Midfield is a results and scorecard archive. We keep a record of matches — who played, where, what the score was, and how it finished — and we try to keep that record accurate for as far back as the data allows.
Most sports sites are built around the next fixture. That has its place, but it leaves a gap: once a match is a week old, it becomes surprisingly hard to find out what actually happened in it. A scoreline survives. The scorecard, the venue, the margin, the context of the series it belonged to — those tend to disappear behind a paywall or into a page that was never meant to be read twice. We are trying to be the place where that information stays put.
What we cover
Cricket is the bulk of it. The archive runs from the earliest recorded matches through to fixtures completed this week, across Test, ODI, T20, T10, The Hundred and List A cricket, in the men's and women's game alike. That includes international cricket, domestic first-class competitions, and the franchise leagues.
Football coverage is being built out alongside it, on the same principles and in the same structure.
Beyond individual matches, the archive is organised the way people actually look for things: by team, by tournament, by season, by format, and by date. A tournament page collects every edition of that competition with its champions, its finalists and its record-holders. A date page collects everything that finished on a given day. If you can describe the match you are looking for, there is usually a page that has it.
Where the data comes from
Match records are assembled from public sources and cross-checked against each other before they are published. Ball-by-ball scorecards for cricket come from Cricsheet, an open project that has done more for the availability of structured cricket data than anything else we are aware of. Squad and tournament reference material comes from public encyclopaedic sources. Live and recent results come from licensed sports data feeds.
We are open about this because the alternative is worse. A site that will not say where its numbers came from is asking to be trusted on nothing, and readers who follow sport closely can usually tell when a figure has been invented to fill a gap.
What we get wrong
Historical sports data is messy. Names are spelled three ways, a team changes what it is called mid-decade, a match is recorded under a competition that did not exist yet, and a date arrives as a year with no month attached to it. We fix what we find, and we would rather show a field as unknown than fill it with a confident guess.
If you spot something wrong, tell us. Corrections are the cheapest improvement available to an archive like this one, and a reader who knows a competition well will always catch things a database check cannot. Our editorial policy explains how we handle them, and the contact page is the fastest way to reach someone.
Who we are
Midfield is independently owned and operated. It is not part of a larger media group, it is not funded by a club, a league or a governing body, and nobody pays for favourable coverage. The site is supported by advertising, which is separated from the editorial side — the terms of that separation are set out in the editorial policy.
The team is small. That is a limitation on how much ground we can cover and an advantage in how quickly we can fix something once we know about it.