UNBELIEVABLE!!! The story of India v England NatWest Final available on Video and DVD
30 Aug 2002
It was one of the most remarkable one-day cricket matches ever. With over 650 runs scored and a team facing almost certain defeat, coming back to take an historic victory. Many spectators on the day could only utter the words "UNBELIEVABLE!!!". Now courtesy of Fremantle Home Entertainment comes the release which is sure to put a smile on the face of all Indian cricket fans as they can bear witness to one of their team’s most heroic sporting efforts. [More]

CricInfo teams up with Ufone to deliver mobile phone service for cricket fans in Pakistan
10 Jul 2002
Lahore, July 10, 2002 - CricInfo.com, the home of cricket on the Internet, today announced an agreement with Ufone, Pakistan's premier GSM mobile phone service provider for a comprehensive range of live mobile phone cricket content. With signing of the agreement Ufone will be able to offer a number of new and innovative cricket related services to its subscribers via various mobile media in Pakistan. [More]

CricInfo offers premiere global cricket content for RealNetworks' RealOne Superpass
19 Jun 2002
LONDON, June 19, 2002 - CricInfo.com, the home of cricket on the Internet, today announced an agreement with RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), the global leader in Internet media delivery, to offer premium cricket content for its newly launched European English RealOne SuperPass subscription service, the first offering of its kind to bring the best online news, sport and entertainment programming to consumers outside of North America. [More]

CricInfo signs with TradingSports to enter the global P2P betting marketplace
27 May 2002
From 30th May 2002, CricInfo, the world’s largest single sport website will enable its users to place person-to-person, in-running bets on all major cricket games in the 2002-2003 cricket seasons, thanks to an exclusive deal with TradingSports, the leading ‘white label’ person-to-person betting exchange. [More]

CricInfo to launch site for Norwich Union League
9 May 2002
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket website, is to launch a microsite dedicated to the Norwich Union League. The new site, www.nul.cricinfo.com, will provide a wealth of Norwich Union League content to CricInfo's 3.5 million UK users throughout the 2002 season. [More]

Hitwise confirms CricInfo as UK's favourite cricket site
18 Apr 2002
New figures released by Hitwise UK, the comparative online measurement tool, confirm CricInfo’s dominance of the UK online cricket market. As the new English season begins, the figures for March 2002 show that CricInfo recorded 78.3% of all page views on cricket sites by UK internet users. [More]

CricInfo launches new homepage design
27 Mar 2002
CricInfo today annnounces the launch of a new homepage design. The new design is the first significant change of Cricinfo’s homepage for four years. The new homepage is part of a series of site improvements CricInfo is making which started with redesigned CricInfo West Indies and CricInfo South African sub sites two weeks ago and the creation of a betting sub site. Further improvements will include a redesign of the majority of pages on the site including new sections for competitions, travel, equipment and book reviews. [More]

Phil Tufnell to be CricInfo's Tipster columnist
27 Feb 2002
Middlesex and England spinner Phil Tufnell has launched a new column on CricInfo.com, the world's most popular cricket website. Tufnell's Tips will run fortnightly, and will be a fun tipster guide to forthcoming cricket. The column, which forms part of an advertising and online marketing deal with Paragon Sports Management, will promote CricInfo's partnership with bet365. [More]

Results of "All Time Pakistan XI" BT survey announced
21 Feb 2002
Pakistan cricket fans in the UK have spoken - and they have spoken in vast numbers. The CricInfo.com survey, sponsored by BT Talk and Surf Together, aimed to establish the best-ever Pakistan XI. More than 10,000 votes were cast, resulting in a clear-cut selection for the first XI. When you consider the wealth of talent available for selection, it is perhaps surprising that there was such a clear-cut choice. These polls tend to go in favour of the modern player, but there is an interesting mix of the old and new in the final selection to illustrate how knowledgeable an audience it was who took part in the survey. [More..]

