Fantasy County Championship
It's that time of year again when the English domestic season comes to the fore. There's a massive choice for you to build your squad across divisions 1 and 2 of the County Championship. You've 20 transfers for the season. Scoring starts with the first round of matches - enter by 29th April (early entrants have unlimited transfers until then).
Fantasy IPL
The Indian Premier League has assembled some of the best players in the world for this first Twenty20 tournament. There are also prizes to be won - enter before the first game on April 18th.
Click here to register and enter your Fantasy Cricket team
]]> http://fantasy.cricinfo.com]]>To play Fantasy cricket, you need to be a Cricinfo registered user. You can enter two teams per game, and you can also invite your friends to compete in your own private league.
]]>- Australia v India (Prize game - Tests only)
- South Africa v West Indies (ODIs and Tests)
- New Zealand v Bangladesh (Tests and ODIs)
There are new multi-stage games for these tours, with separate transfer limits for the Test and ODI stages of each tour.
To play Fantasy cricket, you need to be a Cricinfo registered user. You can enter two teams per game, and you can also invite your friends to compete in your own private league.
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We will be running articles throughout over the next few months, but for now we start with a day-by-day tour diary covering more than five months on the road, a wealth of photos, a dummy’s guide to Bodyline, a special Quote …Unquote section and much more.
]]>Ever wished you could ask him a question about a knotty matter of batting technique? Or about your team's chances in their next big series? Now you can. Every fortnight on Cricinfo Talk Geoffrey will answer the most interesting queries Cricinfo readers put to him.
]]>Fantasy players have to use a $1,000,000 budget smartly in order to pick the right players and transfer them at the right time, in order to gain maximum points during the two series.
As before, you can also create a league and invite your friends to a mini-competition amongst yourselves. And you can monitor suqads from both series from the same page.
]]>Fantasy players have to use a $1,000,000 budget smartly in order to pick the right players and transfer them at the right time, in order to gain maximum points during the tournament.
As before, you can also create a league and invite your friends to a mini-competition amongst yourselves.
Click here to register your team now.
And don’t worry, if you're uncertain about injuries, you can change your fantasy cricket team as many times as you like prior to the first match on September 11th.
]]> Cricinfo fantasy cricket is back again for the ICC World Twenty20 tournament. And this time, it’s free to play.Fantasy players have to use a $1,000,000 budget smartly in order to pick the right players and transfer them at the right time, in order to gain maximum points during the tournament.
As before, you can also create a league and invite your friends to a mini-competition amongst yourselves.
Click here to register your team now.
And don’t worry, if you're uncertain about injuries, you can change your fantasy cricket team as many times as you like prior to the first match on September 11th.
]]>Click here to play Slogout! - Cricinfo's desktop cricket game
In Just Slogout!, the challenge is to score as many runs as possible from your allocated overs. There is no opposition target, but a range of new daily and all-time leaderboards and an enhanced "My Slogout" feature to help you keep track of your performances.
Slogout! Classic is a revised version of the popular game, where you chase down the opposition's total. We've added a few more challenging deliveries too - so getting to that total won't be as easy as before!
]]>- Full Twenty20 database - both international and domestic
The vast majority of these pages will now be updated live rather than at the end of the game.
LONDON – ESPN and The Wisden Group today announced that they had agreed to terms for ESPN’s acquisition of Cricinfo, the world’s leading cricket website.
“Growing our business in the on-line world is vital for us to serve sports fans," said Russell Wolff, managing director of ESPN International. “Cricinfo is a tremendous property with a great fan base and it will be a strong addition to ESPN.”
Lynne Frank, managing director of ESPN, Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: “Cricket has a huge worldwide following and Cricinfo has created a great product for cricket fans everywhere. The acquisition complements our growing online business and underlines the fact that ESPN is committed to serving a diverse fan base. We are delighted that Cricinfo has joined the ESPN family.”
The acquisition of Cricinfo enhances ESPN’s on-line portfolio, which includes ESPN.com - the U.S.’s premier online sports destination; ESPNdeportes.com - the number one Spanish-language sports website among Spanish-preferred fans in the U.S. and ESPNsoccernet.com - the world’s leading English-language football website.
