The Silly Point
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| URL | http://www.thesillypoint.com |
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| Slogan | "cricket without boundaries" |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Cricket website, a journaling scrapbook bulletin board and weblog |
| Registration | Mandatory |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | ©hinaman |
| Created by | ©hinaman |
| Launched | 24th November 2006 |
| Revenue | Nil |
| Current status | Active |
The "Silly Point" is a web-based cricket community featuring hosted services such as a members only discussion forum, a blogsite and a webring. It takes its name from the attacking field position on a cricket pitch, the silly point[1].
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[edit] The "Silly Point"
It is a community created by amateur cricketers and cricket enthusiasts. It aims to bring together cricket lovers from across the globe to share their passion for the game.
Initially formed by and for posters of the discontinued BBC Test Match Special Board. It has slowly grown in a year to register members from all over the world. It now has members from every ICC full member cricket playing nation.
[edit] Bulletin board
"Silly Points" is the community's bulletin board. It is set up as a journaling scrapbook of cricketing incidents and news from all playing nations. Every member has the freedom to add to each topic their own comments, thoughts and opinions. The forum From beyond the Test world is dedicated to discuss news and cricketing events solely from the Associate and the Affiliate member nations.
[edit] Blogspage
the "silly points" is a multination multi-author cricket-only blogsite. The blogspage is active and is known for writing articles on varying topics.
The blog's article has been quoted in many other websites. Global Voices Online, the international network of bloggers, quoted their farewell tribute to the Indian cricketer, Saurav Ganguly[2]. It was also quoted in its French[3], Spanish[4] and Bengali[5] translation projects.
It is accepted as "related site" by:
1. BBC Sports Text Match Special [6] - the first non-BBC blogsite that was included on the list.
2. As a Blogger Friend of Rambhai [7] - an independent Indian news and blogs portal.
3. Rediff Cricket - List of Blogs [8]
[edit] Webpages
It has built its own webpages centered on the discussion board, to bring the latest news and information from the world of cricket on to a single sit. The webpages present recent cricket news as RSS headlines, weather forecasts for all testmatch venues and international cricket fixtures in a calendar format. The "Sillypointer" is a cricket-only searchengine. The website has its own page for live text commentary powered by cricbuzz.com. Along with live commentary and scorecards, it features news, squads, match previews, highlights and graphs.
[edit] Webring
The site's slogan is "cricket without boundaries".
To join together cricket websites across all playing nations, the site has launched Equator a cricket-only webring with its own Equator - blogsring feed aggregator.
[edit] The ethos
The site is managed in the spirit of a 'silly point'.
A silly point [1] in cricket is one of the closest fielding position to the batsman and requires focus, anticipation, quick reflexes and above all great courage.
The site promises Freedom of Expression to all. Every member is encouraged to express their opinion without the fear of censorship.
[edit] References
- ^ Silly point: cricket fielding position
- ^ India: Prince of Kolkata retires
- ^ Inde : le Prince de Calcutta prend sa retraite
- ^ India: Se retira el Príncipe de Calcuta
- ^ ভারত: কলকাতার যুবরাজ অবসরে গেলেন
- ^ The Silly Point on BBC Test Match Special
- ^ The Silly Point - Friend of Rambhai
- ^ The Silly Point on Rediff India Cricket
[edit] External links
- BBC Sports Academy - Cricket
- International Cricket Council
- The "Silly Point" – the website
- Equator – the cricket webring
