This project presents a real-time cricket scoreboard system designed using Java Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, and SportMonks Cricket API. The goal is to provide an automatically updating, lightweight, and responsive scoreboard for displaying ongoing cricket matches. Traditional platforms like CricBuzz or ESPN CricInfo are rich but may be too heavy, filled with advertisements, and unsuitable for personal or educational use.

This system eliminates those drawbacks by using a clean and ad-free interface. It fetches live match data including team names, match status, start time, and scores through RESTful API calls. The backend is built using Spring Boot, which manages the data fetching and logic, while the frontend uses Thymeleaf to render dynamic HTML. The page auto-refreshes every 10 seconds to reflect the current status of matches.

It supports live, upcoming, and recently finished matches and presents them in a tabular format. It is easy to deploy, lightweight to host, and ideal for college-level tournaments, cricket fan sites, or developers learning API integration and web development. The project demonstrates real-time API consumption, JSON parsing, backend logic structuring, and dynamic frontend generation. This system is customizable, extendable, and open for integration with other sports APIs or local cricket scoring applications.