Lahore Country Club sponsors Pakistan v West Indies series on pcb.cricinfo.com
01 Feb 2002
CricInfo has signed an exclusive agreement with Lahore Country Club to promote this new Pakistani sports and leisure facility to internet users worldwide. CricInfo.com, the world's most popular cricket web site, will be providing live scorecard coverage of Pakistan's two Test match series and three one-day internationals against the West Indies being played in Sharjah at www.pcb.cricinfo.com. The coverage links to www.cricnews.com, which gives users comprehensive information about the state-of-the-art facilities at the Lahore Country Club. [More..]

IndexTrade.com to sponsor tradingSports/CricInfo cricket game
24 Jan 2002
IndexTrade.com have today become the first ever sponsors of the innovative new tradingSports cricket game. The exclusive deal between CricInfo - the world's largest single sports website - and IndexTrade.com will allow cricket fans to trade live online on the outcome of tomorrow's third One-Day International between England and India in Madras. [More..]

CricInfo signs major deal with bet365
15 Jan 2002
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket site, has teamed up with betting specialist bet365 to provide its users with a comprehensive global betting service. The deal, which starts immediately, was negotiated by Director of Sales Alex Chamberlen who leads CricInfo's in-house sales team. The agreement includes banner and newsletter advertising, as well as a number of new tailored promotional initiatives, including CricInfo's first-ever dedicated betting and gaming page. [More..]

CricInfo.com launches "CricTxt"
9 Jan 2002
CricInfo, the world's most popular cricket site, has teamed up with MPP Global Solutions to provide CricTxt, a global SMS cricket scores service. The service, which is available worldwide, sends SMS text messages to mobile phones every time a wicket falls in every Test or One Day International. Fans can also receive score updates at the end of each session of play. [More..]

CricInfo passes 1,500,000,000 in 2001
20 Dec 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's most popular sports web site, yesterday passed one and a half billion page views in 2001. This is the first time that the site has passed this landmark in a calendar year, and reflects strong performance in all major markets. CricInfo raced to this landmark late yesterday as England attempted to square the series with India at Bangalore. The site passed a total of 3 billion page views in its history earlier this autumn. [More..]

Cricket fans to trial new interactive sports game
20 Dec 2001
An exclusive deal between CricInfo, the world's largest single sport website, and tradingSports, the innovative new interactive sports game, will allow CricInfo users to trade on the outcome of tomorrow's third and final Test match between England and India - right up until the last ball is bowled. The application of the game on the CricInfo site has been approved on a one-off trial basis and marks the first occasion that the game has been made accessible to the public during a live cricket match. [More..]

I-Level teams BT up with CricInfo.com to raise awareness of BT Together among British asians
13 Dec 2001
BT has launched an innovative online marketing campaign targeting Britain's Asian communities using CricInfo.com, the world's largest cricket site. The campaign, put together by award-winning interactive agency i-level, uses surveys, competitions and forums to engage cricket fans within the UK's Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan communities for the next four months. [More..]

CricInfo completes global restructuring
20 Nov 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's largest single-sport site, has completed its global restructure and has been reorganised into national and regional units. The global operation now falls into three distinct geographical profit centres. Alex Balfour, current Chairman and former Business Development Director, takes up the new position of Regional Manager: Europe, West Indies, Africa. Badri Seshadri takes up the position of Regional Manager: Asia and the Americas, while Adrian Motherway, formerly New Zealand CEO, becomes Regional Manager: Australasia. This team of three reports to Managing Director, Peter Griffiths. [More..]

Nirala Sweets supports CricInfo's internet coverage of Pakistan cricket
16 Nov 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site, and Anmol Company have signed a sponsorship agreement making Nirala Sweets the sponsors of CricInfo's live internet coverage of the current domestic cricket season in Pakistan. The company also brought cricket fans CricInfo's live internet coverage of Pakistan's recent victory in the Khaleej Times Trophy in Sharjah. [More..]

