mcp-cricket

Win probability for a limited-overs match, live or hypothetical, from a logistic model fitted on 8,000+ archived matches (per format and innings, with pre-match Elo). Pass a state for an in-play number, or just two team names for a fixture that has not started. Returns each side's probability and who is favored. Use for 'who is winning', 'what are the odds at X/Y', or 'who is favoured tomorrow'.

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  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "balls_per_over": {
      "description": "balls per over: 6 unless The Hundred, which bowls 5-ball sets — pass 5 there or every rate is a fifth off",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "batting_team": {
      "description": "team name; improves a live estimate via Elo, and with bowling_team alone prices a fixture that has not started",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "bowling_team": {
      "description": "optional team name, improves the estimate via Elo",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "innings": {
      "description": "1 for the side setting a target, 2 for the chase",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "overs": {
      "description": "overs bowled in cricket notation, e.g. 15.3 = 15 overs 3 balls",
      "type": "number"
    },
    "runs": {
      "description": "runs scored so far by the batting side",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "target": {
      "description": "runs needed to win (second innings only)",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "total_overs": {
      "description": "overs per side: 20 for T20 and The Hundred, 50 for ODI",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "wickets": {
      "description": "wickets lost so far (0-10)",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "runs",
    "wickets",
    "overs",
    "total_overs",
    "innings"
  ]
}

Career batter-vs-bowler record from ball-by-ball archives: balls faced, runs scored, dismissals, strike rate. Cricket tracks these like baseball's batter-vs-pitcher splits.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "batter": {
      "description": "batter name, e.g. 'Virat Kohli' or 'V Kohli'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "bowler": {
      "description": "bowler name, e.g. 'Jasprit Bumrah'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "format": {
      "description": "'t20' or 'odi'; omit to try T20 then ODI",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "batter",
    "bowler"
  ]
}

Career aggregate statistics for a player (men's and women's cricket) from Cricsheet ball-by-ball archives: innings, runs, strike rate, average, high score, wickets, economy — per format.

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  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "description": "player name, e.g. 'Rachin Ravindra'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name"
  ]
}

Look up an archived limited-overs match and return its scorecard: innings totals, top scorers, leading wicket-takers. Search by team names, league (mlc, ipl, bbl, psl, cpl), and/or year.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "description": "free text, e.g. 'the 2025 IPL final' or 'Washington Freedom vs San Francisco Unicorns 2026'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ]
}

How a player performs by phase of the innings — powerplay, middle overs, and the death — for batting and bowling. This is the split that separates a strike-rate merchant from a genuine finisher, computed from ball-by-ball archives.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "description": "player name, e.g. 'Nicholas Pooran'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "total_overs": {
      "description": "20 for T20 (default), 50 for ODI/List-A",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name"
  ]
}

How a ground plays: matches recorded, average first-innings score, highest first-innings total, and how often the chasing side wins there. Useful for toss decisions and pre-match reads.

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  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "total_overs": {
      "description": "20 for T20 (default), 50 for ODI/List-A",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "venue": {
      "description": "ground name or fragment, e.g. 'Grand Prairie' or 'Eden Gardens'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "venue"
  ]
}

Leaderboards for a league and optional season: most runs or most wickets, from ball-by-ball archives. Leagues include mlc, ipl, bbl, psl, cpl and international cricket.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "kind": {
      "description": "'batting' (default) or 'bowling'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "league": {
      "description": "league code, e.g. 'mlc', 'ipl', 'bbl'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "how many players to return (default 10)",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "year": {
      "description": "optional season year, e.g. '2026'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "league"
  ]
}

A team's most recent archived results — opponent, outcome, and match event — for reading current form.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "description": "how many recent matches (default 8)",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "team": {
      "description": "team name, e.g. 'San Francisco Unicorns'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "team"
  ]
}

Live prediction-market prices for a cricket match from Kalshi (a CFTC-regulated US exchange), shown beside this server's own win probability so the two can be compared. Prices are cents that equal implied probability: 42 means the market prices a 42% chance. Minor League Cricket prices come from cricket_minor_league's rule, a market figure only when Kalshi's book is a real price, and this tool gives the same answer for those games. Informational only — not betting advice, and event contracts are legal only in some jurisdictions.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "team_a": {
      "description": "one team, e.g. 'San Francisco Unicorns'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "team_b": {
      "description": "the other team, e.g. 'Guyana Amazon Warriors'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "team_a",
    "team_b"
  ]
}

How a batter gets out, or how a bowler takes wickets, across the ball-by-ball archive: bowled, caught, lbw, stumped, run out and the rest, with counts and shares. Run outs are excluded from the bowling view because they are not credited to the bowler.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "perspective": {
      "description": "'batting' (default) for how they get out, 'bowling' for how they take wickets",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "player": {
      "description": "player name, e.g. 'V Kohli'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "player"
  ]
}

