- published: 25 Mar 2016
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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.