CricInfo signs one-year deal with BCCSL
13 Oct 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site, has signed a contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) to host Sri Lankan cricket's official web site, www.lankacricket.lk, for the next 12 months. The BCCSL's corporate web site, www.bccsl.com, will also be hosted by CricInfo. [More..]

Yorkshire are CricInfo Champions.... of the web
12 Sep 2001
Yorkshire, crowned CricInfo County Champions today at Scarborough, have another title to add to their trophy cabinet: they are the CricInfo Champions of the Web. In an exclusive new survey conducted by CricInfo.com, it is revealed that live scores of Yorkshire's games are the most watched on ecb.co.uk, the official site powered by Championship sponsors CricInfo. [More..]

CricInfo passes 1,000,000,000 in 2001
21 Aug 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's most popular sports web site, has today recorded its billionth page view in 2001. This is the first time that the site has passed this landmark in a calendar year, and reflects strong performance in all major markets. The site raced to this landmark earlier today as Yorkshire prepare their final assault on the CricInfo Championship. [More..]

Stewart and Butcher each rule themselves out as England captain
10 Jul 2001
Former England captains Alec Stewart and Mark Butcher have both stated that they would not like to be considered to take over the England captaincy in Nasser Hussain’s absence. In diary columns written exclusively for CricInfo, Stewart said, "There's been some speculation that I might become captain again, but I wouldn’t take the job back if it was offered." [More..]

Watch the Ashes live on your computer screen
29 Jun 2001
Cricket fans can now follow the action of the Ashes Tour live on their computer, thanks to the new online 'Ashes Club' cricket service being launched today by BTopenworld and leading cricket web site CricInfo.com, on the English Cricket Board's (ECB) official site at www.ecb.co.uk. The deal is the first in a series of major online subscription content rights deals that BTopenworld is set to roll out over a select number of genres in the next 12 months. [More..]

Darren Gough teams up with CricInfo
17 Jun 2001
Darren Gough’s official web site (www.darrengough.com) launches today. The site, powered by CricInfo.com, will feature a wide range of features, including all the latest news about Goughie, photos, statistics and details of forthcoming events in his benefit season. [More..]

Live Cricket Commentary on the Internet
07 Jun 2001
Cricket fans can listen to live commentary on the internet of their team's progress during this month's NatWest Series involving England, Australia and Pakistan. The whole Series will be broadcast exclusively on ecb.co.uk, the official web site of English cricket powered by CricInfo.com. [More..]

Tuffnell ready for England
22 May 2001
In-form Phil Tufnell is hoping to catch the selectors’ eyes before the second npower Test Match against Pakistan at Old Trafford. Writing on CricInfo in the first instalment of his new diary column Tufnell said, "If it comes – great stuff; if not, I’m still working hard. So, the message to Mr Graveney and his wise men is: Tuffers says it's coming out of the hand brilliantly and he’s bowling like a genius!" [More..]

CricInfo and nzcricket.co.nz continue to push back the boundaries
18 May 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site and host to the official web site of New Zealand cricket, nzcricket.co.nz, has released traffic figures for March which confirm its position as the number one cricket site in the world and nzcricket.co.nz as the most popular sport site in New Zealand. [More..]

Listen to the Pakistan tour live on the internet and Radio Pakistan
15 May 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's most popular cricket web site and Sports International have struck a deal to broadcast live ball-by-ball audio commentary on the internet for the Pakistan tour of England. The service, which will include commentary on the npower Test Matches starting at Lord's on Thursday and the NatWest Series next month, will be available exclusively on the internet on www.cricinfo.com and its web sites ecb.co.uk and PCB.cricinfo.com. [More..]

CricInfo.com notches up 250m not out
8 May 2001
ABC ELECTRONIC (www.abce.org.uk), the new media arm of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) and the UK's foremost independent online auditor, has completed a comprehensive 31 day world wide audit on CricInfo.com (www.cricinfo.com). Final results have confirmed that the level of global traffic visiting the site exceeded an incredible 250 million page impressions and 3.5m users, (actual figures for March 1-31 were 254,599,866 page impressions and 3,553,168 users), making it the planet's largest single-sport site to have been audited and issued a certificate by ABC ELECTRONIC. [More..]

