About this site
Why it exists
Working out where a match is being shown is normally a matter of opening four different articles and hoping one of them is current. Search results for this are full of pages that list a channel without saying where they got it, and many of them are simply wrong once a rights deal changes. A fixture says India v Australia, but whether you can watch it depends on which board is hosting, which competition it is, and which country you are in.
This site shows that reasoning instead of hiding it. Every listing names the rule that decided it and links the source that rule rests on, so you can check the answer yourself rather than take it on trust.
Where the fixtures come from
Match fixtures are read from Cricbuzz's public schedule. The site takes the teams, the competition, the venue, the format and the start time from there, and links back to the source page for each match. It does not reproduce Cricbuzz's text or take their scores; the fixtures are the scaffolding the rights answers hang on.
Fixtures for a completed match drop off the list once the match has started and finished, so the page shows what is still to come or running now rather than a growing archive.
Where the channel answers come from
Broadcast rights are the part that actually needs care, and they are hand-maintained rather than scraped. There are currently 90 rights rules covering the five regions this site serves (India, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States), resting on 94 distinct sources. Every one of the 90 rules carries a date on which it was last checked by hand (all of them do).
A rule describes a category of match, not an individual fixture. "India home internationals are on Star Sports" is one rule that covers a season of matches, and it carries the source and the date it was verified. A match is matched to the most specific rule that fits it, so a South Africa home series uses the South Africa rule rather than a general one.
What a source link proves, and what it does not
Each rule's source is a report, a broadcaster announcement or a board listing that states the rights for that category of match. If a claim in a rule cannot be traced to one of that rule's own sources, the claimed channel is removed rather than kept on the assumption that it is probably right.
This matters more than it sounds. A streaming platform was listed for India on the South Africa rows because it seemed likely that a broadcaster's feed would also appear there. It was never in either cited source, and it was wrong. That claim is gone, and there is now an automated check whose only job is to reject a channel that the rule's own sources do not name.
Some fields are deliberately left empty. Where sources disagree, or where only a television deal is documented and no streaming partner is named, the site prints nothing rather than a guess. An empty field is an honest answer; a plausible one is not.
How it stays current, and what happens when it does not
The schedule is rebuilt and republished automatically. After each rebuild, a sequence of checks has to pass before anything is published:
- the rights rules tests, which pin the expected answer for known fixtures;
- the page's own rendering invariants;
- a source audit, which fails if a cited page has gone dead or its date is too old to justify the claim;
- a claim check, which fails if a rule names a channel that its own sources do not mention;
- the typecheck and the build.
If any check fails, the refreshed data is not published. A rebuild that cannot prove its claims is worse than an older one that can.
Dates on the page are shown in IST. The date you are reading is worked out in your browser at the moment you open the page, not frozen into the data when it was generated, so the "Today" filter means today even if the last rebuild was several hours ago.
What this site does not do
- It does not stream anything, and it does not host or link pirated feeds.
- It does not carry live scores or commentary.
- It does not require an account, and it has no sign-up or contact form.
- It does not use an AI model to write or change the rights data. The checks that guard the data are deterministic, so when one fails it fails for a reason a person can read.
Corrections
If a channel listed here is wrong, or a match is missing, that is worth knowing. Rights change between seasons and a deal can be re-signed without much coverage, so a correction is genuinely useful rather than an imposition. Write to 133hobart@gmail.com, ideally with the match and a link to something that states the rights.