Cricbuzz - Live Cricket Scores

Review by eFreeware

Cricbuzz is a free cricket app from Cricbuzz.com, and it has been part of how a lot of people follow the sport for years. Now branded Willow by Cricbuzz, the app pairs live streaming with the scores and news it has long carried. If you follow cricket seriously, this is the sort of app you would try first.

The scale is hard to ignore. More than 100 million installs and a 3.9 average from over 3.1 million ratings point to an enormous audience and a broadly positive, if not flawless, reception. It is free to install and supported by ads, with no in-app purchases, so the whole feature set sits behind the same entry point.

Scores, commentary and the matchday feed

The core of the app is following a match as it happens. The developer promises fast scores and ball-by-ball commentary, and describes the commentary as engaging and entertaining rather than a dry sequence of events. For anyone who cannot watch a game but wants to know where it stands, that combination of a running score and a written feed is the main draw.

Notifications cover live matches and breaking news, so you can let the app tell you when something happens instead of checking it yourself. Schedules of upcoming matches sit alongside that, which matters in a sport where fixtures come in dense clusters and it is easy to lose track of when a series starts. The recent update also adds curated posts from X in the match feed, which puts reaction and updates next to the score itself.

Rankings, stats and records round out the reference side. These are the sections you dip into when you want context rather than a result: where a player sits in a table, how a team has performed over a stretch, what a record actually is. None of it is unusual for a cricket app, but having it in the same place as the live score is what makes the app convenient to keep installed.

Streaming, and how far the coverage reaches

The significant shift here is live streaming in Full HD. The developer lists TATA IPL and the ICC T20 World Cup at the top of that offer, along with India home tours against Australia, New Zealand and Bangladesh, Australia home tours including the Ashes, England home tours, the Big Bash leagues, the PSL and the BPL. That is a broad slate of competitions, and it turns the app from a score tracker into somewhere you might actually watch a match.

Beyond those headline properties, the app covers international cricket extensively, with the IPL, BBL, CPL, Natwest T20 Blast and other major tournaments, plus a large amount of domestic cricket. Special sections appear for major events such as the ICC Cricket World Cup, the T20 World Cup, the Champions Trophy and the IPL, which suggests the app reorganizes itself around the biggest competitions rather than treating them as ordinary fixtures.

There is exclusive video content as well, and the recent notes mention an improved Auction Tracker built around the SA20 auction. That is a small detail but a telling one: it is the kind of feature aimed at people who follow the sport between matches, not only during them. News and editorials fill the same role, giving you something to read when no game is on.

Permissions you agree to when you install it

The app may request three permissions. Storage keeps things like images on the device, which reduces data usage and helps the app stay quick. Accounts access is used to fill in your Gmail address when you send feedback. Location tailors content in sections such as matches, videos and news on the home screen, and is also used for advertising.

That last point is worth reading carefully if you are particular about what you share. The app is free and ad-supported, and location feeds into how those ads work as well as how content is chosen. The free, ad-supported model is the one on offer.

The app is rated for Everyone and has been available since February 2011, with an update dated October 1, 2026. That long history shows in the breadth of the coverage rather than in any single feature, and it is the reason the app can serve both someone who checks a score twice a day and someone who follows domestic leagues closely.

Who gets the most from it

This suits cricket followers who want one app for the whole sport rather than several. If your interest runs across international series, the IPL and the bigger T20 leagues, the combination of live streaming, scores, commentary and news in a single free app is hard to match, and the coverage of domestic cricket means you are not limited to the marquee fixtures.

It also works for people who follow results more than they watch them. Notifications, schedules, rankings and stats are all built for keeping up without sitting through a match. The auction tracking and editorial content extend that to the quieter periods of the calendar, when there is plenty of cricket news and no live game to watch.

The trade-off is the ad-supported model and the permissions that come with it, including location used for advertising. For most followers, though, the breadth of competitions and the fact that streaming now sits inside the same app will outweigh that.

A free hub for following the whole season

Cricbuzz stands out by covering more of cricket than most people can follow on their own. Live streaming for the IPL, World Cup and a long list of home tours and leagues, paired with ball-by-ball commentary, notifications, news, schedules and statistics, makes it a genuine all-in-one app rather than a score widget with extras. The 3.9 average from more than 3.1 million ratings suggests a large audience that is broadly satisfied, even if it is not unanimous.

I would point anyone who follows cricket regularly toward it, particularly if your interest spans international cricket and the major T20 leagues. The free, ad-supported model and the location permission used for advertising are the things to weigh before installing; if those are acceptable, the range of coverage is the strongest argument for keeping it on your phone through the season.

What's new in version 16.11.00

- Find curated posts from X (formerly Twitter) in your match feed. - An improved Auction Tracker, just in time for the upcoming SA20 auction. - Bug Fixes and Enhancements