Cricket

You can access all of the cricket rule books below from a shared Google drive folder. For any issues, please contact me at my email in the footer. Thanks to Alan Rees from the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's for help and advice in the archival process, and for facilitating my visit to curate the data.

Each folder contains the raw scanned images, as well as a searchable pdf over all images, and individual text files corresponding to the laws for an individual year. There are some exceptions to this format, but it is generally true. This data set composes all cricket rule books housed by the MCC from 1744-present (280 years!)

Feel free to use these, and if you do please cite the website and give us attribution. Recommended citations are provided in the README below. Reproduced by kind permission of Marylebone Cricket Club. For the most recent online edition of the laws please refer to https://www.lords.org/mcc/the-laws-of-cricket.