Reporting an error
The whole proposition of this site is that the arithmetic can be checked, so a wrong number matters more here than it would elsewhere. If you find one, please say so.
The most useful report contains three things:
- The page URL.
- The figure you believe is wrong, quoted exactly as it appears.
- What you believe it should be, and where you got that from.
You do not need all three. A message saying “this number looks wrong” with a link is still worth sending.
Corrections policy
Reported errors are checked against the underlying data rather than against another website. Most figures here are computed by scripts in a public repository, so a wrong number usually means either a bug in a script or a problem in the source feed, and both are fixable at the root rather than by editing a page.
Where a correction changes a published figure materially, the page is corrected and the change is noted. Where an error turns out to be a coverage limit rather than a mistake — the ball-by-ball archive begins in 2001 for Tests, so earlier careers are incomplete — the page is made clearer about that limit instead. Those limits are set out in full on the about page.
Identity errors are the most common real fault. Two cricketers who share a surname and a first initial are genuinely hard to tell apart in a data feed, and when the resolver gets it wrong one player’s record lands on another’s page. Those reports are especially welcome.
Other reasons to write
- Questions about how a figure was calculated. The method is on about, but ask if it is not clear.
- A player missing from the directory.
- Anything broken — a page that will not load, a table that will not scroll.
- Requests to use the data. The short answer is usually yes, with attribution.
What this site is not
CricketTaken is independent. It is not affiliated with the ICC, the BCCI, Cricket Australia, the ECB, any other board, any league, any franchise, any broadcaster or any ground. Nothing sent here reaches a player, a team or a tournament, and no tickets, trials or accreditation can be arranged through this address.