Why NZ greats Devine and Tahuhu to retire after World Cup — Cricket Analysis Matters for Sports Data Engineers TL;DR : NZ greats Devine and Tahuhu to retire after World Cup. Full analysis, expert perspective, and what it means for Cricket fans. Latest Cricket news on SportsPo The Data Behind the Story Every major cricket event generates thousands of data points in real time — run rate, balls bowled, runs scored, and wickets. Most fans see the headline; data engineers see the underlying stream. Here is a minimal Python snippet to pull live cricket data: import requests def get_live_cricket_scores ( api_key : str ): resp = requests . get ( " https://api.cricapi.com/v1/currentMatches " , params = { " apikey " : api_key , " offset " : 0 } ) matches = resp . json (). get ( " data " , []) for m in matches : if m . get ( " matchStarted " ) and not m . get ( " matchEnded " ): print ( f " { m [ ' name ' ] } " ) print ( f " Score: { m . get ( ' score ' , ' N/A ' ) } " ) print ( f " Status: { m .…