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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).

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.

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.

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 [...]

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, [...]

This comes in via Pahwa from CS. Live Current Media Inc, a Vancouver, Canada based company has bagged the portal rights of the Indian Premier League for 10 years for $50 million (Rs. 200 Cr.)
 
 
The owners apparently paid Rs. 400 Cr. for a 10-year franchise so this sounds like a reasonable deal. The only concern is, with [...]

At a recent auction on sedo.com for dot mobi domains generated astonishing results! A domain name music.mobi was sold for UDS $616000.
 
Other domain names such as games.mobi, sports.mobi, movies.mobi were sold for USD $401,500, $101,000 and $82,000 respectively.
 
Such astonishing figures would have benefited certain smart individuals greatly because they would have paid $9.99 for the [...]

NDTV relaunches its revamped site cricketNdtv.com. But we do have lots of other cricket sites that updates us with the scores.Then what will make
cricketNdtv.com survive in the market?
 
Is cricketNdtv.com different from other cricket sites?
 
Not much, cricketNdtv.com has a few features like Instaspeak which allows the users to share their views instantly by chatting and [...]

The mobile phone user base in India has grown to 250 million as of now with more than 6-7 million subscribers adding each month! Such a huge audience on their mobile phones cannot be ignored and probably thats the reason that crickets leading site Cricinfo has launched a ‘Cricinfo mobicast‘ which is a live, ball-by-ball [...]

Nimbus Sport have launched www.nimbuscricket.com in an aim to deliver cricket web-offerings globally. They would be starting off with live streaming of the 6 ODI matches in Ireland & Scotland during June-July.
The website will be fully operational from 23rd June (tomorrow) reports IndianTelevision.com. If that is the case, I think the design team needs to [...]

Well Reebok are the latest to join the online bandwagon of Cricket oriented marketing. Well I do wish that this at least inspires India to a better performance later today when they face Sri Lanka in an extremely crucial world cup game. Millions of advertising dollars are at stake and if India does manage to [...]

I am sure you would have seen the latest Nike Ad, which captures the very essence and passion of cricket in India. It has been shot quite brilliantly, the back-ground score is awesome and the cricketers (Zaheer Khan and Sreesanth) for a change don’t hog the limelight.
A search for the string: Nike India on [...]

Agencyfaqs: Well here comes another social network for cricket fanatics. Afetr the launch of Sixer.tv which is backed by Linus capital here comes CrickeM a  Social Video Network for Cricket. And like sixer it has videos, blogs and a club for cricket fanatics. According to Mr. Sashi Chimala, co-founder, CrickeM “The YouTube of India in the [...]

Hindu: It was only recently that Cricinfo.com shifted its global headquarters from London to Bangalore and with the change of location to arguably the most cricket crazy country has brought about a positive change in their future plans as well.
So Cricinfo which is a part of Wisden plans to launch Cricinfo 3D, an online application that will [...]

          So here is the latest from the Techno Savvy Indian Cricket Management. While Wipro and Infosys were fighting for the Official website of BCCI and Video Analyst S Ramki is into Optimization of his new tools  for Performace Analysis, here comes the latest Gizmo in Training and Fitness Analysis. Indian Team Trainer Gregory Allen [...]