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Cricket Widget: Live Scores, Scorecards, and Tournament Data | One Embed, Zero Maintenance

Mar. 26, 2026

A cricket widget embeds live scores, scorecards, and tournament data into any website with a single line of code no development required. Every time a big match goes live, the same thing happens. A reader lands on your page. They are looking for one thing like the live score, the latest result, what is happening right now. They scroll. They look around. Ten seconds pass. They don't find it. They open a new tab. Cricbuzz. ESPNcricinfo. Wherever. And they don't come back. You did the work. You wrote the preview, built the audience, ranked for the keyword. The reader was already on your page. You just didn't have the score. That is what the widget fixes. But here is the part most people don't talk about: keeping users on your page is only half the problem. The other half is showing them the right score when something unusual happens: a Super Over, a rain interruption, a Test match on day four. Most cricket widgets were built for one scenario: a match that is still going normally. Everything else breaks them. This widget handles all of it. Here is exactly what it shows and why it matters.

What Is a Cricket Widget?

A cricket widget is a ready-made block you embed once into your website or app. After that, it runs itself: pulling live match data, updating in real time, showing your users everything they need to follow the game. You don't write the data. You don't update it. It stays current on its own.

What's inside the Cricket Widget?

Live Scores

During a match, your users see exactly what they'd see on Cricbuzz: both teams, current score, overs, run rate, current partnership. The difference is they're seeing it on your site. The LIVE badge appears the moment the match starts. Updates happen ball by ball. No polling. No page refresh. No 30-second delay where your user wonders if the score is stale and opens another tab. Live match card showing scheduled match details

Live match card showing scheduled match details

Both teams with short codes and country badges
Current score: runs and wickets
Overs bowled and current run rate
Current batting partnership and bowler figures
LIVE badge: appears automatically when the match starts
Updates every delivery via real-time push

Match Results

The moment a game ends, the card switches. No blank screen, no frozen score. The final result appears cleanly: both innings, winning margin, one-line summary.

Final scores for both innings
Winning margin: runs or wickets
Result summary: "India won by 6 wickets"
RESULT badge
Switches automatically from LIVE once the final ball is bowled

Upcoming Fixtures

Fans plan their week around matches. Showing them what is coming keeps them on your site even when nothing is live. Upcoming match fixtures display

Team names and short codes
Match date and start time
Series name and match number
UPCOMING badge

The Featured Matches Carousel

This is what your users see first: a scrollable view of everything happening right now: what is live, what just finished, what is coming up. No need to navigate anywhere. Everything is in front of them.

Horizontally scrollable: works on any screen size
Shows all three states side by side: LIVE, RESULT, UPCOMING
Series name, both teams, score, overs, result summary on a single card
Works for homepages, news portals, sports dashboards

IPL 2026 coverage is fully supported live scores, Super Over detection, and a real-time points table, from match 1.

Tournament Pages

This is where casual fans become engaged ones. Click any tournament card and a full detail page opens with four tabs: each answering a different question your users are asking. Info Tournament name, dates, format, participating countries. Everything in one place. Teams Every side in the competition with color-coded country badges. NEP in green, UAE in yellow, USA in red. Scannable in seconds. Stats The tournament leaders: most runs, most wickets, best economy, most sixes, most catches: ranked automatically from live match data. No one updates this manually. It just stays correct. Points Table Full standings with wins, losses, NRR, points. Qualification zones highlighted automatically. Updates after every result.

Inside Every Match: 8 Tabs

The card view is just the surface. Tap into any match and a full scorecard opens. This is where serious fans live.

Scorecard

Full batting and bowling figures for both innings. Runs, balls, fours, sixes, strike rate, how each batter was dismissed. Everything a fan checks after stumps.

Live

Ball by ball as it happens. Every delivery. This tab is only active during a live match: once the game ends it gives way to the completed scorecard. Your users always see what is relevant to the moment.

Overs

The innings told over by over. Where did the chase accelerate? Where did the wickets cluster? Where did the momentum shift? This tab turns a scorecard into a story.

Graph

A visual chart of how each innings moved across overs. Wickets marked. Momentum visible. Useful for fans who want to read the shape of a match without going through every line of numbers.

Fantasy

Each player's fantasy points calculated live as the match moves. Runs, wickets, catches: all reflected in real time, every delivery. For fantasy cricket apps this is the tab your users will return to most.

Teams

The confirmed playing eleven for both sides, updated automatically when lineups are announced. No manual entry. Always the actual team on the field.

Stats

Partnership data for the match: how much each pair added, at what rate, across how many balls. Context the standard scorecard leaves out entirely.

