Cricket statistics you can check.

What this site is

CricketTaken is an independent cricket reference. It holds 999 player profiles, 15 IPL franchises across 19 seasons and 1,243 matches, 14 Big Bash seasons covering 618 matches, 72 Ashes series spanning 1882/83 to 2021/22, and 7 other competitions with 73 editions between them. Alongside the records sit 1,581 written pages — roughly 4.38 million words — explaining how the game, its laws and its competitions actually work.

Those numbers are counted from the data files the site is built from, at build time. They are not typed into this paragraph by hand, which is why they cannot quietly become untrue.

There is no login, no paywall and no user account. The site is a set of static pages on a content delivery network, which is why it loads quickly and costs very little to keep online.

What it does that a scorecard database does not

A statistics database will tell you that a player averaged 40.42. It will not tell you which deliveries it counted to get there, whether it charged the bowler for the leg byes, whether it credited the run out to anybody, or which years of the career it simply does not hold. Those decisions are where two sites’ numbers diverge, and almost nobody publishes them.

This site publishes all of them. The sources and methodology page states every rule: that a wide is not a ball faced, that a no ball is; that byes and leg byes are not charged to the bowler while wides and no balls are; that six kinds of dismissal are credited to a bowler and the rest are not; that an average is runs over dismissals and is left blank rather than shown as infinite. Where a rule creates a known distortion — a four that was run rather than struck to the rope is still counted as a four — the page says so instead of hoping nobody notices.

That is the actual product. Not more numbers than anyone else has, but numbers with their working attached.

Who is responsible for it

CricketTaken is independently published and independently funded. It is not owned by, paid by or editorially directed by a cricket board, a league, a franchise, a broadcaster or a statistics supplier. Editorial responsibility for every page sits with the publication, and the person answerable for it reads the address published on the contact page.

The work is deliberately narrow: cricket records, player pages, competition histories and explainers that can be checked against source data. CricketTaken is not a news desk, a betting service, a fantasy platform, a tipping site or an official archive, and it does not try to be.

If a page is wrong, unclear or incomplete, the responsibility is here. The corrections page explains how to report it and what happens next, and the editorial policy sets out the standards the site holds itself to.

How the numbers are made

No career record exists anywhere as a career record. What exists is a few million individual deliveries — this bowler, to this batter, these runs, this dismissal. Everything on this site is built up from those fragments by code written for it, one ball at a time.

The work is in the decisions, not the addition. Whether a wide counts as a ball faced. Whether a bowler is charged for leg byes. Which of the ten ways to get out put a wicket next to a bowler’s name. What an average means when nobody has been dismissed. Which of two cricketers sharing a surname and an initial a delivery belongs to. Every one of those was decided here, and every one is written down on sources and methodology — because a figure without its rules is an assertion, not a fact.

The deliveries themselves come from Cricsheet, an open ball-by-ball archive licensed under Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0, which permits work of this kind provided the source is credited. It is credited here and on every page that rests on it, because it is owed.

Nothing on this site is copied from a commercial statistics provider or from another website. That is what makes the figures checkable: anyone can take the same open source, apply the rules published here, and get the same answer.

Big Bash figures run through the same pipeline. Ashes career figures are the exception — they come from published Test match records rather than ball-by-ball data, because the series runs back to 1882/83, more than a century before any ball-by-ball archive begins, and they are labelled wherever they appear. Photographs and biographical fields such as date of birth and playing style come from a third-party player feed.

What this site does not claim

Cricket data has gaps. Concealing them would be easy and would make every other number here less trustworthy. These are the ones that affect this site:

• Careers that began before 2001. The ball-by-ball archive starts in 2001 for Test cricket and 2002 for One Day Internationals. Players whose careers began earlier are only partly covered. Their pages label the shortfall and their figures are excluded from leaderboards, so a fragment of a career is never presented as a career total. Of the 40 hand-checked international profiles, 18 carry that label.
• Afghanistan cricket. The source archive withholds 370 matches — those involving Afghanistan, or played in the Afghanistan Premier League — as a matter of its own published policy. They cannot be computed here, and the affected pages say so.
• Men’s and women’s cricket. The source archives hold both. The pipeline separates them on the gender field in each match file and never adds them together — which also prevents two players who share a name across the two games from being merged into one career.
• Players without statistics. The directory indexes 17,429 names; 999 have a profile page. A name earns a page when an archive holds a completed record for it. Fewer pages with something on them is better than 16,430 with nothing.
• Identity, where a name is shared. Statistics are matched to a stable player identifier and are reliable. Biographical details are matched by name, and that occasionally lands on the wrong cricketer. Where the conflict is detected the biographical field is withheld rather than shown.

How the written pages are made

Written articles are researched against primary documents — the Laws of Cricket for a question of law, a board’s own publication for a question of governance, a competition’s own regulations for its format — and are checked against the data on this site before publication. Sources are listed on the page.

AI tools are used for drafting support, editing and code, and every page is reviewed by a person before it is published. No statistic on this site is produced by a language model. The editorial policy states exactly where the line is drawn and what this site will not publish.

Independence and funding

The site is intended to be funded by advertising, and advertising technology is present on these pages. No advertiser has any influence over editorial content, no page is sponsored, no ranking or list contains paid placement, and no link here has been sold.

What is loaded on these pages, and what it does with data, is set out in the privacy policy. The terms of use explain how the figures may be quoted and where the limits of the data sit.

Attribution

Statistics derived from Cricsheet are used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0, which requires attribution to Cricsheet — given on every page that uses them. Photographs appear only where their licence permits, with the credit and licence printed beneath the image. Team and competition names are the property of their owners and are used descriptively. No official logo, kit imagery or broadcast footage appears anywhere on this site.