How to Get Live Cricket Scores on Your Website or Application

• Step 1: Sign up for CricketAPI and create a free project
• Step 2: Fetch tournament fixture details using the IPL 2025 tournament key
• Step 3: Use the IPL 2025 match keys from the fixtures to access match details
• Step 4: Receive live match updates via the Match API (The Match API supports both pull and push mechanisms if enabled)
• Step 5: Build and test your live score displays

Why Live Scores Matter for Your Business

Who Can Benefit from Live Scores?

The Step-by-Step Process to Implement Live Cricket Scores

Step 1: Sign up for CricketAPI

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Step 2: Retrieve Tournament Fixtures using the IPL 2025 tournament key

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Step 3: Fetch live match data with the Match API (use match key) 

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Step 4: Build your live score displays 

Step 1: Sign Up for API Access

• Head over to the Roanuz Console
• Sign up and select a plan that fits your needs
• Get your project key and access token

Step 2: Fetch Tournament Fixtures Using the IPL 2025 Tournament Key

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import requests

project_key = 'YOUR_PROJ_KEY'

token = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN'

tournament_key = "a-rz--cricket--bcci--iplt20--2025-3utN"

url = "https://api.sports.roanuz.com/v5/cricket/" + project_key + "/tournament/" + tournament_key + "/fixtures/"

headers = {
    'rs-token': token
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

• Match Keys: Use these unique identifiers to later fetch live match data.
• Match Details: Information such as teams, dates, times, and venues.

Step 3: Access Match API to Get Live Data

# Python example with error handling

import requests

# Replace these with your actual project key and token
project_key = "YOUR_PROJ_KEY"
token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"

try:
    match_key = "match_key_from_fixtures"  # e.g., iplt20_2025_match_01
    url = "https://api.sports.roanuz.com/v5/cricket/" + project_key + "/match/" + match_key + "/"

    headers = {
        'rs-token': token
    }

    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    response.raise_for_status()  # Check for HTTP errors
    match_data = response.json()
    print(match_data)  # Display the response data for verification

except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
    print("API request failed: " + str(e))
    match_data = None  # Handle gracefully in your application

• Match Details: Complete information like Teams, Match number, Tournament details
• Match Status: Live status (Pre, InPlay, Innings Break, Complete)
• Toss: Which team won the toss and what they elected to do and Playing XI
• Venue: Stadium details, location, and country
• Weather: Temperature, conditions (sunny, cloudy, etc.)
• Match Format: ODI, T20, Test (with overs per innings)
• Start & End Time: Scheduled times in local and UTC
• Umpires & Officials: On-field, TV, and reserve umpires plus match referee
• Current Score: Runs, wickets, overs, and more
• Players at Crease: Current batsmen with their live scores
• Current Bowler: Active bowler with their spell details
• Full Squads: Complete playing XI for both teams
• Squad Lists: Including reserves and substitutes
• Run Rate & Key Stats: Current, required, and projected rates plus individual performance metrics

Match API Refresh Rates: Keeping Your Scores Up to Date

Step 4: Build Your Live Score Components

The Perfect Live Score Experience: What You Can Build

1. Live Score Display

Innings 1 (CSK): 106/1 (20.0 Overs) – Completed

Innings 2 (Opponent): 10/0 (2.0 Overs) - Ongoing

• First Innings Data: Retrieve the completed score for the first innings from the tournament data. In the API response, this is provided under the innings key (e.g., a_1) with fields such as:
  • score_str: e.g., "106/1 in 20.0"
  • Other details (wickets, overs, etc.) that confirm the innings status.
• Second Innings Live Data: Once the match progresses into the second innings (e.g., key b_1), the live API will now reference the current score for that innings. For the live display, extract:
  • Runs, wickets, and overs from the live object (e.g., from match_data.data.play.live.score)

2. Recent Ball Commentary

LAST OVER: . 6 . 1 . 4 . 6 .