Dot-ball percentage, boundary percentage and economy for a bowler, or the same rates faced by a batter. These are the numbers that decide limited-overs games well before the wickets column does, and no scorecard shows them.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "perspective": {
      "description": "'bowling' (default) or 'batting'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "player": {
      "description": "player name, e.g. 'JJ Bumrah'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "total_overs": {
      "description": "restrict to one format: 20 for T20, 50 for ODI. Omit for all",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "player"
  ]
}

A batter's record batting first versus chasing, in limited-overs cricket: runs, balls, average and strike rate for each. Multi-day cricket is excluded rather than guessed at, since there the fourth innings is the chase and the first three are not comparable.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "player": {
      "description": "player name, e.g. 'V Kohli'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "total_overs": {
      "description": "restrict to one format: 20 for T20, 50 for ODI. Omit for all",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "player"
  ]
}

A batter's most productive partnerships: runs added while the two were at the crease together, how many stands, and their best. Stands are reconstructed by segmenting each innings at the wickets that fall, since the archive records the striker but not the non-striker.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "description": "how many partners (default 8)",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "player": {
      "description": "player name, e.g. 'RG Sharma'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "player"
  ]
}

Currently live and upcoming cricket matches with scores where available (ESPNcricinfo public feeds, plus Minor League Cricket games from Kalshi's live data).

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  "type": "object",
  "properties": {}
}

Scores and win chances for Minor League Cricket (the US domestic T20 league) from Kalshi's public live data: every game live, starting within 3 hours or finished in the last 2 hours, or one team's game. Each game gives its state, start time (ET), score, what the chasing side needs or the result, and win chances: the Kalshi market's midpoint only when its book is a real price, and this server's model only during the chase. Kalshi's feed has no ball-by-ball commentary and no batters or bowlers. If nothing is on, it says when the next game is. The league's history, teams, grounds and players are cricket_minor_league_info's.

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  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "team": {
      "description": "optional: a full or partial Minor League Cricket team name, e.g. 'Atlanta Fire' or 'Kingsmen'. Omit for every game on now",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}

Player records and league history for Minor League Cricket (the US domestic T20 league), from data this server holds: CricClubs scorecards for 2026 and results with grounds for 2023-2026, CricClubs' 2025 and 2026 batting tables, Wikipedia's 2021-2024 squads and leader tables (CC BY-SA 4.0) and a research record that sources every fact. Every argument is optional and they combine: player for a season-by-season card (add team when two players share a name); team for where they are based and play, their finals and a season's captain, wicketkeeper, players and results; team with opponent, date or both for one fixture's ground, result and 2026 top performers; ground; leaders with season and team; season alone for its champion, final and awards; topic for league facts. With no arguments it lists what it can answer. Each answer gives exact figures, its source and how current it is, and says what the data lacks. Names are matched whole: a surname several players share gets a question back, and a name the data lacks is said to be missing, never answered with another player's figures. Live scores and win chances are cricket_minor_league's.

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  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "date": {
      "description": "a day, YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. '2026-09-26': with team (and opponent) for that day's game, or alone for every game that day",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "ground": {
      "description": "a ground's name, e.g. 'Church Street Park', 'Grand Prairie' or 'NY Ovals'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "leaders": {
      "description": "a season's leaders: runs or wickets for 2021-2026, the rest for 2026. Narrow with season and team",
      "enum": [
        "runs",
        "wickets",
        "sixes",
        "fours",
        "fifties",
        "hundreds",
        "economy",
        "strike_rate",
        "batting_average",
        "bowling_average"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "opponent": {
      "description": "the other team, for a fixture with team",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "player": {
      "description": "a player's full name, e.g. 'Andries Gous'. A surname alone works when only one player has it",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "season": {
      "description": "a season, 2020-2026. Alone, that season's champion, final and awards; with other arguments, it narrows them. Default 2026 where a season is needed",
      "maximum": 2026,
      "minimum": 2020,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "team": {
      "description": "a team's name, e.g. 'Chicago Kingsmen', 'All Stars' or 'Kingsmen'; 'Atlanta Fire v Atlanta Lightning' is read as a fixture. With player, it picks between players who share a name",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "topic": {
      "description": "a league-level fact: overview, format (season and playoffs), champions (every final), draft (roster rules), watch (tickets and streaming), history (founding and renamed teams), mlc (the pathway to Major League Cricket), teams (conferences and divisions)",
      "enum": [
        "overview",
        "format",
        "champions",
        "draft",
        "watch",
        "history",
        "mlc",
        "teams"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}

Explain a cricket term in plain English with its closest baseball equivalent (wicket, yorker, googly, powerplay, DLS, and ~60 more).

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  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "term": {
      "description": "cricket term, e.g. 'googly'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "term"
  ]
}