Adopted by the founding council.
Reviewed annually.
On the purpose
of this registry.
CRIB exists to make Indian cricket talent visible, verified, and comparable.
§ Preamble
India produces more competitive young cricketers than any country in the world. They train in over four thousand private academies, across twenty-eight states, in more than a dozen languages.
They play matches that are never recorded, against opposition that is never benchmarked, scored by methods that vary from one ground to the next. They are watched by coaches whose qualifications are taken on faith, trained by physios whose credentials are seldom checked, and rated, when they are rated at all, by people who have never seen them play.
This is not a failure of talent. It is a failure of infrastructure. The official BCCI pathway — district to state to zone to nation — is the most successful talent system in world cricket. But its inputs are limited to what state associations can see. Everything below that line is essentially invisible. CRIB is the layer that ends that invisibility.
§ I. What we are
A national registry. Every academy that registers becomes part of a single, queryable database. Every player on the registry has a verified profile: age, role, physical metrics, match record, video. Every support professional — physiotherapist, S&C coach, performance analyst, sports psychologist — is listed with credentials that have been checked.
We do not run tournaments. We do not select players for any team. We do not represent agents. We record, verify, and rank.
§ II. What we believe
Verification is the product.
Self-reported numbers are not data. Every metric on CRIB is captured under a documented protocol — by an accredited combine, by a verified match official, or by an academy whose own credentials we have audited. An unverified profile is marked as such. The mark is permanent until verification is completed.
A common scale, or none at all.
A bowling speed measured by an academy radar in Bhopal must mean the same thing as a bowling speed measured by an academy radar in Pune. Standardising measurement is harder than building software, and it is the work that matters. The CRIB Combine Protocol defines the only readings that enter the index.
Visibility is a right, not a favour.
A talented player in a small academy in a small town should not need a connection, a viral video, or a wealthy parent to be considered. The registry is open by default. Discoverable by every accredited scout, every registered franchise, and every state selector — on the same terms.
Minors require special care.
Every profile on CRIB belonging to a player under eighteen is governed by stricter consent, narrower data sharing, and the verifiable approval of a parent or guardian. We comply with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and treat its provisions as a floor, not a ceiling.
§ III. Who we serve
- →Academies that want their players to be considered on merit beyond their geography.
- →Players who want a record of who they were, what they did, and how they ranked, from their first season onward.
- →Coaches, physios, analysts and sports doctors who want a professional pathway into the cricket economy.
- →Franchises, selectors, and scouts who want to make decisions on a wider, more reliable base of evidence than they have today.
§ IV. What we will not do
CRIB will not sell player data to third parties.
CRIB will not publish health or injury information without explicit consent.
CRIB will not assign rankings on the basis of factors a player cannot control — caste, religion, language, family background, or city of birth among them.
CRIB will not operate in any jurisdiction where doing so would compromise the safety, privacy, or sporting rights of the people on the registry.
CRIB will not represent players, negotiate contracts, or function as an agent.
§ V. Our relationship with the BCCI pathway
The Board of Control for Cricket in India operates the most successful talent identification pipeline in the cricketing world. CRIB is built in service of that pipeline, not in competition with it. We see our function as the systematic registration and verification of talent below the state-association level — the part of the pyramid the official pathway is least equipped to monitor.
Where state associations, the National Cricket Academy, or the Board itself wish to access, audit, or integrate the registry, we will provide that access. The data on CRIB is, in the end, a public good. The registry is the means.