From the Champions Trophy to the Women's T20 World Cup — a look back at how our data infrastructure powered some of the biggest cricket events of 2025.
2025 was the busiest year in Kadamba's history. Across twelve months, our systems handled data for four ICC events, two IPL seasons, the Pro Kabaddi League playoffs, and multiple bilateral series across six countries. Here is a brief account of what that looked like.
Champions Trophy
The Champions Trophy in February was the first time our third-generation data platform ran live at a major ICC event. The migration from our previous infrastructure had been completed just six weeks earlier — not much margin. The platform processed over 2.4 million ball events across the tournament without a significant outage.
Women's T20 World Cup
The Women's T20 World Cup was a different challenge — not in technical scale, but in editorial scope. Our editorial team produced pre-match statistical briefings for broadcasters across fourteen matches, covering player form, head-to-head records, and situational analytics. The feedback from commentary teams was that these briefings changed the quality of on-air analysis.
What We Learned
The most important operational lesson from 2025 was about redundancy. Our primary data ingestion pipeline failed for approximately eleven minutes during a group stage match in April. Because of layered redundancy systems, the public-facing data was unaffected. But the internal systems team lived through eleven very unpleasant minutes.
We have rebuilt those redundancy layers since. The architecture is now substantially more resilient. That resilience will be tested in 2026 — we are already confirmed for five ICC events and multiple franchise tournaments across Asia and the Caribbean.