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Cricinfo is the largest cricket-related website. It includes news and articles, live scorecards, and a comprehensive and queriable database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present.

Cricinfo (originally CricInfo) was launched in 1993 by Simon King, a British researcher at the University of Minnesota, and grew thanks to the help of students and researchers at universities around the world. It initially operated as a volunteer-based collective, and started life as a simple IRC bot. It was soon made available via Gopher as well, and with the advent of the Mosaic web browser in April 1993 became one of the earliest content web sites on the Internet.

Cricinfo's continued growth ultimately resulted in it becoming a part of the Wisden group in 2003, when Cricinfo merged with Wisden Online. It is one of the most popular single-sport websites. It has offices in London, England and Mumbai, India. The current editor is Sambit Bal.

Columns and Blogs

Cricinfo contain various news columns and blogs written by the editors of the website.

Columns

Ask Steven
The Numbers Game
Beyond Test World
Rewind to ...
The Week that was
The List
Odd men in
Cricinfo XI
The Lowdown

Blogs

Beyond the Test world
The Surfer
Different Stokes
Tour diaries
What's new
Wicket to Wicket
23 Yards

External link

Cricinfo

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 '''Cricinfo''' is the largest [[cricket]]-related website. It includes news and articles, live scorecards, and a comprehensive and queriable [[database]] of historical matches and players from the [[18th century]] to the present.
-Cricinfo (originally CricInfo) was launched in [[1993]] by Simon King, a British researcher at the University of Minnesota, and grew thanks to the help of students and researchers at universities around the world. It operated as a volunteer-based collective, and started life as a simple [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] [[Internet bot|bot]]. It was soon made available via [[Gopher protocol|Gopher]] as well, and with the advent of the [[Mosaic browser|Mosaic]] [[web browser]] in April 1993 became one of the earliest content [[web site]]s on the [[Internet]].
+Cricinfo (originally CricInfo) was launched in [[1993]] by Simon King, a British researcher at the University of Minnesota, and grew thanks to the help of students and researchers at universities around the world. It initially operated as a volunteer-based collective, and started life as a simple [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] [[Internet bot|bot]]. It was soon made available via [[Gopher protocol|Gopher]] as well, and with the advent of the [[Mosaic browser|Mosaic]] [[web browser]] in April 1993 became one of the earliest content [[web site]]s on the [[Internet]].
 Cricinfo's continued growth ultimately resulted in it becoming a part of the [[Wisden]] group in 2003, when Cricinfo merged with Wisden Online. It is one of the most popular single-sport [[website]]s. It has offices in [[London]], [[England]] and [[Mumbai]], [[India]]. The current editor is [[Sambit Bal]].