LAST BALL: Bumrah to Kohli: SIX! Straight down the ground!

• Extract data from:
  • match_data.data.play.live.recent_overs – Contains ball keys
  • match_data.data.play.related_balls – Contains detailed ball information
• Implementation steps:
  1. Get the ball keys from recent_overs
  2. For each key, find the corresponding ball details in related_balls
  3. Extract the runs scored and commentary from comment under related_balls attribute for each ball
  4. Display them in a readable format

3. Comprehensive Scorecard

BATTING

Player         Status       Runs  Balls  4s  6s  SR
Dwayne Smith   Not out       29    19    3   2   152.63
Chris Gayle    Not out       38    17    3   4   223.53

BOWLING

Player           O    M    R    W    Econ
Ryan Sidebottom  2.0  0   17    0    8.5
Chris Tremlett   2.0  0   25    0    12.5

• Extract data from:
  • Current innings: match_data.data.play.innings.a_1 (or the current innings code)
  • Player details: match_data.data.players
• Implementation steps:
  1. Identify the current innings (e.g., 'a_1' for team A's first innings)
  2. Get the batting order from that innings
  3. For each player key in the batting order, fetch their details from the players object
  4. Similarly, build the bowling card by getting bowling details

Understanding the Data Flow

1. Match Object Structure: The top-level object contains basic match information
   • Teams, venue, tournament, format, etc.
2. Play Section: Contains all the live action data
   • play.innings: Contains details for each team's innings
   • play.live: Contains the current live state
3. Live Section: The heart of real-time updates
   • live.score: Current score details
   • live.striker_key & live.non_striker_key: Current batsmen
   • live.bowler_key: Current bowler
   • live.recent_overs: Recent balls information

• Player keys in striker_key link to detailed player information in the players object
• Ball keys in recent_overs link to detailed ball information in related_balls
• Innings keys like a_1 link to detailed innings information in play.innings

match_data
  ├── key: "rsaban_2022_test_02"
  ├── name: "South Africa vs Bangladesh"
  ├── teams
  │    ├── a: {key: "rsa", name: "South Africa", ...}
  │    └── b: {key: "ban", name: "Bangladesh", ...}
  └── play
       ├── innings
       │    └── a_1: {
       │         score_str: "106/1 in 27.2",
       │         batting_order: ["d_elgar", "s_erwee", "ke_petersen"],
       │         ...
       │    }
       └── live
            ├── innings: "a_1"
            ├── batting_team: "a"
            ├── striker_key: "ke_petersen"
            ├── non_striker_key: "d_elgar"
            ├── score: {runs: 106, wickets: 1, ...}
            └── recent_overs: ["ball_key1", "ball_key2", ...]

Implementation Checklist

• [ ] Sign up for CricketAPI and select the appropriate plan.
• [ ] Retrieve tournament fixtures API to get the match keys.
• [ ] Set up match data retrieval using the match key with error handling.
• [ ] Create live score display components.
• [ ] Build ball-by-ball commentary sections.
• [ ] Develop detailed scorecard views.
• [ ] Implement an appropriate caching strategy.
• [ ] Test all match states and edge cases.
• [ ] Set up monitoring for API ServiceLevel Indicators.

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Frequently Asked Questions

• How much does it cost?
  • Plans are usage-based. For Live scores and other basic APIs, use the Essential plan (₹14,135/month annual or ₹17,669/month monthly).
  • For tournaments, Business (₹27,999/month annual or ₹34,999/month monthly) or Business + (₹47,999/month annual or ₹59,999/month monthly) is recommended.
  • Enterprise plans are custom. More details: CricketAPI Console.
• Can I use the API in different programming languages? Yes. CricketAPI supports multiple languages including: Python, Java, CURL, .NET, NodeJS, PHP, Ruby, and Go.
• What if I get stuck? The CricketAPI Documentation is loaded with help, or just email support@roanuz.com. They're pros at sorting things out.

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