Cricket Live Updates Platform Development

A cricket-focused web and mobile application was built for users who want to follow live matches, scores, commentary, news, reels, and match updates from one place.

The platform was designed for cricket fans who need fast match information, clean score data, and regular content updates across both web and mobile experiences.

The main challenge was managing live cricket data efficiently without overusing the external sports API limit.

The system also needed to support multiple content sources, including live match data from Sportmonks and editorial content such as news and reels from WordPress. Along with that, an internal dashboard was required so the team could manage matches, manually add match data, and control important cricket-related information.

The backend was built using Node and Express to handle authentication, authorization, API communication, and data preparation for both the frontend and mobile app.

Sportmonks was integrated as the external sports data provider. Instead of sending every user request directly to Sportmonks, the backend processes the data, cleans it, and caches requests in Redis. This helped reduce repeated API calls, protect the usage limit, and improve response speed.

WordPress was used as the CMS for managing news and reels. This allowed the content team to publish cricket updates without needing access to the main application dashboard or backend system.

A separate React dashboard was created to manage operational data related to matches.

The dashboard helps the team manage:

Match records

Manual match addition

Match-related data

Internal cricket data management

Content and data coordination between the app and backend

News and reels are managed through WordPress, keeping editorial content separate from match operations.

Live cricket score updates

Text and voice commentary support

Live match stream access

Cricket news and reels

Web and mobile app experience

User authentication and authorization

Manual match management through dashboard

WordPress-based content publishing

Clean sports data served from backend

Redis caching to reduce external API usage

Backend: Node and Express

Database: PostgreSQL and Redis

Frontend: React

Mobile App: React Native

Dashboard: React

CMS: WordPress

External Sports API: Sportmonks

The final product was a complete cricket platform with web, mobile, dashboard, and CMS support.

The architecture made it possible to serve live cricket data efficiently, manage content through WordPress, control match information from a custom dashboard, and reduce unnecessary Sportmonks API calls through Redis caching.