Five Million Balls of Cricket, Available as a Database. Free to Use.
Published: September 27, 2026
Five million balls of cricket, available as a database. Free to use. Analyze it, setup scorecards, setup match finders, build tools and deploy your apps. Hit my database, download the whole thing, analyze offline or set up your own micro-service.
Kinds of questions you can answer
- Someone made XX runs off YY balls. I cannot place the game. Which match was it?
- How many balls were left when the chase was finished?
- How many wickets did each bowler take? A run out is not theirs.
- An innings fell apart in the last four overs. Remember a few hazy details, which match was it?
- Two openers put on a big stand. I remember the pair but not the date. Which matches were they?
Test, ODI, T20 and the IPL, men and women, refreshed twice a day. Run SQL on Postgres or DuckDB, connect your AI over MCP, or download the whole database.
Free, no signup, no API key.
For you: tigzig.com/apis/database
For your AI: db-mcp.tigzig.com
Credit and compliance
Data source is Cricsheet (cricsheet.org), licensed ODC-BY 1.0. TigZig is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cricsheet.
What is in it, in a bit more detail
Ball by ball is one row per delivery, with the striker, the bowler, runs, extras and how each wicket fell. Match info is one row per match with venue, toss, result and officials. The player master has every player with Cricinfo and other cross reference IDs, so you can join this to other cricket sources without matching on names.
The SQL runs on two engines, Postgres and DuckDB, with the same tables on both. The MCP server sits on the same host for AI clients that take connectors. Every table is also published as a file, and the whole database as one DuckDB or SQLite file.
Links
Fourteen things that trip people up on this database: tigzig.com/post/cricket-database-14-things-that-trip-people-up-sep2026
The stats functions you can use, and the two limits that are easy to hit: tigzig.com/post/cricket-sql-stats-functions-and-limits-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
The whole database as one download: tigzig.com/post/tigzig-whole-database-downloads-aug2026
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