Cricket is a being most popular sports game in the world after Soccer. There are large numbers of dedicated fans of cricket in some countries like India, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka, Australia, South Africa and other more including our country Nepal. England is a father of cricket and father of this site also. The Cricinfo.com website is the first site you will want to visit if you are interesting in learning more about the game of cricket, if you are a cricket fan, or if you want up to date information about cricket games in progress and scores.
It was started in 1993 by a British researcher, Dr. Simon King and Dr. Badri Seshadri named as Wisden group. The site has grown to what it is today largely with the help of volunteers and only became fully staffed in the year 2000. Now the site is rocking all around the world with its every required and up to date features and statistics related to cricket. Site is completely dedicated to cricket and there are every details and statistics available related to cricket.
Cricinfo has grown by leaps and bounds since it became a limited company in 1996. The company has survived mergers and was acquired by ESPN in 2007 from the Wisden group. This site is seen by many as the most insightful, informative and up-to-date cricketing website out there in the vast world wide web. Of course, those of you which can’t stand the sport in any way, shape or form then this certainly won’t be for you. As of June 2009, Cricinfo introduced its new look website and has added ESPN in front of its name and it offers users the most comprehensive live coverage of international and domestic cricket available as well as an unparalleled stats database, quality editorial comment and analysis.
First of all, the important things to mention is online traffic of the site. This site has traffic rank of about 198 among many other online sites and of course it has best traffic rank among cricket related sites. Daily page view number is much higher than many other sites, and it is almost 5-8 million a day. This data, not a simple data but it shows its popularity worldwide.
This site has almost every cricket related data like most important Live scorecard, fixtures and results of previous matches, Scorecards, News, Wallpapers, Records, Every statistics, Ranking and Ratings of the teams and players, and some cricket related funny games too. Update of Live scorecard on this site is not less than any live TV coverage. For any international match and the majority of first-class matches, they have ball-by-ball updates, with some commentary to keep you informed of proceedings. The page provides you with the team scores, and details of the two batsmen at the crease and the two bowlers currently bowling. There’s also commentary of the previous deliveries of the last 5 overs. The commentary can be quite detailed but also very tongue-in-cheek as the commentators have ‘banter’ with the audience. All the players listed are linked to their stats page on the Cricinfo website – an encyclopedia of what must be every cricket to ever play first-class cricket in any country. Something which can be fascinating reading if you go from player to player. It also shows running run rate of the team, what happened in last 10 overs and how much overs are remaining of the day in test matches. We can also have detailed statistics of any player by clicking on its name in any place of the site. Live scorecard feature is much popular due to quick updates and all important information in a single page. Quick details are available in match full scorecard page.
It also shows 3D animation of ball by ball coverage. In this feature we can easily know the exact condition of every ball and shot. This feature is like live TV coverage and we will feel like live TV coverage experience.
Site has accurate and trusted statistics about the players, matches, teams, and records. The important point of the site is its ranking statistics. ICC always releases its ranking list after some gap of time but this site updates its raking statistics after every match, so it can give us quick information with accurate data.
With those many information, average response time for Cricinfo.com is slower (5.485 Seconds) then other sites, according to Alexa.com 84% of other sites are faster than this. But that is not a long time.
Over all, this is an all-rounder site about the cricket and has all information for your requirement. This is the best site for all cricket lovers, so do I.