CricInfo to sponsor County Championship
19 April 2001
CricInfo, the world's leading cricket Internet company, today announced a one-year sponsorship agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) that will see the company become title sponsors of the First Class County Championship. [More..]

CricInfo.com goes mobile
21 March 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's most popular cricket web site, is now available on the mobile internet via WAP enabled phones. The free service, available at mobile.cricinfo.com, allows users to stay in touch with the latest scores and news from international cricket wherever they are in the world. [More..]

CricInfo traffic breaks more records
7 March 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's most popular cricket web site set two new records last week: more than 45 million page impressions registered between Monday 26th February and Sunday 4th March making it the busiest week for the site; 16.9 million page impressions were recorded on Wednesday 28th February, beating the previous record single day of 11.7 million from October last year. [More..]

Death of Sir Donald Bradman prompts worldwide mourning
27 February 2001
Cricket lovers all over the world are mourning the death of Sir Donald Bradman. Within 24 hours of the news of the great batsman's demise, more than 2,000 tributes had been sent in to CricInfo.com from countries as far a field as Grenada and Indonesia. In response to the demands of many of CricInfo's users, the company is leading a campaign to name the recently announced ICC World Test Championship in his honour. [More..]

CricInfo launches first Urdu internet service
21 February 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site has launched the first Urdu cricket service on the internet. All international matches involving Pakistan and major domestic matches will be covered by the new service. The web site, which hosts the official site of Pakistan cricket (www.pcb.cricinfo.com), announced last week that it has secured the internet rights for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). [More..]

New Zealand cricket on the internet hits new highs
15 February 2001
Growth of public interest in cricket on New Zealand Cricket's internet site has resulted in the country's first server being installed by CricInfo.com to speed up the delivery of the country's most popular sports site. [More..]

CricInfo secures official Pakistan cricket internet rights
5 February 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) today signed an agreement making CricInfo the exclusive host of the official Pakistan web site for the next five years. In addition to hosting the official site (www.pcb.cricinfo.com), the deal has been expanded to include the production of official merchandise, online ticketing and internet broadcast rights. [More..]

CricInfo Statement
1 February 2001
The press pack issued today by the Sri Lankan board includes a number of player profiles from CricInfo's Sri Lanka web site, srilanka.cricinfo.com. The source of these profiles has been wrongly attributed to the official England web site, ECB.co.uk. [More..]

CricInfo ends 2000 on a record high
1 February 2001
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site, registered more than 810 million page impressions during 2000, surpassing its previous record total of 577 million. December 2000 also proved to be the record month for the web site with 112 million page impressions recorded. [More..]

CricInfo Women's World Cup points to bright global future for women's cricket
18 January 2001
The CricInfo Women's World Cup, which took place last month in New Zealand, gave women's cricket its biggest global exposure ever, and united the ICC and the IWCC in their optimism for the future of the women's game. The exposure the tournament received globally, in particular via the CricInfo website, which recorded visitors from more than 100 countries, was an unprecedented success. [More..]

Phase2Media UK & CricInfo Announce Online Sales Partnership
9 January 2001
CricInfo, the world's largest cricket website, has announced that Phase2Media is to sell advertising and sponsorship on its behalf in the UK from January. [More..]

CricInfo and Breast Cancer Care charity link to encourage women's sport and active lifestyles
7 December 2000
CricInfo has linked with the Breast Cancer Care charity to run an online awareness campaign throughout the CricInfo Women's World Cup. The campaign will run on the CricInfo official Women's World Cup website at wwc2000.cricinfo.com and include promotional banner adverts, integrated content and link-throughs to the Breast Cancer Care website, www.breastcancercare.org.uk. [More..]

