 espncricinfo (formerly cricinfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. the site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and statsguru, a database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present. it is edited by sambit bal. the site, originally conceived in a pre-world wide web form in 1993 by dr simon king, was acquired in 2002 by the wisden grouppublishers of several notable cricket magazines and the wisden cricketers' almanack. as part of an eventual breakup of the wisden group, it was sold to espn, jointly owned by the walt disney company and hearst corporation, in 2007. ==history== cricinfo was launched on 15 march 1993 by dr simon king, a british researcher at the university of minnesota with help from students and researchers at universities around the world. badri seshadri was the co-founder and managing director of cricinfo who after a long time with cricinfo from 1993, moved to his own regional language-publishing venture. while a company, cricinfo ltd, was formed in 1996, cricinfo remained a volunteer-run operation until late 1999 and was not fully staffed until late 2000. the site was reliant on contributions from fans around the world who spent hours compiling electronic scorecards and contributing them to cricinfo's c
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