Who is responsible
CricketTaken is independently published. It is not owned by, funded 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 can be reached at [email protected] — the same address that handles corrections.
Where an individual author has been recorded for a page, that name appears on the page and in its structured data. Where no individual is named, the publication carries the byline. This site does not put a name on a page that a reader cannot also see, and it does not invent one to fill a byline.
What gets published
A page is written when it answers a question the site can answer better than a scorecard database can, and it is not written when it cannot. In practice that means three kinds of page and no others:
- Computed records. Figures derived from ball-by-ball data by the rules set out in sources and methodology. Their value is that the arithmetic is reproducible.
- Explanations. How a law works, how a tournament is structured, why a pitch behaves as it does. Their value is that they save a reader from assembling the answer from six places.
- Accounts of things that happened. Tournament histories, series narratives, careers. Their value is the ordering and the context, not the bare facts.
A page is not written because a search phrase exists. If a proposed page would largely repeat one that already exists with a different noun in the title, the correct outcome is to improve the existing page, and that is what happens.
How facts are checked
Statistics are checked by recomputation, not by comparison. When a figure looks wrong, the fix is to re-run the calculation over the source deliveries, because a number that agrees with another website is not thereby correct — it may only mean two sites made the same assumption.
Written claims are checked against primary documents wherever a primary document exists: the Laws of Cricket for a matter of law, an international or national board’s own publication for a matter of governance or structure, a competition’s own regulations for its format. Where a page rests on such a document, it is listed in that page’s sources.
Another publisher’s article is not treated as a source for a fact that has a primary source. It is at best evidence that somebody else believes the same thing.
Statistics and prose are kept apart
A measurement and an interpretation are different claims and are written differently. “His strike rate rose from 128 to 141 between those two seasons” is arithmetic and is either right or wrong. “He was moved up the order and started attacking the powerplay” is an interpretation of why, and is written as one.
No opinion is dressed as a statistic on this site, and no ranking is presented as measured when it is a judgement. Where a page ranks or recommends, it says what the ranking is based on.
How AI is and is not used
This is stated plainly because a vague answer here is worth nothing. AI tools are used in producing this site: for drafting assistance, for editing and phrasing, for writing and reviewing the code that computes the statistics, and for checking prose for errors. That work is reviewed by a person before it is published.
The limits are firm. No statistic on this site is generated by a language model — every figure comes from arithmetic over ball-by-ball records, and a model is never asked what a player’s average is. No page is published without a person reading it. No fabricated quotation, source, credential or first-hand experience appears anywhere, and no page claims a personal experience the publisher has not had.
Where a page describes what a ground is like or how a competition feels to follow, it is written from documented evidence rather than from an implied visit that did not happen.
Corrections
Errors are corrected rather than quietly removed. Because most figures here are computed rather than typed, a wrong number usually indicates a fault in a rule or in the source data, and fixing it at that level corrects every page the error touched at once. The full process, and what makes a report useful, is on the corrections page.
Updating old pages
Pages are revisited when the underlying data changes, when a competition’s structure changes, or when a reader shows that something is wrong. The date shown on a page is the date of the change it describes: a page is not restamped with today’s date because the site was rebuilt, and a rebuild is not an update.
This matters more than it sounds. A false “updated today” on 457 pages would make every date on the site worthless, including the ones that mean something.
Advertising and editorial independence
The site is intended to be funded by advertising. No advertiser has any say in what is written, no page is sponsored, no placement in any list or ranking is paid for, and no link on this site has been sold. If that ever changes, the page it affects will say so on the page itself, not in a policy nobody reads.
Advertising is kept visually and structurally separate from editorial content: an advertisement is never styled as a player card, a related article, a navigation control or a quiz answer. What is loaded, and what it does with data, is set out in the privacy policy.
Conflicts of interest
CricketTaken has no commercial relationship with any cricket board, league, franchise, agency, broadcaster, betting operator or fantasy platform. It does not accept payment for coverage, does not publish guest posts, and does not accept link-placement offers. Nothing on this site is affiliate-monetised.
This site does not carry betting content, odds, tips or predictions, and does not link to betting operators.
Attribution and other people’s work
Statistics derived from Cricsheet are used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0 and attributed wherever they appear. Photographs are used only where their licence permits it, and the credit and licence the photographer’s terms require are printed under the image. Written content on this site is original: nothing is copied from another publisher, and nothing is a rewrite of another publisher’s article.
Team, competition and player names are used descriptively, as any reference work uses them. No official logo, kit imagery or broadcast footage appears anywhere on this site.