CricInfo breaks 100 million barrier
9 November 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site, registered 100.6 million page impressions in October, breaking its previous highest total of 95.5 million. Although there were no Test Matches in October, it was a busy month for cricket, with a total of 25 One-Day Internationals, including the ICC KnockOut in Kenya. [More..]

CricInfo backs Indian blind cricket
9 November 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's largest cricketing web site, is to sponsor India's blind cricket team. The first match is to be staged in Dhaka, to coincide with Bangladesh's inaugural Test Match against India. This event is held to showcase and promote blind cricket. [More..]

CricInfo breaks new ground with womens' World Cup coverage
2 November 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site and title sponsor of the Women's World Cup, is to broadcast live audio and video coverage on the internet of every match in the tournament which starts later this month. The official World Cup site, wwc2000.cricinfo.com, will host the broadcasts, supported by match reports, live scorecards, statistics, interviews and in-depth analysis. [More..]

Live coverage of Premier League One Day Tournament
26 October 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's most popular cricket web site and host of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) official web site, unveiled plans today to provide comprehensive live coverage on the internet of the Premier League One-Day Tournament, beginning this Saturday. [More..]

CricInfo signs exclusive internet deal with Bangladesh
26 October 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site, today signed an agreement with the Bangladesh Cricket Development Foundation (BCDF) appointing CricInfo to host and manage the official web site of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). The site will form part of CricInfo's global network of official web sites at www.cricinfo.com. CricInfo now hosts eight of the ten Test-playing countries as well as the ICC and many first-class teams. [More..]

CricInfo records its highest ever daily traffic figures
20 October 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site, registered 11.7 million page impressions on Friday 13th October as India beat South Africa in the semi-final of the ICC KnockOut tournament in Kenya. The previous record for daily traffic was just over nine million page impressions, for the semi-final of the World Cup when Australia defeated South Africa at Trent Bridge in June 1999. [More..]

CricInfo puts Australian women's cricket to the fore
13 October 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site and host of the official web site of the ACB (www.baggygreen.com.au), is to provide live in-depth coverage of the Australian women's domestic and international seasons. [More..]

Baggygreen.com.au unveils new team for the new season
13 October 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site and host of the official web site of the ACB (www.baggygreen.com.au), has announced its new line up for the coming Australian season. Six new columnists for the 2000 season will be writing for the site, including players from each of the state sides. [More..]

CricInfo to webcast full live audio commentary from ICC Knockout
27 September 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's most popular cricket web site, is to broadcast exclusive live audio coverage from every match of the forthcoming ICC Knockout, which will take place in Kenya between 3rd and 15th October. [More..]

Broome makes webcasting history
22 September 2000
This weekend marks a momentous development in the broadcasting of regional cricket in Australia. The Western Warriors will be playing two touring sides in Broome, Western Australia and for the first time in Broome's cricketing history live ball-by-ball scorecards of all the weekend's play will be broadcast on the Internet, via CricInfo.com. [More..]

CricInfo brings New Zealand's cricket together on the web
15 September 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's most popular cricket web site has signed all six of New Zealand's major cricket associations. The agreement follows CricInfo gaining New Zealand Cricket's Internet contract earlier this year. The deal makes New Zealand the first country among the cricket nations to have all its first-class associations and their parent body together in the CricInfo camp. [More..]

CricInfo and ECB.co.uk August Traffic Figures
14 September 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's most popular cricket web site, registered over 67 million page impressions during August 2000, an increase of nearly 150 per cent on August 1999's traffic. ECB.co.uk, the official England web site powered by CricInfo, registered 33.7 million page impressions in just its second month. The total number of impressions for ECB.co.uk since its launch on June 29th stands at 74.7 million. [More..]

CricInfo New Zealand appoints Lynn McConnell
1 September 2000
Lynn McConnell has joined CricInfo's New Zealand operation as editor of the official site of NZC, www.nzcricket.co.nz. McConnell has 27 years' experience in journalism in New Zealand, on The Southland Times, The Marlborough Express and, most recently, The Evening Post. [More..]

