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IPL Starts Tonight: Catch It Live On Web & Your Mobile Device [List]

The wait for Indian Premier League ‘10 is finally over. The 2 month mega cricketing event commences tonight 8PM onwards. We’ve already done a lot of coverage on IPL here at WATBlog which you might like to read. The amount of painstaking effort the IPL body has taken to bring IPL to your mobile devices [...]

Now Play IPL Game On Facebook Developed By Indiagames

IPL will begin from tomorrow and if you are a gamelover specially cricket then you must play this new official IPL T20 game. Developed by Indiagames.

To play this game online, you just need to have IE6 (or higher) or Firefox 3.6 (or higher) and a Facebook account. After login through Facebook connect, you will be [...]

BookMyShow.com Introduces Theatre Style Ticket Bookings For IPL Cricket Matches!

Its very common with almost every online movie ticket booking website to offer a seat map and you get to select your own seats from the map – everything online. But this is for the first time ever in the history of Online Cricket Ticketing, that the seats of a cricket stadium has been mapped [...]

Dream11.com Announces Content Partnership: Opportunities For Advertisers, Good News For Users

Dream11.com announced a content partnership with various websites and online portals Cricketnirvana.com, Zeecric.com, Oneindia.com and Amarujala.com. Dream11.com is the flagship brand of Dream11 Media and provides Fantasy Cricket Gaming. This unique content partnership gives Fantasy Cricket fans everywhere access to the latest and most comprehensive statistics, community features, cricket games, high-score [...]

IPL Teams Look Up To The Web As Second Life!

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has already won many hearts and made a huge fan following among all cricket lovers. This is not all. It has also given a platform for budding cricketers to showcase their skills and thanks to IPL some players have left their country to play full-time in the IPL. And as [...]

India Lose ODI Series, But Vdopia Blessed With CricketNirvana

Whatever the outcome of the India Vs Australia ODI series, fans got a run for their money as they got to watch some close encounters. Although disappointed at the end, what more can you ask from a thriller cricket game? Come to think of it, online video monetization during such huge events seems interesting to [...]

Cricket.com Sold Again for $1.75 Million

Live Current Media, who earlier shot into media limelight in India because of a $50 million contract with the BCCI has sold Cricket.com to GCV Mauritius for $1.75 million. The move is seen as an exit to a high cost center with its Cricket related operations on the web.

IPL 2009 – Where is the Money?

Last year, the Kolkata Knight Riders franchisee was the only team which was really profitable. Why? Marketing and Merchandising. The presence of a certain Shah Rukh Khan helped them greatly!
SRK was able to rope in his brands. KKR piggy-backed on Nokia and Tag Heur. Reebok outlets were advertising the KKR No. 12 jersey of Khan [...]

NDTV Convergence Revamps CricketNDTV.com – IPL Effect or Tubaah?

NDTV Convergence the digital arm of NDTV has announced a revamp of its cricket portal CricketNDTV.com. According to their release the new site features such as a video section providing coaching and fitness tips from renowned experts, a revamped blog section, quizzes, contests and a more exhaustive cricket calendar. It appears that NDTV is banking heavily on the video coaching section on the site which dominates the new changes made on the portal. The coaching videos have been developed in partnership with coach Ian Pont.

Yahoo To Power ICC Website For 3 Years – Probably The Biggest Cricket Deal For Online Content!

Yahoo! has struck a deal with the ICC which could be termed as a ‘huge six’ in cricketing terms. As per the official release the International Cricket Council has announced a partnership with Yahoo according to with ICC shall host its corporate site with yahoo.com.

The deal is a three-year partnership and will provide Yahoo access [...]

BCCI Goes Live With BCCI.TV – Indian Cricket’s Official Web Home

A considerable time after it sent out request for proposals, BCCI.TV, the Indian cricket body’s new official website is finally out. The site is neat, fresh and ordinary and hasn’t broken any path in its effort to bring Indian cricket online (officially at least). So you find a scorecard of India’s last international match, overview of domestic tourneys, news, and perhaps the most interesting part the archives (subjective).

Dhoni Teaches 6 Steps to a Successful Corporate Blog

Blogging takes corporate communication to a whole new level, and at the cost of a corny comparison it works on the same lines as our new Indian captain and the dynamism he brings in to the team. In fact the more I think of it, the more the fit seems perfect, so without further adieu I will let Dhoni teach you how to run a successful corporate blog, and true to his style it is a sixer.

theIPLFanClub.com Launched. A Social Network For Cricket Fans in India.

A Fan Club Based on the IPL has Just Launched. The Timing is not necessarily perfect but a contest is up and running. It’s not clear if this fan club is ‘official’. A look at other Fan Clubs based on the Indian Premier League.

Zapak Launches ZapakCricket.com – A Case of IPLT20 Fever?

After creating zones for the Kolkatta Knight Riders and a Game Based on Ishant Sharma, Zapak has also launched ZapakCricket.com.

All of Zapak’s cricket games are available on Zapak Cricket. There has been no official press release about the same from Zapak neither has anyone in the blogosphere written about this. Moreover on the Zapak portal it says ‘Just [...]

CricInfo Launches Mobicast for the iPhone

A few months back we had announced that Cricinfo has launched live ‘mobicasts’ i.e. ball-by-ball update and scorecard service for Internet/GPRS enabled mobile phones.

ESPN owned Cricinfo, announced the launch of Cricinfo Mobicast for Apple’s iPhone today.

Mobicast is the first full-fledged cricket widget for iPhone.

iPhone users will now have access to Cricinfo’s famous, live, ball-by-ball updates, scorecard, match schedules, [...]