ESPNcricinfo is a sports news website devoted entirely to the sport of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and StatsGuru, a database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present

The site, originally conceived in a pre-World Wide Web form in 1993 by Dr. Simon King, was acquired in 2002 by the Wisden Group — publishers of several notable Cricket magazines and the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. As part of an eventual breakup of the Wisden Group, it was sold to ESPN in 2007.

CricInfo was launched in 1993 by Dr. Simon King, a British researcher at the University of Minnesota with help from students and researchers at universities around the world. It initially operated as a volunteer-based collective, and started life as a simple IRC bot. It was soon made available via Gopher as well, and with the advent of the Mosaic web browser in April 1993 became one of the earliest content web sites on the Internet.

Poonam Pandey (Hindi: पूनम पांडे; born 11 March 1991) is one of the Kingfisher Calendar girls for year 2011. Poonam was the first Kingfisher Calendar girl who gave a nude image for a magazine.

She first came in the limelight when she vowed to shed all their clothes if India lifts the World Cup trophy. She follows in the footsteps of Paraguay's Larissa Riquelme and Argentinian Luciana Salazar who promised to strip if their football teams won the FIFA World Cup. Though being a bit late she did pose nude moments after the showdown of the Indian Premier League season-5. She made her debut on television as a contestant in Fear Factor - Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 4 which was hosted by Akshay Kumar.

‘Jism’ director Amit Saxena has confirmed that he will have Poonam Pandey as the female lead in his forthcoming film, which he says will be a coming of age film. Not too long ago when Pandey claimed on her Twitter account about her Bollywood debut, Saxena denied. However, now he has cleared the air. While speaking freely about the project, Amit said, “Yes, we are working together in a coming of age script. Poonam is the lead actor in the film.”

Shahrukh Khan (pronounced [‘ʃaːɦrəx ˈxaːn]; born 2 November 1965), often credited as Shah Rukh Khan and informally referred to as SRK, is an Indian film actor. Known as "The King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films. He has won fourteen Filmfare Awards from thirty nominations for his work in Indian films and shares the record for the highest number of Best Actor awards with Dilip Kumar, eight wins. In 2005, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for his contributions towards Indian cinema.

After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in economics, he started his career appearing in theatre and several television serials in the late 1980s and later made his Hindi film debut in 1992 with Deewana. Early in his career he was recognised for his unconventional choice of negative roles in films such as Darr (1993), Baazigar (1993) and Anjaam (1994). Since then he has played leading roles in a wide variety of film genres, including romantic films, comedies, thrillers, action films, sport films, and historical dramas among others.

Imran Khan Niazi (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی; born 25 November 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics. Currently, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

Arguably Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ( pronunciation (help·info); born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer widely considered to be one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the first player to score a double century in ODI cricket. In 2002, just 12 years into his career, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards. Tendulkar was a part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Indian team in the later part of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India. He is currently nominated for receiving the Bharat Ratna award.