CricBuzz

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CricBuzz
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CricBuzz Logo
Web address cricbuzz.com
Slogan .
Commercial? No
Type of site
 Sports website
Registration Optional
Available in English, Hindi and other Indian Regional Languages
Users 50 million
(Feb 2015) [1]
Owner Times Internet
Atul Yadav live in Raebareli
Created by Pankaj Chhaparwal
Piyush Agrawal
Pravin Hegde
Launched November 1, 2004 (2004-11-01)
Alexa rank
 569 (April 2016)[2]
Current status Active

CricBuzz is a sports news website allexclusively 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 many mobile apps. CricBuzz is also the largest mobile app for cricket news and scores in India.[3] The site was created and is edited by Piyush Agrawal.[4]

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.

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.[5][6]

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.[6]

Features

Cricbuzz contains live streaming of cricket scores, upcoming schedules, team and player rankings, videos, pictures, cricket based online games and several mobile apps (for Android, iPhone, Windows phone, BlackBerry, Nokia etc.).[4]

Popularity

Cricbuzz, in Aug 2015 was ranked 1,474 globally by Alexa Internet.[2] The site was reportedly the 7th most Googled site in India in 2014.[7] In 2014, its mobile app crossed 10 million downloads (largest in India) and the website was used by more than 50 million users worldwide and generated 2.6 billion page views in Jan 2015 alone.[8]

Sponsorship

In Aug 2015, CricBuzz was named the title sponsor of India-Sri Lanka test series (India’s 20-day tour to Sri Lanka that included 3 test matches held in Galle and Colombo).[9][10]

See also

References

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