Yahoo! Cricket
Encyclopedia
Yahoo! Cricket is a cricket
-related website
. While in name part of the US-based Yahoo!
's Yahoo! Sports
, it is hosted and administrated by Yahoo! India.
In February 2009, Yahoo! India signed a three-year partnership with the International Cricket Council
(ICC), to become the exclusive online partner for all ICC events. This includes the ICC World Twenty20
, ICC Champions Trophy
and ICC Cricket World Cup. According to comScore
, April 2009 data, Yahoo! Cricket was attracting 2.4 million unique users per month, which ranked it as the top cricket site in India
.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
-related website
Website
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. While in name part of the US-based Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
's Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! Sports was launched on December 8, 1997. It receives a majority of its information from STATS, Inc., employs various writers, and has team pages for teams in almost every North American sport...
, it is hosted and administrated by Yahoo! India.
In February 2009, Yahoo! India signed a three-year partnership with the International Cricket Council
International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...
(ICC), to become the exclusive online partner for all ICC events. This includes the ICC World Twenty20
ICC World Twenty20
The ICC World Twenty20 or ICC World T20 also referred to as the T20 World Cup is the international championship of Twenty20 cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council...
, ICC Champions Trophy
ICC Champions Trophy
The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International cricket tournament, second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out tournament in 1998 and has been played every two years since, changing its name to the Champions Trophy in 2002...
and ICC Cricket World Cup. According to comScore
ComScore
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, April 2009 data, Yahoo! Cricket was attracting 2.4 million unique users per month, which ranked it as the top cricket site in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.