Cricbuzz Scraper

Pull live cricket data from Cricbuzz at scale — live, recent, and upcoming matches, series schedules, ball-accurate batting and bowling scorecards, player profiles with career stats, and cricket news, all in one structured dataset. Built for fantasy-cricket app builders, sports-data analysts, and cricket media and betting teams who need clean, structured live scores and match detail without copy-pasting from Cricbuzz page by page.

Why This Scraper?

• Five data types in one actor — matches, series schedules, full scorecards, player profiles, and news. Competitors stop at match lists; this pulls the whole cricket stack from a single run.
• Complete batting and bowling scorecards — every batter's runs, balls, fours, sixes, strike rate, and dismissal, plus every bowler's overs, maidens, runs conceded, wickets, and economy, for all innings of a match (up to 4 for a Test).
• Three match states, four categories — live in-progress, recently completed, or upcoming fixtures across International, League (IPL, BBL, and more), Domestic, and Women's cricket.
• Five format filters — narrow to T20, ODI, Test, T10, or Other, or leave open to capture every format in one pass.
• Player profiles with resolved bios and career stats — full name, country, role, batting and bowling style, birth date and place, teams, ICC rankings, and format-by-format batting and bowling career records.
• Cricket news feed, six fields per story — headline, intro, category, lead image, article URL, and a story link for every item in the news feed. Scrape individual article URLs to also pull the full byline and an ISO publish date.
• Paste any Cricbuzz link — drop in a scorecard, series, player, or news URL and the right structured record is detected and returned automatically. No URL formatting to learn.
• One clean dataset, six record types — a recordType field separates matches, series, batting rows, bowling rows, players, and news, so downstream tools can split them without guesswork.

Use Cases

Fantasy Sports

• Build fantasy scoring engines from live per-innings batting and bowling lines
• Rank players by recent strike rate, economy, and wicket-taking form
• Auto-populate contest player pools from upcoming fixture lists
• Track live match state to lock and settle fantasy lineups

Sports Analytics

• Model batter and bowler performance across formats and conditions
• Compare career batting and bowling records between players
• Build innings-by-innings datasets for team and venue analysis
• Track series schedules to plan data pulls around fixture calendars

Media & Journalism

• Feed live scorecards into match-report and live-blog templates
• Pull cricket news with bylines and publish dates for content aggregation
• Assemble player fact-files from bios, teams, and career stats
• Monitor recent results across International, Domestic, and Women's cricket

Betting & Odds Research

• Track live match state and running scores for in-play models
• Backtest against completed-match scorecards and results
• Monitor upcoming fixtures by format and category for market setup
• Analyze player form to inform prop and top-scorer markets

App & Product Development

• Power cricket score widgets and mobile apps with fresh match data
• Enrich existing sports databases with structured Cricbuzz records
• Build player-comparison and stats-lookup features
• Schedule recurring pulls to keep a live-scores backend current

Getting Started

Live International Matches

The simplest run — live international games, no configuration needed:

{
    "dataType": "matches",
    "matchStatus": "live",
    "maxResults": 50
}

Recent Matches With Full Scorecards

Recently completed matches, each enriched with full batting and bowling cards:

{
    "dataType": "matches",
    "matchStatus": "recent",
    "matchCategory": "international",
    "matchFormat": ["t20", "odi"],
    "includeScorecard": true,
    "maxResults": 20
}

Players, News, and Direct URLs

Paste Cricbuzz links directly — scorecards, player profiles, series, or news articles are auto-detected:

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scorecard/152416" },
        { "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/profiles/1413/virat-kohli" },
        { "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/latest-news" }
    ]
}

Cricket News Feed

{
    "dataType": "news",
    "maxResults": 100
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
dataType	select	Matches (live / recent / upcoming)	The kind of cricket data to pull: Matches, Series schedule, Scorecards (from match URLs), Player profiles (from player URLs), or News articles.
matchStatus	select	Live matches	For the Matches option: Live matches, Recent (completed), or Upcoming fixtures.
matchCategory	select	International	Which cricket category to cover: International, League (IPL, BBL, etc.), Domestic, or Women's. Applies to Matches and Series schedule.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
matchFormat	select[]	[] (all)	Only keep matches in these formats: T20, ODI, Test, T10, Other. Leave empty to include every format.

Direct URLs

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	URL[]	[]	Paste Cricbuzz URLs — scorecard, series, player, or news pages. The right data is detected automatically from each link. Required for the Scorecards and Player profiles options.

