Cricinfo

Cricinfo is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features live coverage of cricket matches containing ball-by-ball commentary and a database for all the historic matches. The site also provides news and articles about cricket.

Features

We will focus on the following set of requirements while designing Cricinfo:

1. The system should keep track of all cricket-playing teams and their matches.

2. The system should show live ball-by-ball commentary of cricket matches.

3. All international cricket rules should be followed.

4. Any team playing a tournament will announce a squad (a set of players) for the tournament.

5. For each match, both teams will announce their playing-eleven from the tournament squad.

6. The system should be able to record stats about players, matches, and tournaments.

7. The system should be able to answer global stats queries like, “Who is the highest wicket taker of all time?”, “Who has scored maximum numbers of 100s in test matches?”, etc.

8. The system should keep track of all ODI, Test and T20 matches.

Rough Solution (LLD-Machine Coding)

Basic Entity

• Admin: An Admin will be able to add/modify players, teams, tournaments, and matches, and will also record ball-by-ball details of each match.
• Commentator: Commentators will be responsible for adding ball-by-ball commentary for matches.

Final Code

public class Address {
  private String streetAddress;
  private String city;
  private String state;
  private String zipCode;
  private String country;
}

public class Person {
  private String name;
  private Address address;
  private String email;
  private String phone;
}

public enum MatchFormat {
  ODI,
  T20,
  TEST
}

public enum MatchResult {
  LIVE,
  FINISHED,
  DRAWN,
  CANCELED
}

public enum UmpireType {
  FIELD,
  RESERVED,
  TV
}

public enum WicketType {
  BOLD,
  CAUGHT,
  STUMPED,
  RUN_OUT,
  LBW,
  RETIRED_HURT,
  HIT_WICKET,
  OBSTRUCTING
}

public enum BallType {
  NORMAL,
  WIDE,
  WICKET,
  NO_BALL
}

public enum RunType {
  NORMAL,
  FOUR,
  SIX,
  LEG_BYE,
  BYE,
  NO_BALL,
  OVERTHROW
}

// For simplicity, we are not defining getter and setter functions. The reader can
// assume that all class attributes are private and accessed through their respective
// public getter method and modified only through their public setter method.

public class Player {
  private Person person;
  private ArrayList<PlayerContract> contracts;

  public boolean addContract();
}

public class Admin {
  private Person person;

  public boolean addMatch(Match match);

  public boolean addTeam(Team team);

  public boolean addTournament(Tournament tournament);
}

public class Umpire {
  private Person person;

  public boolean assignMatch(Match match);
}

public class Referee {
  private Person person;

  public boolean assignMatch(Match match);
}

public class Commentator {
  private Person person;

  public boolean assignMatch(Match match);
}

public class Team {
  private String name;
  private List<Player> players;
  private List<News> news;
  private Coach coach;

  public boolean addTournamentSquad(TournamentSquad tournamentSquad);
  public boolean addPlayer(Player player);
  public boolean addNews(News news);
}

public class TournamentSquad {
  private List<Player> players;
  private List<TournamentStat> tournamentStats;

  public boolean addPlayer(Player player);
}

public class Playing11 {
  private List<Player> players;
  private Player twelfthMan;

  public boolean addPlayer(Player player);
}

public class Over {
  private int number;
  private List<Ball> balls;

  public boolean addBall(Ball ball);
}

public class Ball {
  private Player balledBy;
  private Player playedBy;
  private BallType type;

  private Wicket wicket;
  private List<Run> runs;
  private Commentary commentary;

}

public class Wicket {
  private WicketType wicketType;
  private Player playerOut;
  private Player caughtBy;
  private Player runoutBy;
  private Player stumpedBy;
}

public class Commentary {
  private String text;
  private Date createdAt;
  private Commentator createdBy;
}

public class Inning {
  private int number;
  private Date startTime;
  private List<Over> overs;

  public boolean addOver(Over over);
}

public abstract class Match {
  private int number;
  private Date startTime;
  private MatchResult result;

  private Playing11[] teams;
  private List<Inning> innings;
  private List<Umpire> umpires;
  private Referee referee;
  private List<Commentator> commentators;
  private List<MatchStat> matchStats;

  public boolean assignStadium(Stadium stadium);

  public boolean assignReferee(Referee referee);
}

public class ODI extends Match {
  //...
}

public class Test extends Match {
  //...
}