Introduction

Welcome back to the ‘Dataset of the Week’ blog series, where we bring you a mega compilation of free, available datasets on trending topics. The topic we chose for this week is the ‘Indian Premier League’.

You can also read previous blogs in the ‘Dataset of the Week’ series about the Russia-Ukraine War News Datasets, Israel-Hamas News Datasets, Global Inflation Dataset, US Elections News Dataset, India Elections 2024 News Dataset and FIFA WorldCup News Datasets.

Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as the TATA IPL, is a men’s T20 cricket league held every year. The League (IPL) was founded by BCCI in 2007 and has been taking place every summer since then. The IPL is the most popular cricket league in the world, with international cricketers actively taking part each year.

List of available, free datasets

There is an ocean of datasets available on the market. However, it is hard to find datasets that are available for free and match your preferences simultaneously. So, to ease the burden of carrying out a huge amount of research on free datasets, below is a list of free datasets for analysis.

1. IPL Men’s Cricket Matches Data (2008-2023)
Source: Kaggle
Author: UTKARSH TOMAR
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/utkarshtomar736/ipl-mens-cricket-matches-data-2008-2023
Description: This dataset includes detailed match information, player statistics, and more, making it a valuable resource for cricket enthusiasts, analysts, and data scientists.

2. IPL DATASET
Source: IEEE Dataport
Authors: Abhishek Koli, Deepali Javale, Mangesh Bharate, Nikhil Potnis, Bhavana Tiple
Link: https://ieee-dataport.org/documents/ipl-dataset
Description: It is a combination of statistics from various cricket information sources like cricbuzz, espncricinfo, etc. The dataset has records right from the originating year of the IPL,i.e., 2008, to the previous year, 2021.

3. Indian Premier League (IPL Cricket) till 2016
Source: DataWorld
Author: Raghunath
Publish Date: 2017
Link: https://data.world/raghu543/ipl-data-till-2016-set-of-csv-files
Description: IPL Cricket data Exported to CSV Files from Sql Server (577 matches up to season 9).

4. IPL Data Till 2017
Source: DataWorld
Author: Raghunath
Publish Date: 2018
Link: https://data.world/raghu543/ipl-data-till-2017
Description: Ball-by-ball data of all the IPL seasons (637 matches, including 2017) A Complete data warehouse.

5. IPL dataset (ball-by-ball dataset)
Source: Kaggle
Author: Shruti saxena
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shrutisaxena/ipl-dataset-ball-by-ball-dataset/code
Description: Ball-by-ball dataset of IPL seasons.

6. TVR of IPL 2018-2023
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Jun 27, 2023
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1388555/indian-premier-league-television-rating/
Description: Television rating (TVR) of Indian Premier League (IPL) from 2018 to 2023.

7. IPL  2021 Match Schedule
Source: Kaggle
Author: Kiran Sharma
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kdsharmaai/ipl-indian-premier-league-2021-match-schedule
Description: IPL (Indian Premier League) 2021 Cricket Match Full Schedule.

8. IPL SQLite Database
Source: Kaggle
Author: HarshVardhan
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/harsha547/ipldatabase/discussion
Description: This contains 577 matches, players & teams attributes for Indian Premier League Database.
9. Indian Premier League
Source: Hugging Face
Authors: Somya Gautam, Kondrolla Dinesh Reddy, Keshaw Soni
Publish Date: July 2022
Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/deepklarity/indian-premier-league
Description: This dataset contains information on all of the IPL (Indian Premier League) cricket matches.

10. IPL SQL Server Version
Source: Data World
Author: Harsha
Publish Date: 2016
Link: https://data.world/harsha547/ipl-sql-server-version
Description: Indian Premier League SQL Server Version.

11. IPL 2022
Source: B2find
Author: Polinati
Publish Date: 2023
Link: https://b2find.dkrz.de/dataset/61cfea9d-d185-5c90-9ae3-19efec683832
Description: The data were acquired through the manual collection of scores and statistics during the matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 based on the fantasy points system.

12. ‘IPL Auction and IPL dataset’ analyzed by Analyst-2
Source: Analyst 2
Author: Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com)
Link: https://analyst-2.ai/
Description: The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during March, April and May of every year by eight teams representing eight different cities in India.

13. Value of IPL 2014-2022
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Nov 2, 2023
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/987452/india-value-of-the-indian-premier-league/
Description: In 2022, the value of the Indian Premier League amounted to around 8.4 billion U.S. dollars. This was an increase compared to the pandemic years, signifying a swift recovery, catalyzed by the new media rights auction and two additional teams.