Enrichment & Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeScorecard	boolean	false	With the Matches option, also pull each match's full batting and bowling scorecard. Adds detailed innings rows per match.
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum number of items to return (matches, series, players, or news), up to 5,000 per run. Scorecard rows for a fetched match are always included and do not count against this limit.

Output

Every record carries a recordType field. Match, series, player, and news records are primary results; batting and bowling rows are per-innings children of a match scorecard.

Match (recordType: "match")

{
    "recordType": "match",
    "matchId": "152416",
    "seriesId": "8676",
    "seriesName": "Australia tour of India, 2024",
    "matchDesc": "3rd Test",
    "matchFormat": "TEST",
    "matchCategory": "international",
    "state": "Complete",
    "status": "India won by 6 wickets",
    "team1": "India",
    "team1ShortName": "IND",
    "team2": "Australia",
    "team2ShortName": "AUS",
    "team1Score": "296 & 187-4 (48.3 ov)",
    "team2Score": "263 & 218 (85.1 ov)",
    "venue": "M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru",
    "startDate": "2024-03-01T04:00:00+00:00",
    "endDate": "2024-03-05T11:30:00+00:00",
    "tossResult": "Australia won the toss and chose to bat",
    "result": "India won by 6 wickets",
    "matchUrl": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scorecard/152416",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-04T14:30:00+00:00"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "match"
matchId	string	Cricbuzz match identifier
seriesId / seriesName	string	Parent series id and name
matchDesc	string	Match label, e.g. "3rd Test", "Final"
matchFormat	string	T20, ODI, TEST, T10, or OTHER
matchCategory	string	international, league, domestic, or women
state	string	Preview, In Progress, Complete, Abandoned
status	string	Human-readable status or result line
team1 / team2	string	Team names
team1ShortName / team2ShortName	string	Team short codes
team1Score / team2Score	string	Innings score summary (null if not started)
venue	string	Ground and city
startDate / endDate	string	ISO 8601 timestamps (nullable)
tossResult	string	Toss outcome text (nullable)
result	string	Winner or result text (nullable)
matchUrl	string	Canonical match URL
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of extraction

Batting Row (recordType: "inningsBatting")

Child rows of a scorecard — one per batter, per innings.

{
    "recordType": "inningsBatting",
    "matchId": "152416",
    "inningsNumber": 1,
    "battingTeam": "India",
    "batsmanName": "Rohit Sharma",
    "runs": 52,
    "balls": 44,
    "fours": 6,
    "sixes": 2,
    "strikeRate": 118.18,
    "dismissal": "c Smith b Cummins"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "inningsBatting"
matchId	string	Parent match id
inningsNumber	number	Innings number (1–4)
battingTeam	string	Team batting this innings
batsmanName	string	Batter name
runs / balls / fours / sixes	number	Batting line
strikeRate	number	Strike rate
dismissal	string	How out (null when not out)

Bowling Row (recordType: "inningsBowling")

Child rows of a scorecard — one per bowler, per innings.

{
    "recordType": "inningsBowling",
    "matchId": "152416",
    "inningsNumber": 1,
    "bowlingTeam": "Australia",
    "bowlerName": "Pat Cummins",
    "overs": 18.2,
    "maidens": 4,
    "runsConceded": 61,
    "wickets": 3,
    "economy": 3.32
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "inningsBowling"
matchId	string	Parent match id
inningsNumber	number	Innings number (1–4)
bowlingTeam	string	Team bowling this innings
bowlerName	string	Bowler name
overs	number	Overs bowled
maidens / runsConceded / wickets	number	Bowling line
economy	number	Economy rate

Series (recordType: "series")

{
    "recordType": "series",
    "seriesId": "8676",
    "seriesName": "Australia tour of India, 2024",
    "matchCategory": "international",
    "startDate": "2024-02-09T04:00:00+00:00",
    "endDate": "2024-03-05T11:30:00+00:00",
    "matchCount": 5,
    "seriesUrl": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-series/8676",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-04T14:30:00+00:00"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "series"
seriesId / seriesName	string	Series id and name
matchCategory	string	international, league, domestic, or women
startDate / endDate	string	ISO 8601 span of the series (nullable)
matchCount	number	Number of matches in the series (nullable)
seriesUrl	string	Canonical series URL
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of extraction

Player (recordType: "player")

