Database CricArcade

CricArcade is a games site that happens to sit on a large cricket archive, and the archive is public. None of it needs an account. Nothing here is paywalled, sampled or truncated behind a sign-up. The games read from these same files, which is the reason they are kept accurate: an error in a career record shows up as a player behaving strangely in a match.

Match archives

2,537 Test matches, from the first Test in 1877 through to March 2024, and 4,981 One Day Internationals, from 1971 to August 2026. Each scorecard carries both innings in full: batters with how they were dismissed and off how many balls, bowlers with their overs, maidens, runs and wickets, the extras, the partnerships and the fall of wickets.

Every match is a real match. There are no simulated results mixed in, and no composite matches assembled from fragments. Where a figure could not be established from the source scorecards it is left out rather than estimated, which is why an occasional older match shows a bowling column and not a batting one.

Player records

Career records for 3,271 Test cricketers and 3,151 ODI cricketers, each built from that player's own matches in the archive above rather than typed in from a summary table. A player page shows the career aggregate, the shape of it season by season, the grounds they played on and the matches themselves.

On the T20 side, 819 IPL players and 526 BBL players. The IPL records go down to ball-by-ball detail, so a batter's record separates what they did against pace from what they did against spin, and in which phase of the innings.

Venues

Every groundthat has staged a Test or an ODI in the archive, with the two formats merged into one page per venue rather than split across two. That merge is the point: a ground's character is a single thing, and seeing 151 Test grounds and 262 ODI grounds as one list makes the overlap visible. Each page carries what has historically happened there, first innings totals, how results have divided, and which sides have played there most.

T20 auctions and franchises

19 IPL auctions from 2008 to 2026, 3,836 lots in total, listed season by season with who bought whom and for how much. Alongside them, a written history of each franchise, including the ones that no longer exist.

The auction data is the part that most rewards browsing. A single season reads as a market: what a role was worth that year, which franchise was buying early, and which player was the one everybody wanted.

Tournaments

All 13men's Cricket World Cups from 1975 to 2023, each with its squads, its group stage, its knockouts and how the tournament actually turned.

How to use it

There are three ways in, and they suit different questions. If you know the player, start at a player index and search the name. If you know roughly when, start at an archive and work from the year. If you know where, start at the venue list: a ground page is often the fastest route to a match whose date you cannot remember.

Everything cross-links. A scorecard links every player in it; a player page links every match they appear in; a venue page links both. Nothing is more than a couple of steps from anything else, which is deliberate, because the useful questions are usually the second and third ones rather than the first.

What it does not cover