14. Indian Premier League sponsors 2023, by type
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Jun 13, 2023
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1390269/ipl-sponsors-by-type/
Description: The Indian Premier League’s title sponsor for 2022 and 2023 was Tata Group. They took over the bid from Vivo at a whopping 40.5 million U.S. dollars. Ceat, on the other hand, was the league’s official strategic timeout partner from 2015 to 2023 for 2.4 million dollars.

15. Revenue of selected teams from the Indian Premier League 2013–2015 seasons
Publish Date: May 9, 2016
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/630011/revenues-of-selected-ipl-teams/
Description: The statistic displays the revenue of selected teams in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the season 2013–14 and 2014–15. In season 2013–14, The Sun Risers Hyderabad generated just over one billion Indian rupees in revenue.

16. ‘IPL 2021 schedule’ analyzed by Analyst-2
Source: Analyst 2
Author: Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com)
Link: https://analyst-2.ai/
Description: Analysis of ‘IPL 2021 schedule’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved on September 30, 2021.

17. IPL Players Statistics
Source: Kaggle
Author: Mohammad Zama Khan
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mohammadzamakhan/ipl-players-statistics
Description: The IPL player statistic dataset provides a comprehensive set of performance metrics for players participating in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

18. IPL First Inning Scores
Source: Kaggle
Author: Masood Ahmed, Talha Turab
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/maso0dahmed/ipl-first-inning-scores
Description: This comprehensive dataset captures the essence of Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches by focusing on the first innings.

19. Indian Premier League broadcast rights value: 2023-2027
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Mar 20, 2024
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1169330/ipl-broadcast-rights-value/
Description: Broadcast rights value of Indian Premier League between 2023 and 2027, by type (in million Indian rupees).

20. Hero Indian Super League
Source: Data World
Author: Ajai Govind G
Link: https://data.world/ajaigovindg/hero-indian-super-league
Description: Data related to Hero Indian Super League, a men’s professional football league in India.

21. Indian Premier League’s expenditure FY 2017 by type
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1169605/ipl-expenditure-by-type/
Description: Expenditure of Indian Premier League in financial year 2017 by type (in million Indian rupees).

22. IPL_DataSet
Source: Kaggle
Author: Neural Nerd
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/adhoppin/ipl-dataset
Description: Dataset containing information regarding Indian Premier League in text format.

23. Indian Premier League (2008-2023): Orange Cap
Source: Kaggle
Author: Mohammad Imran Shaikh
Link: https://www.airtryai.uk/datasets/shikhnu/ipl2008-2023-orange-cap
Description: The dataset comprises players who have been able to bat for at least one inning during the period from 2008 to 2023. The dataset consists Year, Player, Mat, Inns, NO, Runs, HS, Avg, BF, SR, 100s, 50s, 4s and 6s.

24. Indian Premier League cumulative TV reach 2008–2017
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1169326/ipl-cumulative-tv-reach/
Description: Number of cumulative television viewers of Indian Premier League from 2008 to 2017 (in millions).

25. IPL Statistics
Source: Kaggle
Author: Amaan Ansari
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/amaanansari09/ipl-statistics
Description: This dataset consists of all the significant statistics in IPL to date. (this dataset follows all the statistics as shown by ESPN).

26. Marketer: user- User generated content
Source: Data Mendeley
Author: Shabana C
Publish Date: Sep 5, 2022
Link: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/wp5tcfnc5r/1
Description: 1880 Facebook posts (registering over 45 million impressions), shared over three continuous years by four cricket club brands from the Indian Premier League, the world’s leading inter-club cricket tournament.

27. Sources of revenue of the Indian Premier League teams 2015
Source: Statista
Author: Statista Research Department
Publish Date: Mar 30, 2016
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/629806/indian-premier-league-revenue-breakdown/
Description: Breakdown of the Indian Premier League teams’ revenue in 2015, by sources.

28. Indian Premier League 2008–2019
Source: Kaggle
Author: Navaneesh Kumar
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/nowke9/ipldata
Description: Ball-by-ball Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket dataset.

29. Indian Premier League cricket league revenue share by stream 2016
Source: Statista
Author: Statista Research Department
Publish Date: Sep 1, 2016
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/682431/ipl-revenue-share-by-stream/
Description: Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket teams revenue share by stream in 2016.

30. Indian Premier League playoff match ticket sales value 2016 by event
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleerythe Indian
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1169331/ipl-playoff-match-ticket-sales-value-by-event/
Description: Sales value of playoff matches in Indian Premier League in 2016 by event (in million Indian rupees).

