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Monday, February 26, 2001
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Forget TV — surf Web for cricket

Match-fixing, infighting and fallen heroes (read players). Cricket has survived it all. The Australian cricket team that arrived on February 14 is all set for its first Test in Mumbai tomorrow. Some of the sites that offer detailed information are:

www.thatscricket.com

Click on this site if you want to surf for more cricket comments, news and views, besides keeping a ball-by-ball account of the match. This site is one of the numerous vortals being offered by Indiainfo.com Limited, an integrated Internet company that delivers content, community and commerce to Indian consumers and businesses. On the home page are links to cricket news, schedules, columnists, cricket info, statistics, match reports and photo gallery. Another section, Services, has sub-sections like Score kya hai, mobile and messenger. The Trivia section consists of interesting information bits related to cricket.

 

www.cricket.org

Click on this Web site and home page asks the person concerned to select the server closest to his country. The site, nicknamed cricinfo, provides the latest in the form of scoreboard. An interesting hyperlink is "What happened today in cricket history" on the home page wherein events on this-day-that-year are mentioned. Besides providing information on the cricket front the site also offers various prizes through competitions.

www.khel.com

Cricket is one of the games that this site deals in besides tennis, hockey, football, golf, and chess. Click on the cricket page and the surfer can access anything related to cricket. The site has a player birthday section also. Cricket schedules from the world over are listed on the left-hand corner and photographs are also stacked match wise.

www.cricket.com

Live matches, latest news and the recent scores — the site has it all. The surfer is required to sign up for free to get site e-mail. The home page has sections on channels, recent ODIs, Hot spot, recent tests and player of the week. The cricket directory (misspelt Dicretory) covers interesting statistics. Though the site is a vortal on cricket yet it provides links to soccer, tennis, basketball, golf and boxing news in its extras section.

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