Wisden Group director Mark Getty, said: “Cricinfo has developed into a significant cricket brand in its own right, combining huge global popularity with strong commercial success. ESPN is a major sports broadcaster and international rights holder and will provide the perfect environment for Cricinfo to further realise its enormous potential. The Wisden Group will continue to focus on its Hawk-Eye sports technology business in cricket, tennis and a growing range of other sports.”
And Tom Gleeson, Managing Director of Cricinfo, added, “We have had a strong working relationship with ESPN for a number of years and we know how successful they are in providing innovative online sports content. We look forward to working with the ESPN team and drawing on its expertise in sports marketing and digital media.”
ESPN’s digital media initiatives combine to deliver an industry-leading combination of live and on-demand sports events; up-to-the-minute sports news and information; scores, statistics and analysis; extensive on-demand and downloadable video and audio programming; fantasy sports, and video games across Web, mobile and other non-linear platforms.
ESPN Digital media properties are leading sports destinations: online- (ESPN.com); mobile (wireless Web sports site mobile.espn.com); radio ( the most listened-to online sports radio destination ESPNRadio.com); the leading English-language Soccer news and information site (ESPNsoccernet.com); leading fantasy games that are played by millions of fans each year; one of the most successful premium content services on the Web (ESPN Insider); the most downloaded sports content on the iTunes Store, and a one-of-a-kind in-game content integration platform appearing in many of the most popular sports video games.
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About ESPN
ESPN, Inc. is the world’s leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring a portfolio of over 50 multimedia sports assets. The company is comprised of six U.S. television networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, ESPNU), ESPN and ESPN2 HD simulcast services, ESPN Regional Television, ESPN International (networks, syndication, radio, web sites), ESPN Radio, ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Enterprises, ESPN Zones (sports-themed restaurants), and other growing new businesses including ESPN360 (Broadband), Mobile ESPN, ESPN on Demand, ESPN Interactive and ESPN PPV. Based in Bristol, Ct., ESPN is 80 percent owned by ABC, Inc., which is an indirect subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The Hearst Corporation holds a 20 percent interest in ESPN.
About Cricinfo
Cricinfo is the world's leading cricket website, ranked number one in all of its major markets. The site was founded in 1993, and its continuing success is built on the combination of live ball-by-ball coverage of all Test and one-day international matches, news and features written by some of the world's best cricket writers, and in-depth statistics on every one of the 3,000 international and 45,000 first class cricketers to have played the game.
Cricinfo now reaches more than seven million users every month. The site's reach, authority and brand recognition is unrivalled in the online cricket world. And Cricinfo now reaches beyond the Internet - so that fans can get Cricinfo content on mobile applications and on some of the world's leading internet portals.
About The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified worldwide media and entertainment enterprise with four main business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment and consumer products. Disney is a Dow 30 company, had annual revenues of nearly $34 billion in its most recent fiscal year, and a market capitalization of approximately $71 billion as of May 24, 2007.
- Choose your team, your opponent, and off you go. It's all a question of timing with the simple arrow key controls.
- Claim your place on the leaderboard alongside more than 20,000 players worldwide
- Master your shots all round the ground - and try a few sneaky slogs and sweeps using the down arrow.
]]>Click here and try it now or use the Cricinfo search box and view your results in "results in matches" above the photos.
Match search tips: Search for matches by using team names or abbreviations, match types and titles, ground name, dates, seasons, years, series and tournament names. eg: australia sl odi, ashes 2005, centenary test march 1977, ind pak sharjah final, lord's test, women's world cup final, west indies brisbane 1960/61, headingley 1981
]]>The score of the current match will come up at the top of your search results if you search on various key cricket and world cup related terms.
Additionally, you can add a live scores gadget to your personalised google homepage. You can find the gadget here.
]]>You can also download a handy excel document that will help you follow the progress of the tournament. Enter the results and the tracker will automatically work out placings in the group tables and those all-important Super 8s.
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Click here to register your team
If you're uncertain about injuries, don't worry, as you can change your fantasy cricket team as many times as you like prior to the first match on 13th March.
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