Internet audio commentary reaches global audience
30 August 2000
Cricket followers from some of the most remote parts of the globe have been following the Cornhill Test Series between England and West Indies, thanks to the live audio commentary service on www.ECB.co.uk/live. [More..]

King Commission interim report to be published online
24 August 2000
The long-awaited interim findings of the King Commission into match fixing are to be published tomorrow on CricInfo.com. The report is expected to be published at 10.00 AM in South Africa. [More..]

Dazzler, Corky and Caddick bowl out Nasty Nick
22 August 2000
The eviction of West Indian batsmen from the crease at Headingley proved to be more of a draw than the demise of "Nasty" Nick on Channel 4's Big Brother. CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site, announced that 8 million page impressions were recorded on Friday. [More..]

ECB.co.uk off to a flying start
14 August 2000
The new CricInfo-powered official England cricket site, www.ecb.co.uk, has quickly established itself as the English cricket followers' favourite. The traffic figures released today show that the site has already generated over 30 million page impressions, since its launch on 29th June. [More..]

Listen to Pakistan Under 15s semi-final live on the internet
4 August 2000
Cricket supporters can listen to the climax of the Costcutter Under 15 World Challenge on the Internet with exclusive ball-by-ball audio commentary on www.ECB.co.uk/live, powered by CricInfo.com. The official ECB site, www.ecb.co.uk, is the only place fans will be able to follow both semi-finals: England against Pakistan on Saturday 5th August and South Africa against the West Indies on Tuesday 8th August. [More..]

CricInfo Women's World Cup Internet Site launched by New Zealand Cricket and CricInfo
2 August 2000
The build up to the CricInfo Women's Cricket World Cup 2000, to be played in New Zealand during November and December, began today with the launch of the tournament's web site, wwc2000.cricinfo.com. CricInfo has joined forces with New Zealand Cricket to produce a site which will give all 31 World Cup matches comprehensive coverage, including live ball-by-ball scores, making the tournament the most widely followed in its history [More..]

Watch the Sri Lanka vs South Africa Test Series live on CricInfo.com
20 July 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's largest cricket web site and host to the official Sri Lanka site is broadcasting video coverage of the whole of the Test Series between Sri Lanka and South Africa live on www.cricinfo.com. Coverage begins at 04:30 GMT on Thursday 20th July with the pictures supplied to CricInfo by Sony Entertainment Television. [More..]

Ralph Dellor joins CricInfo
14 July 2000
CricInfo, the world's leading cricket web site, has appointed Ralph Dellor as Director of Cricket Operations. Dellor, who has 30 years of experience working within the cricket media, will have overall responsibility for the editorial content of CricInfo.com and the various sites it hosts. In addition to the content, Dellor will continue to head CricInfo's team for the audio ball-by-ball commentary. [More..]

Live cricket commentary on the web
06 July 2000
Cricket supporters will be able to follow this month's NatWest Series of One Day Internationals on the Internet with ECB and CricInfo.com's new ball-by-ball audio commentary. The service, will be launched on Thursday 6th July on the new CricInfo powered ECB site, www.ecb.co.uk, in time for the match between West Indies and Zimbabwe. [More..]

England cricket signs deal with CricInfo
30 June 2000
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) have signed an agreement with CricInfo to manage the ECB and MCC’s joint web-site. The deal runs for an initial period of 90 days to cover the 2000 domestic cricket season. [More..]

CricInfo signs exclusive internet deal with Sri Lanka
23 June 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site, and the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) today signed an agreement making CricInfo the exclusive host of the official web site. The deal includes complete audio and video rights for the next three series involving Sri Lanka, with the tours by Pakistan and South Africa. [More..]

CricInfo to support premier schools' cricket tournament
19 June 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's biggest cricket web site, is to sponsor this summer's Bunbury English Schools Cricket Association (ESCA) festival, taking place at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire from 16th - 21st July. The sponsorship of the tournament is CricInfo's latest venture to support junior cricket. [More..]

