---
title: "List cricket matches"
method: GET
path: "/v1/cricket/matches"
tags: ["cricket"]
---

# List cricket matches

`GET /v1/cricket/matches`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.bigballsdata.com`
- URL: `https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/cricket/matches`
- Auth: one of:
  - API key in header `x-api-key`
  - HTTP bearer

Cricket match list, served from stored rows. Returns a JSON ARRAY in `data`, never a `{scores: ...}` object. Narrow with ?series= (matched case-insensitively as a substring of the competition name) and ?date= (one day, or an inclusive START:END range of days), and page with ?limit= + ?offset=.

## Query parameters

- `series` string
- `date` string
- `tz` string
- `limit` integer
- `offset` integer
- `page` integer
- `status` 'scheduled' | 'live' | 'finished' | 'postponed' | 'cancelled'

## Response `200`

ok. `data` is an array of matches (empty when the filter genuinely matches nothing). `meta` carries `count` (rows in this page), `total` (rows matching the filter), `limit` and `offset`.

- object: The standard response wrapper. Only `data` is guaranteed. `error` is absent (not null) on 16 of 40 live 200 responses measured 2026-09-18, so test for the KEY before reading it; this block declared it required until then. On a non-2xx, `error` is present and `data` is absent.
  - `data` object[], required
  - `meta` object: Response metadata. NOTHING here is guaranteed: measured over 38 live envelopes on 2026-09-18, `cached` and `request_id` appeared in 29, `source` in 28, `cache_age_ms` in 9 and `confidence` in 6. This block previously declared all five REQUIRED, which no response has ever satisfied. Treat every field as optional and branch on its absence. Routes add their own keys here (`count`, `limit`, `offset`, `note`, `total`, and per-endpoint ones), so do not assume a closed set.
    - `date_window` object: Present when ?date= was applied. The exact window the filter used, so an omission at a day boundary is visible. start_utc is inclusive, end_utc exclusive. timezone is UTC, or the zone named by ?tz=, in which case the window is that local day. Boxing card dates are published event dates, so timezone and bounds are null there.
      - `date` string
      - `timezone` string, nullable
      - `start_utc` string, date-time, nullable
      - `end_utc` string, date-time, nullable
      - `note` string
    - `source` 'official-league' | 'aggregator-paid' | 'aggregator-free' | 'community-scraper' | 'forecast' | 'mixed' | 'cache' | 'none' | 'unknown-source' | 'stored' | 'catalogue' | 'gateway' | 'coverage-snapshot': Opaque source-tier label. Customers never see the vendor identity. `forecast` marks a weather forecast (GET /v1/matches/{id}/weather).
    - `confidence` number, float
    - `cached` boolean
    - `cache_age_ms` integer
    - `request_id` string
    - `fields_missing` string[]
    - `note` string: Short factual disclosure about something this response deliberately withheld, present only when there is something to disclose. On live scores it appears when `match_id` could not be resolved to a stored match and was therefore omitted: it gives the counts and points at `/v1/stored/matches`, whose ids you can call back into. Absent when every served id resolves. Distinct from `message`, which explains `coverage: false` or a stale response. This one is attached to a response that DID serve data and names the part of it that is deliberately missing.
    - `count` integer: Rows in this page.
    - `total` integer: Rows matching the filter, before limit/offset.
    - `limit` integer
    - `offset` integer
  - `error` ApiError
    - `code` string, required
    - `message` string, required
    - `details` unknown

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid query parameters: a bad ?date format, a ?date range whose start is after its end, an out-of-range ?limit or ?offset, or an unsupported ?status filter.

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