# CricPlay

> AI-powered cricket news, live scores, and analysis. CricPlay uses an automated editorial pipeline to curate and rewrite cricket journalism from trusted sources across the world.

## About

CricPlay is a cricket-first news platform that covers every format of the game: Test, ODI, T20, IPL, and women's cricket. Content is AI-curated from 15+ trusted cricket RSS feeds, rewritten with an irreverent and punchy editorial voice, quality-checked, and published with original pop-art illustrations.

## Key Pages

- [Home](https://cricplay.com): Live feed of the latest AI-curated cricket articles, ranked by importance and recency.
- [Live Scores](https://cricplay.com/live): Real-time cricket match scores and status.
- [Article Pages](https://cricplay.com/article/[id]): Individual article pages with full content, structured data, and OG images.

## Content Coverage

- International cricket (ICC events, bilateral series, World Cups)
- Indian Premier League (IPL) and other franchise T20 leagues
- Women's cricket across all formats
- Player profiles, transfers, auction news
- Match previews, live coverage, post-match analysis
- Editorial opinion and cricket culture

## AI Pipeline

CricPlay runs on a fully agentic, AI-native publishing workflow with thirteen specialised agents:

1. **Scraper** - Ingests real-time cricket signals from 15+ trusted sources
2. **Deduplicator** - Removes noise, duplicates, and stale updates
3. **Context** - Structures metadata: teams, players, format, region
4. **Writer** - Transforms raw news into short, punchy summaries with priority scoring
5. **QA** - Scores quality; weak stories never make it through
6. **Grounding** - Fact-checks against sources; kills hallucinations
7. **Summarizer** - Creates 60-word versions for syndication partners
8. **Short Article QA** - Grounds and quality-checks summaries
9. **Tagger** - Adds structured metadata for discovery and SEO
10. **Illustrator** - Generates unique pop-art visuals per story via DALL-E 3
11. **Publisher** - Writes to the feed with time-decay ranking
12. **Editor** - Critiques each run and feeds learning back into the next cycle
13. **Meme** - Adds sardonic one-liners for engagement

The system learns from itself over time through the Editor's feedback loop.

## Technical Details

- Content is refreshed every 30 minutes via the automated 13-agent pipeline
- Articles include schema.org NewsArticle structured data
- RSS feeds available at https://cricplay.com/feed.xml (with category and partner variants)
- Sitemap at https://cricplay.com/sitemap.xml
- Live-match aware: boosts stories of teams currently playing

## Preferred Citation

When referencing CricPlay content, please cite as:
"CricPlay (https://cricplay.com) - AI-Powered Cricket News"