ESPNcricinfo Cricket Stats Scraper

Extract cricket statistics and records from ESPNcricinfo — the definitive cricket database. Search players, pull career stats, team records, venue profiles, and full match scorecards, as clean structured JSON/CSV/Excel.

Built for fantasy cricket, match previews, analytics, journalism, betting models, and research — anywhere you need cricket data in a spreadsheet or database instead of a web page.

What it does

Pick one of five modes and the Actor returns that data:

Mode	Give it	You get
🔎 Search players	player names	every matching player + their ESPNcricinfo player ID
🏏 Player stats	player IDs	career batting and bowling, per format
🛡️ Team stats	team names (or none)	each team's results record (won/lost/drawn), per format
🏟️ Venue stats	ground names (or none)	each ground's profile (matches, scoring conditions, highest/lowest totals)
📋 Match scorecard	match IDs	full scorecard — both innings, batting and bowling cards

The player ID from Search players is the key for Player stats; the match ID (the number in any scorecard URL) drives Match scorecard.

Supported formats: Test, ODI, T20I, and IPL.

Features

• 🌍 Complete coverage — every international player and team, IPL franchises, and grounds worldwide, with decades of records.
• 🏏 Both disciplines — player stats merge batting and bowling into one row per format; scorecards include full batting and bowling cards.
• 📅 Format-aware — Test / ODI / T20I / IPL, each returned separately so you can compare a player or venue across formats.
• 🧩 Joinable IDs — every player carries a stable cricinfo ID, every team and ground an ID, so results link cleanly across runs.
• 🛡️ Resilient runs — one bad name/ID/match is skipped with a warning; the run finishes and still returns everything else.
• 🌐 Proxy support — Apify Proxy supported for reliable runs.

Input

Set mode, then fill the field(s) that mode uses:

Field	Used by	Description
mode	all	searchPlayers, playerStats, teamStats, venueStats, or matchScorecard.
playerNames	searchPlayers	Names/partial names, e.g. ["Sachin Tendulkar", "Kohli"].
maxResultsPerName	searchPlayers	Cap matches per name (default 50).
playerIds	playerStats	Cricinfo player IDs, e.g. ["253802"] (from Search players).
teams	teamStats	Team names; international by name, IPL by name/abbrev ("RCB"). Empty = all teams.
venues	venueStats	Ground names, e.g. ["Eden Gardens"]. Empty = busiest grounds.
maxVenuePages	venueStats	Pages (~50 grounds each) to scan for named venues (default 10).
matchIds	matchScorecard	Match IDs, e.g. ["1144530"] (the number in a scorecard URL).
formats	player/team/venue stats	Any of test, odi, t20i, ipl (default: all four).
proxyConfiguration	all	Proxy settings.

Example inputs

Search players → get IDs

{ "mode": "searchPlayers", "playerNames": ["Sachin Tendulkar", "Kohli"] }

Player career stats

{ "mode": "playerStats", "playerIds": ["253802", "35320"], "formats": ["test", "odi", "t20i", "ipl"] }

Team records

{ "mode": "teamStats", "teams": ["India", "Australia"], "formats": ["test", "odi"] }

Venue profiles

{ "mode": "venueStats", "venues": ["Eden Gardens", "Wankhede"], "formats": ["test", "ipl"] }

Match scorecard

{ "mode": "matchScorecard", "matchIds": ["1144530"] }

Example output

Search players (one row per matched player)

{
    "searchTerm": "Kohli",
    "playerId": "253802",
    "name": "Virat Kohli",
    "country": "India",
    "bornYear": 1988,
    "profileUrl": "https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/virat-kohli-253802",
    "statsUrl": "https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/253802.html"
}

Player stats (one row per player × format)

{
    "playerId": "253802",
    "playerName": "Virat Kohli",
    "format": "ODI",
    "span": "2008-2026",
    "matches": 311,
    "innings": 299,
    "runs": 14797,
    "battingAverage": 58.71,
    "battingStrikeRate": 93.82,
    "hundreds": 54,
    "fifties": 77,
    "highScore": "183",
    "wickets": 5,
    "bestBowling": "1/13",
    "economy": 6.16
}

Team stats (one row per team × format)

{
    "teamId": "6",
    "teamName": "India",
    "format": "Test",
    "span": "1932-2026",
    "matches": 599,
    "won": 186,
    "lost": 188,
    "drawn": 224,
    "winLossRatio": 0.989
}

Venue stats (one row per venue × format)

{
    "groundId": "56441",
    "groundName": "Melbourne Cricket Ground",
    "format": "Test",
    "span": "1877-2025",
    "matches": 118,
    "battingAverage": 29.86,
    "runsPerOver": 2.76,
    "highestTotal": "624",
    "lowestTotal": "36"
}

Match scorecard (one nested record per match)

{
    "matchId": "1144530",
    "name": "England v New Zealand",
    "description": "Final",
    "format": "ODI",
    "venue": "Lord's, London",
    "result": "England won the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup",
    "toss": "New Zealand , elected to bat first",
    "teams": ["England", "New Zealand"],
    "innings": [
        {
            "inningsNumber": 1,
            "battingTeam": "New Zealand",
            "runs": 241,
            "wickets": 8,
            "overs": 50.0,
            "batting": [
                { "name": "Henry Nicholls", "playerId": "539511", "runs": 55, "balls": 77, "fours": 4, "sixes": 0, "strikeRate": 71.42, "notOut": false, "howOut": "bowled" }
            ],
            "bowling": [
                { "name": "Chris Woakes", "playerId": "247235", "overs": "9", "maidens": 0, "runs": 37, "wickets": 3, "economy": 4.11 }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Every field is available as a column when you export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

Good to know / limitations

• Two-step player lookup. Use Search players to find a player's ID, then feed that ID to Player stats. IDs are stable, so you can save and reuse them.
• Match IDs come from URLs. A match ID is the number in an ESPNcricinfo scorecard URL (e.g. .../full-scorecard pages).
• Team & venue records are aggregates. Team stats are each team's overall results record per format; venue stats are aggregated across all teams that played at the ground (so they describe the ground, not a single team there).
• Formats are returned separately. A player/team/venue is one row per format it has played; formats never played are simply omitted.
• Snapshots. Stats reflect ESPNcricinfo at run time and update as matches are played — treat results as a point-in-time snapshot.

Disclaimer

This tool fetches publicly visible cricket statistics from ESPNcricinfo on demand using your own runs and proxies. Statistics are factual records. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with ESPNcricinfo's Terms of Use and applicable laws.