31. IPL income FY 2017 by type
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1169598/ipl-income-by-type/
Description: Income of the IPL in the financial year 2017, by type (in million Indian rupees).

32. Premier League clubs with the most expensive season tickets 2023-2024
Source: Statista
Author: Statista Research Department
Publish Date: Jan 17, 2024
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/328654/premier-league-teams-ranked-by-most-expensive-season-ticket-price/
Description: Most expensive season tickets in the Premier League in 2023/24, by club (in GBP).

33. Television viewership of the IPL 10 in India 2017 by leading region
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/804780/india-tv-viewership-per-match-of-ipl-10-by-leading-region/
Description: Average television viewership of season 10 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in India, by leading region (in million impressions per match).

34. IPL ALL-TIME DATASET
Source: Kaggle
Author: Anurag
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/anuraglahon/ipl-indian-premier-league-all-time-dataset
Description: IPL Cricket Data Set.

35. Surplus income from IPL FY 2013–2017
Source: Statista
Author: Statista Research Department
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1169335/ipl-surplus-income/
Description: Surplus income from Indian Premier League from financial year 2013 to 2017 (in million Indian rupees).

36. IPL ball-by-ball
Source: Kaggle
Author: Rishi
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/littleraj30/indian-premier-league-2019-ball-by-ball
Description: The IPL is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during March, April and May of every year by eight teams representing eight different cities in India.

37. Indian Premier League (IPL)
Source: Kaggle
Author: Soumil Mukhopadhyay
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/soumilmukhopadhyay/indian-premier-leagueipl
Description: This dataset contains data related to the IPL.

38. TV viewership of the IPL 10 in India 2017 by leading matches
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/804793/india-tv-viewership-per-match-of-ipl-10-by-leading-matches/
Description: Television viewership of season 10 of the IPL in India by leading matches (in million impressions).

39. IPL data set
Source: Kaggle
Author: Meesala Sai Dhanush
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/meesalasaidhanush/indian-premier-leagueipl-data-set
Description: This dataset contains information and data related to the IPL.

40. Television viewership of the IPL 10 in India 2017 by week
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/804770/india-tv-viewership-of-season-10-of-the-ipl-by-week/
Description: Television viewership of season 10 of the IPL in India, by week (in million impressions).

41. Share of viewership of IPL by population between 22 and 30 years old in India 2016-2018
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/943923/india-viewership-share-of-ipl-by-people-between-22-30-years/
Description: Share of viewership of the IPL by population between 22 and 30 years old across India from 2016 to 2018.

42. Brand value of Mumbai Indians in IPL 2016-2022
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Jun 12, 2023
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/825722/india-brand-value-of-mumbai-indians-franchise-in-ipl/
Description: Brand value of Mumbai Indians in IPL from 2016 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars).

43. Unique TV viewers of IPL across India 2017, by season
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Aug 18, 2022
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/825753/india-unique-tv-viewers-of-ipl-by-season/
Description: Unique television viewers of IPL from 2008 to 2016, with an estimate for 2017 by season (in millions).

44. IPL 2008–2019
Source: Kaggle
Author: Navaneesh Kumar
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/nowke9/ipldata
Description: Ball-by-ball IPL cricket dataset.

45. Average player salary in the IPL 2019, by team
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Aug 18, 2022
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/675301/average-ipl-salary-by-team/
Description: Average annual player salary in the IPL in 2019 by team (in million U.S. dollars).

46. Share of viewership of IPL by population between 31 and 40 years old in India, 2016-2018
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/943924/india-viewership-share-of-ipl-by-people-between-31-40-years/
Description: Share of viewership of the IPL by population between 31 and 40 years old across India from 2016 to 2018.

47. Players who have conceded most runs in an innings in IPL India 2023
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Dec 20, 2023
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/822703/india-players-who-have-conceded-most-runs-in-an-innings-in-ipl/
Description: Players who have conceded most runs in an innings in the IPL as of December 2023.

48. IPL Auction and IPL dataset
Source: Kaggle
Author: Ankit Gupta
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/nkitgupta/ipl-auction-and-ipl-dataset
Description: The IPL is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during March, April and May of every year by eight teams representing eight different cities in India.

49. IPL: All-time statistics
Source: Kaggle
Author: Kanishk Jain
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kanishk307/ipl-indian-premier-league-all-time-statistics
Description: This a curated dataset from IPL’s official website to analyze them even further.

50. IPL Dataset
Source: Kaggle
Author: Ronald Davis
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ronu16/indian-premier-league-ipl-dataset/code
Description: Dataset contains ball-by-ball details of IPL 2019–2020 and ongoing 2021 seasons.

