Cricinfo
sports news website
Cricinfo (formerly known as CricInfo and ESPNcricinfo) is a sports news website dedicated exclusively to the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and StatsGuru, a database of historical matches and players spanning from the 18th century to the present.
The site, originally named as CricInfo, was originally conceived in a pre-World Wide Web form in 1993 by Simon King. Wisden Group acquired a majority stake in the company in 2003. As part of an eventual break-up of the Wisden Group, it was sold in 2007 to ESPN, jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications, and the site was renamed as ESPNcricinfo. In November 2024, it became part of JioStar group, after Disney India's assets were merged with Viacom18, owned by Reliance Industries. In June 2026, the site announced that it is being renamed as Cricinfo.
History
Formation and early years (1993–1999)
In the early 1990s, cricket fans outside cricket-playing nations, especially in the United States, had limited access to cricket-related news and scorecards. CricInfo was launched on 15 March 1993 by British researcher Simon King. It was designed as a computer bot that enabled cricket-related information to be shared through Usenet newsgroups, e-mail mailing lists, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
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