What is cricket-data?

A cricket data skill using ESPN for recent match information and Cricsheet for historical ball-by-ball records. Ball-by-ball data describes every delivery in a completed match.

Finding series, scores, standings, summaries, news, completed matches, delivery-by-delivery data, player statistics, and player records.

It separates current or recently reported match information from detailed historical records, while requiring no API keys.

cricket-data — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by machina-sports

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add machina-sports/sports-skills --skill cricket-data

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/machina-sports/sports-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 220 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,052 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00220	$0.02052
Opus 5.5	$0.00088	$0.00821
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00044	$0.00410
Haiku 4.5	$0.00022	$0.00205

Measured 9d ago against content hash 62457c179b51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cricket-data scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_params.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cricket-data/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cricket Data (ESPN + Cricsheet)

Before writing queries, consult references/api-reference.md for endpoints, ID conventions, and data shapes. See references/competitions.md for the Cricsheet competition codes.

Quick Start

Prefer the CLI — it avoids Python import path issues. There are two backends: ESPN (live-ish) and Cricsheet (historical).

# ESPN backend (live-ish) — discover series first, then use its numeric ID
sports-skills cricket get_series
sports-skills cricket get_scoreboard --series_id=8048
sports-skills cricket get_standings --series_id=8048
sports-skills cricket get_game_summary --series_id=8048 --event_id=1535465
sports-skills cricket get_news --series_id=8048

# Cricsheet backend (historical, completed matches) — uses letter codes
sports-skills cricket get_competitions
sports-skills cricket get_matches --competition=ipl --season=2026
sports-skills cricket get_match_deliveries --competition=ipl --match_id=1473508
sports-skills cricket get_player_stats --competition=ipl --player="V Kohli"
sports-skills cricket find_player --name=kohli

CRITICAL: Before Any Query

CRITICAL: Before calling any data endpoint, verify:

ESPN series IDs are per-series, not per-league. Always discover them with get_series first. IDs change every season for recurring tournaments (e.g. each IPL season has a different ID). Never hardcode them — the 8048 in the examples is illustrative, not permanent.
Two ID spaces. get_series returns ESPN IDs (live, numeric, e.g. 8048). get_competitions returns Cricsheet codes (historical, letter codes, e.g. ipl). They are unrelated except at the match level: a Cricsheet match_id equals the ESPNcricinfo match ID, so it bridges the two backends.
Cricsheet covers completed matches only (~1-day lag after a match finishes). For anything live or upcoming, use the ESPN commands (get_scoreboard, get_series).
get_player_stats requires the exact Cricsheet name spelling (e.g. "V Kohli", not "Virat Kohli"). Resolve the spelling with find_player first.
No ICC rankings — there is no free source (v1 limitation). Series standings come from get_standings, which is empty for most bilateral tours (only league/group tournaments publish a points table).
First Cricsheet call per competition per day downloads a zip. Large competitions (Tests, ODIs, IPL) are tens of MB. Zips are cached 24h at ~/.cache/sports-skills/cricsheet/; later calls in the same day are fast.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

9d ago Changed · +19 lines 62457c179b51
1mo ago Changed b439db386bbb
1mo ago Changed 10da4436d8a4
2mo ago First seen · 112 lines · 220 tokens per session scan A 08781ac03f46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cricket-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository machina-sports/sports-skills (264 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 220 tokens to every session and 2,052 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Analytics and metrics

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