# Cricket Blog: Winners, Records and How We Count Them Source: https://cricketin.org/blog 18+ Betting money on cricket carries a direct risk of financial loss, and it can become an addiction. Real-money online gaming is banned across India under the PROG Act 2025, which came into force on 1 May 2026. If betting is already costing you money you need, or sleep, or people close to you, the free Tele-MANAS helpline is **14416**, and it runs in 20 languages. Our [page on help for gambling harm](/guides/help-for-gambling-harm-india) lists what else exists. --- Every article here is built from the open ball-by-ball archive: we parse the match files ourselves, publish a table only when the season is complete, and say so plainly when the record has a gap. ## Every champion, league by league Winners lists for nine competitions. Every final is counted from the ball-by-ball record rather than copied from another site, and each page says which seasons the open archive cannot cover. September 2, 2026 10 min read ### [What the Aviator Game Is and How a Round Is Played](/blog/what-is-aviator-game) How a round of Aviator works, what the public record actually says about who makes it, and why the release date and RTP repeated everywhere are not on this page. By Rajeev Sathe September 2, 2026 10 min read ### [WPL Winners List: Every Champion from 2023 to 2026](/blog/wpl-winners) Every WPL champion from 2023 to 2026 with the runner-up and margin. Delhi Capitals have played all four finals and lost every one. By Anjali Deshmukh September 2, 2026 9 min read ### [The Hundred Winners: Every Champion from 2021 to 2026](/blog/the-hundred-winners) Every winner of The Hundred with the runner-up and margin, read from the ball-by-ball record of all six finals at Lord's, and why three clubs changed name in 2026. By Anjali Deshmukh September 2, 2026 9 min read ### [T20 World Cup Winners: Every Champion from 2007 to 2026](/blog/t20-world-cup-winners) Every T20 World Cup champion with the runner-up, margin and venue, read from the ball-by-ball record of all ten finals. India lead with three titles. By Karthik Iyengar September 2, 2026 9 min read ### [SA20 Winners: Every Champion from 2023 to 2026](/blog/sa20-winners) Every SA20 champion with the runner-up and margin from all four finals, plus how many of the league's players also appeared in the IPL. By Anjali Deshmukh September 2, 2026 11 min read ### [PSL Winners List: Every Champion from 2016 to 2026](/blog/psl-winners) Every PSL champion from 2016 to 2026 with the runner-up, the margin and the venue, read from the ball-by-ball record of eleven Pakistan Super League finals. By Anjali Deshmukh September 2, 2026 12 min read ### [Is the Aviator Game Fair? Provably Fair and RTP Explained](/blog/is-aviator-game-fair) What provably fair actually proves, what RTP means for your money, and why no cash-out strategy changes the expected return of a crash game. By Nikhil Varma September 2, 2026 10 min read ### [IPL Winners List: Every Champion from 2008 to 2026](/blog/ipl-winners-list) Every IPL champion from 2008 to 2026 with the runner-up and the winning margin, read from the ball-by-ball record of all nineteen finals. By Karthik Iyengar September 2, 2026 10 min read ### [ILT20 Winners: Every Champion from 2023 to 2026](/blog/ilt20-winners) Every ILT20 champion from 2023 to 2026 with the runner-up, the margin and the venue. Four seasons, four different winners, read from the record of each final. By Anjali Deshmukh September 2, 2026 9 min read ### [How Teams Qualify for the Playoffs: Reading a T20 Table](/blog/how-teams-qualify-for-playoffs) Points, the net run rate tie-break and the playoff bracket, checked against 40 complete tables: how a T20 league table decides who goes through. By Karthik Iyengar September 2, 2026 10 min read ### [Does Topping the Points Table Win the Title?](/blog/points-table-leader-vs-champion) We counted 40 complete league tables: the leader won the title 18 times. But the top two have won 34 of 40, and no champion has come from lower than fourth. By Karthik Iyengar September 2, 2026 9 min read ### [CPL Winners: Every Champion from 2013 to 2025](/blog/cpl-winners) Every Caribbean Premier League champion from 2013 to 2025 with the runner-up and the winning margin, read from the ball-by-ball record of all thirteen finals. By Karthik Iyengar September 2, 2026 9 min read ### [Best and Worst Net Run Rates in 286 Team Seasons](/blog/best-and-worst-nrr-seasons) The ten highest and ten lowest net run rates in our published tables, and why the records nearly all come from the shortest seasons. By Anjali Deshmukh September 2, 2026 10 min read ### [BBL Winners List: Every Big Bash Champion from 2011 to 2026](/blog/big-bash-league-winners) Every Big Bash League champion with the runner-up, margin and venue, read from the ball-by-ball record of all fifteen finals. Perth Scorchers lead with six titles. By Karthik Iyengar ## Who writes this blog Every article here is written by a named editor and checked by a second one before it goes out. Nothing is copied from a league summary: each number is recalculated from the open ball-by-ball archive, and where the archive has a gap the page says so instead of filling it. That rule is why some seasons have a champion here but no points table. A champion comes from a single match, and the archive nearly always holds finals. A table needs every match of the season, and when one is missing we leave the table out rather than publish a standing we cannot stand behind. The people behind the bylines are listed on our [editorial team](/authors) page, and the standards they work to are in our [editorial policy](/editorial-policy). ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Where do the numbers on this blog come from? Every table here is recalculated from the open ball-by-ball archive published by [Cricsheet](https://cricsheet.org/) under the Open Data Commons Attribution License, not copied from a league summary or another site. Each page names the person who wrote it and the person who checked it. ### Why does a season have a champion here but no points table? Because the two need different amounts of data. A champion comes from a single match, and the archive nearly always holds finals. A table needs every match of the season, and when one is missing we leave the table out rather than publish a standing we cannot stand behind. ### How often is this updated? Match data refreshes on a schedule rather than ball by ball, and every page carries a Last checked date so you can see when a human last verified it. Where a season is still in progress, the page says which matches the archive covers so far. ### Why are there no bookmaker or app links here? Real-money online gaming is banned in India under the PROG Act 2025, and Section 6 prohibits advertising it directly or indirectly. This site names no operator, ranks none and links to none. What it explains is how the games and the maths work. ### I found a mistake. How do I report it? Through the contact routes listed on our [contact page](/contact). Confirmed errors go into the public [corrections log](/corrections) with the date and what changed, rather than being edited away quietly.