Live cricket scores, series, fixtures and player data for international and major domestic cricket - the 10 most recent matches, updated hourly.
🕒 Updated 2 Sep, 4:24 PMLive scores are polled hourly from CricketData.org (CricAPI) and cover international and major domestic cricket, showing the 10 most recently updated matches. Scores can lag the real match by up to an hour between polls.
Test cricket runs up to five days with two innings per side and no over limit. One Day Internationals (ODIs) cap each side at 50 overs in a single innings. Twenty20 (T20) caps each side at 20 overs and usually finishes in about three hours. The IPL, cricket's biggest domestic league, is played entirely in the T20 format.
287 is the runs scored, 6 is the number of wickets lost, and 50 is the overs bowled so far or the innings limit for that format. A team batting second chasing 287 needs to pass that total before running out of overs or wickets, whichever comes first.
A wicket is a batter getting out, by being bowled, caught, run out, leg-before-wicket (LBW) or a handful of rarer methods. A team fields 11 players but only 2 bat at a time, so an innings ends once 10 are out (the 11th has no partner left) or the overs for that format run out, whichever happens first.
A tie happens when both teams finish on the exact same score, genuinely rare, and is possible in any format. A draw is different and specific to Test cricket: it's what happens when the five days run out before either team can force a result, even though the scores aren't level. Limited-overs cricket (ODI, T20) can't end in a draw since there's always a fixed number of overs to decide it, so those formats use a Super Over or similar tiebreaker instead.
DLS is the formula used to work out a fair revised target when rain or bad light cuts a limited-overs match short. It adjusts for both overs lost and wickets already in hand at the time of the interruption, rather than just scaling the target down by the overs remaining, since a team with wickets in hand can score faster than one that's lost several.
This page's scores are polled hourly from CricketData.org, not ball by ball, so a score shown here can lag the real match by up to an hour between refreshes. It's a reliable way to check where a match stands, not to follow it delivery by delivery.
Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 11 players each. The batting side sends two batters out at a time to face deliveries bowled by the fielding side, scoring runs by running between the wickets or hitting the ball to the boundary, four runs if it crosses after bouncing, six if it clears the boundary without touching the ground. The bowling side dismisses batters ("wickets") through methods like bowled, caught, leg-before-wicket (LBW) or run out; since a team fields 11 batters but needs two at the crease at once, an innings ends once 10 of them are out, the 11th simply has no partner left to bat with. Scores are always written as runs first, then wickets, so "287/6" means 287 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. The side scoring more runs across the match wins, subject to each format's own rules for a tie or no result.
Cricket is played in three main formats, differing mainly in how many overs, sets of six deliveries, each side gets. Test cricket is the oldest and longest format, played over up to five days with two innings per side and no over limit, prioritising patience and strategy over speed. One Day Internationals (ODIs) cap each side at 50 overs in a single innings, typically running seven to eight hours across a full day including the innings break. Twenty20 (T20) cricket, the newest and fastest format, caps each side at 20 overs and usually finishes in around three hours. The Indian Premier League (IPL), cricket's biggest domestic league by viewership, is played entirely in the T20 format.
A cricket score is always read as runs, then wickets, then overs bowled: "India 287/6 (50 overs)" means India have scored 287 runs, lost 6 wickets, and faced 50 overs. An over is six legal deliveries bowled by one bowler before a different bowler takes over from the other end; illegal deliveries (wides and no-balls) don't count toward the six and usually add an extra run as a penalty. Run rate is the average runs scored per over, used constantly in limited-overs cricket to judge how quickly a team is scoring, and in a run chase, the required run rate is what commentary and scorecards track most closely in the closing overs. This page's own scores update on an hourly poll rather than ball by ball, so a score shown here can lag the real match by up to an hour between refreshes, useful for checking where a match stands, not for following it delivery by delivery.
The IPL runs roughly March to May each year and is the most-watched domestic T20 league in the world, drawing hundreds of millions of viewers across TV and streaming for its biggest matches. The ICC Cricket World Cup (50-over format) and T20 World Cup are each held every four years, though the exact months shift by host country and edition rather than following one fixed calendar slot. Beyond these marquee events, international teams play year-round bilateral series, Tests, ODIs and T20Is, scheduled under each cricket board's own Future Tours Programme; India's home international season typically runs roughly October to March, largely to avoid the peak summer heat.
Cultural impact: Cricket is arguably India's biggest cultural unifier, drawing a shared audience across states, languages and religions in a way few other things do, and a match against Pakistan in particular routinely becomes the most-watched sporting event of the year in India, carrying a rivalry and national attention well beyond the sport itself.
Economic impact: The IPL's media rights for the 2023-27 cycle sold for ₹48,390 crore (about $6.2 billion) in a single 2022 auction, split between Star India's television rights and Viacom18's digital rights, making the IPL's per-match value the second-highest of any sports property in the world behind the NFL. That scale of money supports a genuine industry around the league, player auctions, franchise operations, broadcast production, sponsorship and hospitality in every host city, not just the players on the field.
Personal and fantasy impact: Fantasy cricket is a real, sizeable business in India: platforms like Dream11 have crossed 250 million registered users, and contest-fee revenue across the industry ran to roughly ₹8,800 crore in 2024. Actual money-based cricket betting is a different matter and, unlike fantasy contests, is illegal: it falls foul of India's Public Gambling Act, and the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 has since banned online money gaming nationwide, so any site offering cricket betting is operating outside Indian law regardless of what it claims. On the viewing side, an IPL final alone regularly draws 300-plus million combined viewers, making it one of the most-watched single sporting events anywhere in the world.