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Choose a data source that fits your dashboard
Compare providers by supported competitions and formats, live versus post-match coverage, scorecard and ball-by-ball detail, authentication, plan limits, update guarantees, and rights to display or redistribute the data. A provider’s general feature list is not a guarantee that every competition or data field is available on every plan.
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| Provider | Documented capabilities and constraints | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Sportradar | Documents schedules, match summaries, timelines and ball-by-ball feeds. Its coverage levels distinguish post-match data from core information such as scores, players, current-over statistics and required run rate, and advanced details such as shot and ball types and wagon-wheel data. API calls require authentication. | Which coverage level applies to your competitions, what your plan returns, and the current authentication, update and usage terms. |
| Roanuz | Documents a Match API for live scores, scorecards and match statistics, with a separate endpoint for ball-by-ball updates. Access varies by plan. | Whether your competition and desired fields are included in the plan, along with current limits and reuse terms. |
| Cricket Data | Advertises live scores, scorecards, player statistics and ball-by-ball data, with free and paid access options. | Validate competition coverage, performance expectations, plan limits and commercial reuse rights; the advertised capabilities alone do not establish those terms. |
| ECB Play-Cricket API | The ECB says the Play-Cricket API is not available for real-time use cases. Access is intended for platform clubs and leagues exporting data they control, with authorization; third-party commercial access is generally unavailable except by exception. | Do not use it for a live public scoreboard unless the intended use has been explicitly authorized and supported. See the ECB data-use guidance. |
There is no single provider that can be recommended for every dashboard based on these descriptions. Check the provider’s current documentation and contract for the exact competitions, fields, update guarantees, rate limits, caching, historical retention, display and redistribution rights your project needs.
Find a match before requesting its score
Most integrations have a discovery step: obtain a provider-specific match identifier from a schedule or recent-matches endpoint, then request the match data using that identifier. Keep the identifier in your own records so later refreshes update the same match rather than creating duplicates.
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- Roanuz: Its Recent Matches and Schedule APIs return match keys. The Match API exposes live data under
data.now, playing XI underdata.teams.playing_xi, innings and batting or bowling order underdata.innings, and player match-innings statistics underdata.players. Ball-by-ball information is requested separately. See the Roanuz Cricket API documentation. - Sportradar: Its documented flow uses the Daily Schedule to obtain a Sport Event ID and then requests Match Summary. See the Sportradar Cricket API overview.
Use the provider’s own identifiers and endpoint definitions; these values are not interchangeable between services.
Shape provider responses into a stable data model
Keep provider-specific payloads behind a normalization layer. This lets the dashboard render one consistent internal format even if you later change data source or add another feed. The following is an implementation pattern, not a provider-mandated schema.
- Match: provider match ID, competition, start time, status and current phase.
- Teams and players: provider IDs, display names, lineup or playing XI, and player roles where supplied.
- Innings: batting side, innings order, runs, wickets, overs and current status.
- Batting and bowling figures: per-player statistics and their association with an innings.
- Events: ordered scoring or ball-by-ball events, including only the detail available from the selected feed.
Preserve the provider match ID and the source’s event ordering when mapping data. Provider fields and nesting differ: for example, Sportmonks’ cricket API documentation describes live-score data with home and away teams, lineups, runs, batting and bowling data, and nested relationships used to resolve player names.
Build the score view around the data you have
A first useful screen can be organized into three areas. Do not imply a level of detail that your selected coverage does not provide.
- Match header: teams, match and innings status, current score, wickets and overs.
- Scorecard: batting and bowling rows for the current or completed innings, when supplied by the feed.
- Current over or event timeline: ball-by-ball detail when the plan includes it. Sportradar says match timelines can include readable event descriptions and statistics, depending on coverage.
Make state visible: distinguish a live innings from a break, completed innings or finished match using the status values available from the provider. When a statistic or event is absent, omit it or label it as unavailable rather than treating missing data as zero.
Deliver live updates without exposing credentials
Keep secret API keys or access tokens on your server, not in browser code. Have the browser request a dashboard endpoint you control; your backend can authenticate to the provider, map the response to your normalized model and return only the fields the page needs.
- Read the chosen provider’s current documentation and contract for its update mechanism, authentication, rate limits and latency expectations.
- Implement server-side requests using the provider’s documented method and credentials.
- Refresh according to the provider’s documented limits and serve normalized match data to the dashboard.
- Handle failed or delayed requests by showing the last successful update time and an explicit stale or unavailable state, rather than presenting old data as current.
The available provider documentation establishes authenticated access for Sportradar and shows provider-specific keys or tokens, but does not establish a comparable polling interval or rate limit across all providers. Choose a refresh cadence only after checking the selected service’s current terms; do not assume that faster polling is permitted or improves freshness.
Check access and reuse rights before launch
Technical access does not automatically grant permission to publish, cache or redistribute scores. Confirm that the intended use—such as a public website, a commercial product or an internal display—is allowed for the competitions and data fields you plan to show. The ECB’s restrictions concern Play-Cricket specifically; they should not be generalized to other cricket APIs, whose own terms must be checked.
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