51. IPL 2023
Source: Kaggle
Author: Sudarshan Shinde
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/sudarshan6561/ipl-2023
Description: The TATA IPL 2023 Player Auction list features a total of 405 cricketers that are set to go under the hammer in Kochi. 80 players were bought by 10 teams from a total pool of 405 cricketers during the one-day mini-auction process.

52. Share of viewership of IPL India 2018 by gender
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 16, 2020
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/943907/india-viewership-share-of-ipl-by-gender/
Description: Share of viewership of the IPL across India in 2018, by gender.

53. IPL’s leading TV advertisers India 2023
Source: Statista
Author: Tanushree Basuroy
Publish Date: Jun 2, 2023
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1305450/ipl-leading-tv-advertisers/
Description: Leading television advertisers during IPL in 2023.

54. IPL 2020 Complete Data
Source: Kaggle
Author: Aritra Chakroborti
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/aritrachakraborti/ipl-2020-ball-by-ball-data
Description: Complete data of all IPL 2020 matches is provided in this space for data enthusiasts to aid their flair. The data will be refreshed after every match with the updates.

55. Total number of tweets and Facebook posts on IPL in India in 2017 by leading brands
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Dec 19, 2022
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/819284/india-total-number-of-tweets-and-facebook-posts-on-ipl-by-leading-brands/
Description: Total number of tweets and Facebook posts on the Indian Premier League 2017 across India by leading brands.

56. Social media video engagement in IPL across India in 2017 by leading brands
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Dec 19, 2022
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/819279/india-social-media-video-engagement-in-ipl-by-leading-brands/
Description: Total social media video engagement in the Indian Premier League 2017 across India by leading brands (in 1,000 engagements).

57. Number of brands advertised in the IPL 2016–2018
Source: Statista
Author: Tanushree Basuroy
Publish Date: Nov 1, 2021
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/947651/india-number-of-brands-advertised-in-ipl/
Description: Number of brands advertised in the IPL across India from 2016 to 2018.

58. Most popular sporting events among Indians 2021, by buzz index
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Jun 8, 2023
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1362936/most-popular-sporting-events-by-buzz-index-india/
Description: Most popular sporting events among Indians in 2021, by buzz index.

59. Chennai Super Kings expenses FY 2018-2023
Source: Statista
Author: Sandhya Keleery
Publish Date: Oct 5, 2023
Link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1169311/chennai-super-kings-expenses/
Description: Expenses of Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited from financial year 2018 to 2023 (in million Indian rupees).

60. IPL (Match Analysis)
Source: Kaggle
Author: Saurav Anand
Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/saurav9786/indian-premier-league-match-analysis/code
Description: IPL Match results of all seasons.

61. IPL data till 2017
Source: Data World
Author: Muhammad Khuzaima Umair
Link: https://data.world/mkhuzaima/ipl-data-till-2017
Description: This is the complete data of the IPL until 2017 (inclusive). Cleaned up for SSMS.

62. IPL All match Complete data
Source: Data World
Author: Vijayabhaskar J
Link: https://data.world/vijayabhaskar/ipl-all-match-complete-data
Description: Ball-by-ball details for all matches for all seasons.

63. IPL Captains
Source: Data World
Author: Gopikrishna Reddy
Publish Date: 2023
Link: https://data.world/gopikrishna2010/ipl-captains
Description: This Data set gives details about IPL Team Captains.

64. IPL DATA SET
Source: Data World
Author: Ashraf Pasha
Publish Date: 2024
Link: https://data.world/lokesh122/cricket-ipl-till-2019
Description: IPL dataset player stats.

Dataset Customization

Despite ample websites and data portals providing you with datasets related to Indian Premier League, you can’t always get a dataset that meets all the required criteria. For scenarios like this, there are providers like Newsdata.io and Datarade, who are leading providers of customized datasets.

You can request customized datasets on global inflation on Newsdata.io by following the given steps:

• Search for Data

You can now look for a number of articles on the topic of your choice and fetch data using the search bar, as shown below.

• Request News Data

You can request data by choosing the  ‘Request News Data’ option. You will then be redirected to a request form, as shown below.

NOTE: You can choose the ‘Download Sample’ option if you want an overview of how the data will be segregated into datasets.

Conclusion

With this, we come to an end to this week’s ‘Dataset of the Week’ blog. Make sure to check out our previously published blogs in ‘Dataset of the Week’ on Newsdata.io. I hope to see you again next week for yet another blog on trending topics.

Happy Minning!