
November 17, 2006
Who is The Greatest Allrounder?
Posted by Andrew Hall on 11/17/2006 in Product Launches
Botham or Flintoff? Imran or Kapil? Sobers or Miller? It's a question that's fuelled arguments in pubs around the cricket world for years. Now Cricinfo, in association with Volkswagen Touareg, has launched a brand new site to help establish the identity of cricket's greatest allrounders once and for all.
http://www.cricinfo.com/greatestallrounder
To kick it off, we've made our initial selection of 20 of the all-time greats. Every week we'll be profiling one of the greatest allrounders in the history of the game - week one is Andrew Flintoff.
We will also provide you with a wealth of accompanying video profiles and stats articles. And you can have your say in the Greatest Allrounder blog.
There's also the small matter of a competition to win a trip to the Ashes. So if you're not already on the way to Australia, you can enter here.
November 1, 2006
Ashes Fantasy Cricket now live
Posted by Andrew Hall on 11/01/2006 in Product Launches
Cricinfo's popular Fantasy Cricket returns for the eagerly anticipated Ashes series.
The game covers the 5 Ashes Tests and there is £10,000 worth of prizes on offer, including a luxury holiday, £5,000 in cash prizes, signed books, t-shirts and much more.
Following the popular fantasy formula, the game allows you to select your composite XI from the players who will be featuring in the Ashes series. Points are accumulated according to your players' performances in the series.
To add another level of excitement, you can challenge your mates and run your own super-leagues via the “Friends & Enemies league” area of the site, once you have registered a team.
The "groundzone" concept returns - players get extra points for runs scored in certain areas and our exclusive live points updates, where your score will mount (or fall) as the action in the series unfolds.
And last - but not least - there will be an overall score for England fans vs Australia fans - so we'll have a winner for the Virtual Ashes!
So sign up here to stand a chance of walking away with the prizes. Good luck!
June 29, 2006
£10,000 of prizes to be won in Cricinfo Fantasy League
Posted by Andy on 06/29/2006 in Product Launches
The new England v Pakistan version of the Cricinfo Fantasy League game is now open for registrations. Click here to sign up and play.
The game covers the 4 Test matches and 5 ODIs between England and Pakistan this summer and there is £10,000 worth of prizes on offer, including a luxury holiday, £5,000 in cash prizes and much more.
Following the popular fantasy formula, the game allows you to select your composite XI from the players who will be featuring in the England v Pakistan series. Points are accumulated according to your players' performances in the series.
To add another level of excitement, you can challenge your mates and run your own super-leagues via the “Friends & Enemies league” area of the site, once you have registered a team.
In addition, we have introduced the "groundzone" concept where players will get extra points for runs scored in certain areas and our exclusive live points updates, where your score will mount (or fall) as the action in the series unfolds.
So sign up today to stand a chance of walking away with the prizes. Good luck!
May 17, 2006
Cricinfo Top Trumps - ODI Stars
Posted by Andy on 05/17/2006 in Product Launches
Our popular Cricinfo Top Trumps game has recently taken on a new dimension with the release of Cricinfo Top Trumps - ODI Stars.
The game includes a whole new card deck featuring the greatest ODI players in the world today and is still based on the stats from the Cricinfo database - so if Rahul Dravid’s real-life average goes down, so will his in-game numbers, making every game a new challenge.
What's more, if you don't fancy playing people from all over the globe at Top Trumps live online, you can take on the computer instead in our new one player mode, where you can play 10 levels of increasing difficulty against some of our ODI stars.
As previously, if you can keep winning, then you’ll climb our leaderboard and see your name amongst Cricinfo Top Trumps players from across the world.
Visit www.cricinfo.com/toptrumps to play today.
March 1, 2006
Cricinfo Top Trumps
Posted by Andy on 03/01/2006 in Product Launches
Fancy playing your friends at Top Trumps, live online? To coincide with the start of the India v England series, we’re launching an exciting new multiplayer game, Cricinfo Top Trumps, with all the India & England stars – as well as a selection of legends from each country – featured on the cards.
The game allows you to challenge people from all over the globe to a game of Top Trumps. What’s more, all the stats come from the Cricinfo database, so if Rahul Dravid’s real-life average goes down, so will his in-game numbers, making every game a new challenge.
If you can keep winning, then you’ll climb our leaderboard and see your name amongst Cricinfo Top Trumps players from across the world.
Visit www.cricinfo.com/toptrumps to play today.
November 27, 2005
RSS & Link to us
Posted by Andy on 11/27/2005 in Product Launches
Cricinfo now offers a number of free RSS feeds to help keep you up to date with the latest cricket news and scores from the world's leading cricket website. Choose either a feed of all Cricinfo's global cricket news, or just a feed relating to the Test team you support.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds provide headlines, brief article descriptions and links in an xml file that is automatically updated whenever those headlines change. This allows you to receive notification of new content in your own environment - in your browser, on your desktop, in your blog, in your club's website or elsewhere. Just click here to find out more.
You can arrange to link to Cricinfo from your website thanks to our Link to us service. You can choose from a large range of button styles and we even supply the HTML code. All you need to do is copy and paste the code into your page and you will automatically link to the official Cricinfo site.
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