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Baggygreen.com.au unveils new team for the new season Australia's most popular sports web site prepares for the summer 13 October 2000
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Graham McKechnie 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. As well as comprehensive live coverage of all international matches, Australian cricket followers will be able to follow more domestic matches than ever before, from state to grade. The new team of columnists will include Andrew Bichel (Queensland), Stuart MacGill (New South Wales), Matthew Mott (Victoria), Paul Wilson (South Australia), Mike Hussey (Western Australia). Jamie Cox (Tasmania), who spent the winter writing for CricInfo as Somerset captain, also joins the baggygreen team. The live coverage of matches found on baggygreen, which previously covered all Australian first class matches, has been expanded to include Women's National League and the ACB Cup. The archive has been developed and given greater accessibility, with the addition of graphics, a new search tool and even more in-depth first class statistics and a domestic one-day archive. ABOUT CRICINFO LIMITED www.baggygreen.com.au is the official home of Australian cricket on the Internet. The site, powered by CricInfo, was launched in 1998 and is a joint venture with ninemsn and the ACB. It is the single most popular web site in Australia, with up to 5 million page impressions a day. CricInfo Limited is the world's leading digital cricket information company. CricInfo's web site, www.cricinfo.com, is the most popular cricket site in the world and is among the Internet's most popular sports sites, estimated to reach more than fifteen million fans in 180 countries. The site records upwards of 60 million page impressions per month and generated a record audience of 95 million in March 2000. CricInfo has its Head Office in the UK, with regional offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zimbabwe. CricInfo works with cricket boards and cricket organisations, blue chip companies and the media to deliver cricket content for a wide range of different platforms. It currently produces official sites for seven of the ten Test-playing countries, for the ICC and for a number of domestic teams worldwide. For further information, please contact:
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