Odds

Where available and legally permitted, betting odds update in real time alongside the score. Active only during a live match. Disappears automatically once the game ends. Not every tab appears for every match. Live and Odds are only active during a match in progress. The rest stay visible after the game ends. The widget shows what is relevant and removes what is not: automatically.

What Most Widgets Get Wrong

This is the part nobody talks about. And it is the part that costs you the most. Most widgets handle one scenario: a match that is going normally. But cricket does not always go normally. A Super Over starts without warning after a tied match. A Test match has four innings, possible declarations, possible follow-on. Rain comes and the target changes. Most widgets were never built for any of this. When these moments hit, they go blank, freeze on the last score, or show the wrong result entirely. The 2019 World Cup final went to a Super Over. Around 180 million people checked scores. A significant number of them saw the wrong thing: not because the data was wrong, but because the scorecard was never designed for what a Super Over actually looks like: two new innings on top of an already-completed match, a second result, a new winner. We built this widget to handle every match situation from the start. Not as special cases: as a normal part of what cricket is.

Match State	Badge	What It Shows
Featured matches carousel	LIVE / RESULT / UPCOMING	Scrollable view of all current matches
Live match	LIVE	Real-time score, overs, run rate: updates every delivery
Completed match	RESULT	Final scores, winning margin, result summary
Scheduled match	UPCOMING	Teams, match number, date and time
Tournament page	INFO / TEAMS / STATS / TABLE	Full four-tab tournament detail
Super Over	SUPER OVER	Auto-detects the Super Over: shows both mini-innings with the final result
Test match	TEST	All four innings with declarations and follow-on handled correctly
Rain-affected match	D/L	Duckworth-Lewis revised target shown with the correct match state
Abandoned match	ABANDONED	Match state updated cleanly: no frozen score, no blank card

The Super Over detection is worth calling out. The widget recognises when a match has entered a Super Over and switches display automatically. You configure nothing. Your users see the right score all the time.

Who This Is Built For

Sports news sites Your readers leave during live matches because your page cannot give them the score. A widget changes that. The live score sits right next to your coverage: no reason to visit Cricbuzz, no reason to leave. Fantasy cricket apps Fantasy players check scores while picking their team. If the score is wrong or 45 seconds behind, they make the wrong pick. Then they blame the app. The widget shows accurate live data so your users always have the right information at the moment they need it most. Cricket blogs You write about the game. The widget makes your site feel alive during a match: real scores running alongside your analysis and commentary. Readers stay longer on a page when something on it is updating in real time. Tournament websites If you run a tournament, the widget gives you a ready-made points table, fixture list, team pages, and stats section. You do not build them. They come with the widget and stay current as results come in. Apps adding cricket coverage One embed. Full cricket coverage. No separate data team, no backend infrastructure to maintain.

Why Not Just Build It Yourself?

	Cricket Widget	Building with a Cricket API
Setup time	Under 10 minutes	Weeks of development
UI design	Included	You build from scratch
Real-time updates	Built in	You maintain
Super Over handling	Auto-detected	Custom logic required
Ongoing maintenance	None	Ongoing
Developer needed	No	Yes

An API gives you raw data that you build a display around. You need a developer, a design system, and someone to maintain it when cricket does something unexpected: which it does every season. The widget is the finished display. Paste one line of code and a live scorecard appears on your page. Setup takes three simple steps: Copy the embed code from your dashboard → Paste it into your site's HTML → Done. Full documentation walks you through each step.

Common Questions

Does it cover the IPL? Yes: live scores, results, points table, Super Over handling, and individual tournament stats for every IPL match. The same widget covers the T20 World Cup, The Ashes, PSL, bilateral series, and domestic tournaments year-round. What shows when there is no live match? The most recent results and the next upcoming fixtures. It is never blank. There is always something relevant for your users to see. Does it work on mobile? Yes. Fully responsive. Works inside mobile web views and browser-based apps. The same embed adjusts to any screen size automatically. Is there a dark and light theme? Both are built in. You choose which one matches your site. Full setup documentation available at cricketapi.com/v5/docs

Add Cricket to Your Site Before the IPL Starts

The IPL is one of the most-watched sporting events in the world. Every match that goes live while your site shows nothing is traffic you are sending to Cricbuzz, ESPNcricinfo, or whoever your users trust more than you at that moment. Setup takes under 10 minutes. Live scores, full scorecard, tournament standings, Super Over support, fantasy points, player stats: all on your site before the first ball of the season. Book a live demo Get the widget Tags: cricket widget · cricket widget for website · live cricket score website · cricket scorecard embed · fantasy cricket widget · IPL widget · super over scorecard · cricket API alternative · cricket points table widget · live cricket scorecard

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