{
    "recordType": "player",
    "playerId": "1413",
    "name": "Virat Kohli",
    "fullName": "Virat Kohli",
    "country": "India",
    "role": "Batsman",
    "battingStyle": "Right-hand bat",
    "bowlingStyle": "Right-arm medium",
    "birthDate": "Nov 05, 1988",
    "birthPlace": "Delhi",
    "teams": ["India", "Royal Challengers Bengaluru", "India U19"],
    "bio": "Virat Kohli is a modern-day great whose consistency across formats...",
    "rankings": { "bat": { "testBestRank": "1", "odiBestRank": "1" } },
    "battingStats": { "Test": { "matches": "113", "runs": "8848", "avg": "49.15" } },
    "bowlingStats": { "Test": { "wickets": "0" } },
    "profileUrl": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/profiles/1413/virat-kohli",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-04T14:30:00+00:00"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "player"
playerId	string	Cricbuzz player id
name / fullName	string	Display name and full name
country	string	Country / international team
role	string	Batsman, Bowler, All-rounder, or WK-Batsman
battingStyle / bowlingStyle	string	Style descriptors (nullable)
birthDate / birthPlace	string	Date and place of birth (nullable)
teams	string[]	Teams the player has represented
bio	string	Full profile bio text (nullable)
rankings	object	Current ICC rankings by format (nullable)
battingStats / bowlingStats	object	Career records by format
profileUrl	string	Canonical profile URL
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of extraction

News (recordType: "news")

Example of a row from the news feed (dataType: "news"). On the feed, author is empty and publishedAt is a relative time. Scrape an individual article URL and both fill in with the full byline and an ISO date.

{
    "recordType": "news",
    "newsId": "128745",
    "title": "India seal series with clinical Test win",
    "intro": "A composed fourth-innings chase gave India the series 3-1...",
    "category": "News",
    "author": null,
    "publishedAt": "1d ago",
    "imageUrl": "https://static.cricbuzz.com/a/img/v1/i1/c128745/i.jpg",
    "newsUrl": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/128745",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-04T14:30:00+00:00"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "news"
newsId	string	Article id
title	string	Headline
intro	string	Summary / standfirst (nullable)
category	string	News category (nullable)
author	string	Byline. Populated when you scrape an individual article URL; empty on the news feed
publishedAt	string	Publish date. ISO 8601 when you scrape an individual article URL; a relative time (e.g. "1d ago") on the news feed
imageUrl	string	Lead image URL (nullable)
newsUrl	string	Article URL
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of extraction

Tips for Best Results

• Start small, then scale — set maxResults to 10–20 on your first run to confirm the data matches your needs before pulling hundreds of items.
• Enable scorecards only for the matches you need — each match with includeScorecard on adds roughly 35–50 detailed batting and bowling rows (a full Test can exceed that). Leave it off for fast, lightweight match lists.
• Use Recent for settled results — pick matchStatus: "recent" when you want final scores and complete scorecards; Live matches are still in progress and their cards fill in over time.
• Combine format filters — pass multiple formats (e.g. ["t20", "odi"]) to capture several limited-overs formats in a single run while excluding Tests.
• Paste URLs for pinpoint pulls — for a specific scorecard or player, drop the Cricbuzz URL into Direct URLs rather than scanning a full list; it is faster and exact.
• Split records by recordType downstream — filter on recordType to route matches, scorecards, players, and news into separate tables or sheets.
• Match categories mirror Cricbuzz's own tabs — International, League, Domestic, and Women's map directly to the site's sections, so you get the same coverage you would browsing by hand.

Pricing

From $2.50 per 1,000 results — the primary rate for each match, series, player, or news record, undercutting comparable cricket data actors. Scorecard rows are billed separately and only when you switch them on.

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing with two event types. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee. Apify loyalty-tier discounts (Bronze, Silver, Gold) apply automatically as you scale.

Event	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Record (match / series / player / news) — per 1,000	$3.00	$2.80	$2.65	$2.50
Scorecard row (batting / bowling line) — per 1,000	$0.48	$0.45	$0.42	$0.40

Scorecard rows are only produced when Include full scorecards is enabled (off by default), so a plain match, series, player, or news run is billed purely at the Record rate.

What You'd Pay (Gold tier)

Run	Records	Scorecard rows	Cost
1,000 matches, no scorecards	1,000	0	$2.50
100 matches with scorecards	100	~3,500	~$1.65
10,000 news articles	10,000	0	$25.00

A small fixed start fee ($0.005 per GB per run) applies once per run. Platform fees for storage and data transfer depend on your Apify plan.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate cricket research, analytics, media, and app development. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Cricbuzz's Terms of Service. Extract only publicly available data, respect rate limits, and do not use collected data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.