Cricsheet

Today I’m releasing additions for every format of the data, along with accompanying version number bumps.

Today I’ve updated the site to remove all matches featuring the Afghanistani men’s team, as well as matches from the Afghanistani Premier League.

The 4th monthnotes in a row (let’s not mention that it’s 1 day late) finds us with another 133 matches added to the site bringing us up to 14,431 matches in total.

First January, then February, and now, in a surprising move, I complete the hat-trick with the 3rd “monthnotes” entry.

Hello again 👋.

Inspired by Simon Willison, and his use of weeknotes, I’ve decided to start providing a semi-regular update on what I’ve been doing with regards to Cricsheet.

Well this is awkward.

Yesterday I released the data files for 219 County Championship matches from 2019 and 2021, and also made some additions to the various data formats to accomodate some of the various differences I encountered while processing the data.

Today I’m finally ready to release some of the biggest updates I’ve ever introduced to Cricsheet, along with an accompanying set of smaller changes some of which are that are driven by these updates, and some of which are tweaks for the future.

Cricsheet officially went “on hiatus” on the 30th of October 2017, with the last match data actually being added on the 16th of July that year.

It has been over a month since I added new data to the site and, to mark the end of that apparently inactive period, I’m going to provide an update on what I’ve actually been doing, and the results of that work.

47 Test matches were played in 2016 however, as dedicated observers of Cricsheet will have noted, I have, until now, only provided data for 46 of those matches.

I’ve been making data available on this site since 2009 and have gradually increased the number of files I provide to the point that, as I write, 2,780 matches are available.

The data version included in every data file I provide, and explained on the format page of the site, has just been changed from 0.5 to 0.6.

3 months ago, in October, we said that we would need to give some further thought as to how we will deal with T20 matches that aren’t regarded by the ICC as ‘T20 Internationals’.