The leading online resource for cricket fans, Cricinfo.com has just been acquired by ESPN for an undisclosed sum. 

Cricinfo is one of the oldest online sport portals, first launching in 1993. The site now has in excess of 7 million unique visitors per month and is ranked in the top 300 sites online according to Alexa.

Cricinfo was a pioneer in developing online sport related services, from living blogging test matches through to extensive user friendly and searchable databases of players.

Although cricket has yet to be a part of FSM, this acquisition is definitely the type of thing that could change that in the near future.  Cricket fans, we’re listening…

(via TechCrunch)

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