CricInfo's new database provides greater depth to cricket stats than ever before
14 June 2000
CricInfo.com today launched its new interactive database tool, StatsGuru, bringing greater depth, clarity and ease-of-use to cricket stats than ever previously available. The database can be used to search for details about every player from every Test Match and One Day International in the history of the game. [More..]

CricInfo secures major strategic investment from India's biggest Internet company
5 June 2000
CricInfo, the world’s leading digital cricket information company, has announced today that Satyam Infoway Limited (NASDAQ: SIFY), India's premier Internet and e-commerce company, has acquired a 25% stake in the company. [More..]

Cricinfo's global network of sites continues to expand as new deal with New Zealand is announced
10 May 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site, and New Zealand Cricket Inc today signed an agreement making CricInfo the exclusive host of the official website for the next five years. New Zealand cricket supporters going online will be able to access an expanded range of interactive and multimedia features, and buy all the latest Black Caps' merchandise from the Internet shop, due to open in July. [More..]

Hampshire scorer given 'dream' silver anniversary present
10 May 2000
Vic Isaacs, Hampshire's long-serving scorer, has been asked by the ECB to be the official England scorer for the forthcoming First Test against Zimbabwe at Lord's to mark his 25th anniversary as the County's scorer and his services to cricket. [More..]

CricInfo joins forces with Outlaws to promote cricket in Nottinghamshire
28 April 2000
CricInfo, www.cricinfo.com, this morning signed a shirt sponsorship deal with Nottinghamshire CCC, the first of its kind involving an Internet company and a professional cricket club in the UK. The new Notts Outlaws' shirt, bearing the CricInfo logo, will be worn in Norwich Union National League games throughout the 2000 season. [More..]

Glamorgan star to give live post-match interviews on www.glamorgancricket.com
27 April 2000
Glamorgan cricket supporters will be able to log on to the Club's official web site this Sunday (www.glamorgancricket.com) for a post-match online chat with Dragons' star Steve Watkin. The new interactive facility, developed by web hosts CricInfo, will debut after Glamorgan's first Norwich Union National Cricket League game - against Surrey Lions at Sophia Gardens - at 7.20pm on April 30th. [More..]

CricInfo heads the winter averages as new cricket season begins
10 April 2000
CricInfo.com, the world's biggest sports Internet site, generated a record 95,536,300 page impressions during March 2000. This figure beats the site's previous best, 87,883,956, which was recorded in January this year. An estimated seven million people have used the site during the first quarter of 2000, resulting approximately one billion hits to date this year. [More..]

Glamorgan announces CricInfo as sponsor of first floodlit match in Wales
8 April 2000 (Glamorgan cricket press release)
The most exciting development of our relationship with cricinfo.com for the 2000 season is that they have agreed to sponsor Glamorgan Dragons’ Norwich Union NCL fixture against the Essex Eagles. This match on Tuesday 13th June 2000 will be the first competitive County match played under floodlights in Wales. [More..]

CricInfo Donates 5 million Zimbabwe Dollars to Cricket Development in Zimbabwe
23 February 2000
CricInfo has announced a major Z$5 million sponsorship initiative to aid the development of cricket in Zimbabwe. The sponsorship was launched on 21 February 2000, when a cheque for Z$5 million was presented to the Zimbabwe Cricket Union by CricInfo's Chief Executive Officer, Simon King, at an evening reception organised by the British High Commission. [More..]

New Zealand Cricket announces Cricinfo as global sponsor For Women's Cricket World Cup 2000
15 February 2000
CricInfo, the digital cricket information company, is to sponsor the Women's World Cup 2000, which will take place in New Zealand in November and December this year. [More..]

CricInfo traffic hits new heights, and passes one billion
4 February 2000
CricInfo, the global cricket website, delivered 87,883,956 page impressions for the period 1st - 31st January 2000. This record figure represents year-on-year growth of 118%, and a 13% increase on the December 1999 figure. The site passed the landmark 1,000,000,000 total page impressions during December 1999. [More..]