CricBuzz

CricBuzz is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including videos and scorecards), player rankings and team rankings. The website also offers several mobile app. CricBuzz is also the largest mobile app for cricket news and scores in India. The site was created and is edited by Piyush Agrawal.

History

CricBuzz was created by three Infosys former employees Piyush Agrawal (IIT, BHU alumnus), Pankaj Chhaparwal and Pravin Hegde in the year 2004. By 2010, CricBuzz started developing mobile app for live cricket news and scores.

Acquisition by Times Internet

In Nov 2014, Times Internet acquired majority stake in CricBuzz for undisclosed sum. Post acquisition, the website continues to be managed by the original founders.

GoCricket merger

In Jan 2015, Times Internet owned GoCricket was merged into cricbuzz. GoCricket's website was redirected to cricbuzz and the mobile app of GoCircket was also merged with that of cricbuzz. GoCricket and Times Internet started alerting its users on various social media sites to follow cricbuzz.