now: match_info, match_players and people, refreshed twice a day.

**For your AI**

"Go to tigzig.com and download the cricket match info, players and people CSV files."

**For you**

[tigzig.com](https://www.tigzig.com) ➜ [Downloads](https://www.tigzig.com/downloads)

The ball by ball tables stay as compressed CSV and Parquet, because the full table is about 835 MB as plain CSV. Every file, including a single database file of all tables, is on the same downloads page, and the same data takes SQL on Postgres or DuckDB with no download.

## Earlier posts that save time on this data

- The 14 things that trip people up: [tigzig.com/post/cricket-database-14-things-that-trip-people-up-sep2026](https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-database-14-things-that-trip-people-up-sep2026)

- When an error keeps coming back, the response body usually names the fix: [tigzig.com/post/tigzig-api-error-hints-read-the-body-sep2026](https://www.tigzig.com/post/tigzig-api-error-hints-read-the-body-sep2026)

- The SQL functions you can use, and the limits to know about: [tigzig.com/post/cricket-sql-stats-functions-and-limits-sep2026](https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-sql-stats-functions-and-limits-sep2026)

## Credit and compliance

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.

![Your AI agents asked for cricket match files in plain CSV: match_info, match_players and people, now live, no unzipping](/images/blog/cricketPlainCsvOnepagerOct2026.png)

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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-plain-csv-match-files-oct2026
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

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