Introduction

Cricket is the game that makes India lose sleep over grandiose victories and unexpected losses. But watching and following every game, especially in this era, is a hassle. The number of formats has increased, which has increased the number of matches to follow. And most of these matches don’t necessarily fit our schedules and calendars.

So what do we do? Miss out on our favorite game just because work or something else got in the way?

But what if I told you that you don’t have to miss out on anything? Neither your work, school, functions, weddings, nor your favorite match. All this becomes possible because of a cricket widget, powered by a Cricket API.

What Is a Cricket Widget?

A cricket API widget is an embeddable, plug-and-play digital component that can be embedded on your website, screen, or app, which displays live cricket scores, stats, schedules, results, and much more.

It’s a mini app that can be overlaid across any website and application. No refreshing tabs, no switching between five different apps mid-meeting. The scoreboard comes to you instead of you chasing it.

What Does a Cricket Widget Cover?

A good cricket widget isn’t just a number ticking up on a scoreboard. It’s a full match experience shrunk down to fit anywhere. Here’s what it typically covers:

Live Scores

The core of any cricket widget. Runs, wickets, overs, and run rate updated in real time, ball by ball. Whether it’s a T20 chase in the 19th over or a Test match crawling through session two, the widget keeps the score current without you refreshing anything.

Stats

Beyond the scoreline, widgets surface the numbers that give a match context — strike rates, economy rates, partnership totals, and fall of wickets. It’s the difference between knowing the score and understanding the story of the match.

Rosters

Playing XI, squad lists, and substitutions, all laid out before the toss and updated as teams are announced. Fans get to see exactly who’s taking the field before a single ball is bowled.

Team Stats

Head coach decisions aside, team-level numbers — win-loss records, powerplay totals, death-over economy — help fans and analysts alike track form across a series or tournament, not just a single game.

Player Stats

Individual performance data: runs, centuries, wickets, best figures, and career averages. This is the section fantasy players and stat-heads live in, especially during auction and selection season.

Head-to-Head Stats

Rivalries carry history. A head-to-head view pulls up how two teams or two players have fared against each other in the past, adding context and drama that a standalone scoreline never could.

Competition Center

A single hub for an entire tournament — fixtures, results, standings, and squads bundled together. Instead of hunting across pages for World Cup or IPL information, it’s all sitting in one embedded block.

Points Table

Who’s on top, who’s fighting for a play-off spot, and who’s already out of contention. A live-updating points table turns a widget from a scoreboard into a tournament tracker.

Real-Time Events

Wickets, boundaries, milestones, and momentum shifts pushed the moment they happen. This is what makes a widget feel alive instead of static — you know a six landed before you’ve even opened the highlights.

Commentary

Ball-by-ball text commentary that narrates the match as it unfolds. For fans who can’t stream video at their desk or in a lecture hall, commentary is often the closest thing to actually watching the game.

How Do You Integrate a Cricket Widget to Your Website?

Here’s the part that scares most people off — and it shouldn’t. Adding a cricket widget to a website doesn’t require rebuilding your site or hiring a specialist team. It comes down to three steps:

• Set the widget’s properties — using a JavaScript object (commonly named something like Entity_sport) where you define the sport, the widget type, the match or competition ID, size, color theme, and where on the page it should render.
• Add the loader script — a single script tag with the defer attribute, which fetches and initializes the widget without blocking the rest of your page from loading.
• Point it to a container — a plain HTML div with an ID, which is where the widget actually gets appended once the script runs.

That’s genuinely it. A basic setup looks something like this:

<div id=”whereUwantToPutOnlyId”></div>

var Entity_sport = {

field: “entity_cricket”,

widget: “match_summary”,

widget_size: “large”,

where_to: “whereUwantToPutOnlyId”,

color_type: “dark”,

choosed_preset: “lightred”

};

<script defer src=”widget-loader.js”></script>

You control the size (small, medium, or large), the color theme (light or dark, with presets like lightred or darkblue), and whether links inside the widget are clickable. Swap the widget name and match or competition ID, and the same three-step process works for a scorecard, a points table, or a full match center. No separate integration to learn for every widget type.

Check out the cricket Widget documentation for detailed process on how to set the widget up.

Entity Sports Cricket Widget

Entity Sports provides cricket widgets for various sports, including cricket. These widgets, supported by Entity Sports’ unparalleled and reliable data, are a must-have for a cricket fanatic — whether you’re running a fan blog, a fantasy platform, or a full-blown sports media site that needs to keep readers on the page instead of losing them to a score-checking tab switch.

The lineup goes well beyond a basic scoreboard. Entity Sports’ flagship widgets include the Match Center View, which bundles ball-by-ball updates, full scorecards, expert commentary, playing XI, head-to-head stats, and interactive Manhattan/Worm graphs into one live view. The Scorecard View breaks down batting and bowling figures, extras, and run rates in detail. And the H2H View digs into the historical rivalry between two teams or players, pulling up past encounters and performance metrics on demand.

Beyond these three, Entity Sports also offers Live Score View, Points Table View, Commentary, Points Table, Competition Squads, Competition Center, Top Batsmen, Top Bowlers, Competition Feature, Head to Head, Match Live, Players, and Squads widgets — essentially every angle a fan, a fantasy player, or a cricket analyst could want, available as a separate, embeddable piece.

Every widget is customizable too: team logos, custom match date formats, highlighted winning teams, sorting and grouping options, detailed score breakdowns, and an expandable match summary mode. And because it’s backed by Entity Sports’ real-time global data feed, none of it lags behind the actual game — the widget updates in seconds, the same seconds the ball is live.

Conclusion

Cricket doesn’t wait for your calendar, and honestly, neither should your access to it. A cricket widget takes the game — the scores, the stats, the commentary, the drama — and puts it exactly where you already are, whether that’s your own website, your app, or the tab you keep open at work. For platforms and publishers, it’s an easy way to keep fans engaged without building anything from scratch. For fans, it’s the difference between missing the moment and being right there when the six lands. Either way, the match doesn’t have to be something you catch up on later. With a cricket widget, it’s already on the page.

FAQs

1. What is a cricket widget?

A cricket widget is an embeddable component that displays live cricket scores, stats, schedules, and commentary on a website or app, updating in real time as the match progresses.

2. How do I add a cricket widget to my website?

You add a JavaScript configuration object with the widget’s properties, include a loader script with the defer attribute, and point it to a container div in your HTML. The whole process takes minutes, not a development sprint.

3. Are cricket widgets customizable?

Yes. Most cricket widgets, including Entity Sports’ lineup, let you adjust size, color theme, team logos, date formats, and whether links are clickable, so the widget matches your platform’s look instead of sticking out.

4. What data can a cricket widget display?

Live scores, ball-by-ball commentary, player and team stats, head-to-head records, points tables, competition schedules, and real-time match events — depending on which specific widget you choose to embed.

5. Which cricket widget is best for tracking a tournament?

The Competition Center widget is built for exactly that — it bundles fixtures, results, standings, and squads for an entire tournament into a single embedded block, rather than a single match.