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Cricket Information

There are literally hundreds of cricket information sites on the web. Here are our recommendations for those that give you the best quality information about the different aspects of the game.

For more details on skills master classes, laws and equipment, women’s cricket, coaching, juniors and how you can get involved click here to find out more about BBC Cricket.

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Cricinfo labels itself as “the home of cricket on the internet”. It’s one of the top 500 most popular web sites in the world. It opened in 1993 and it’s integrated with Cricinfo sites in all the test playing countries. It gives the latest scores and fixtures worldwide, and much more. However, there are no coaching or junior sections.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the governing body of world cricket. Their site is attractive and user friendly, and is high in the global web traffic rankings. If you need to know original information about any aspect of world cricket, this is the place to start.

The site also displays the league tables for the ICC world test cricket and ODI championships, as well as providing details of rules and regulations, umpires, women’s cricket and global cricket development.

The national cricket associations are the best source of cricket information in your country. Of these, the ECB and Cricket Australia sites are outstanding, with information on national and domestic cricket. They include pages for cricket clubs, fans, women and kids, as well as cricket development, archive material and statistics.

Cricket broadcasters have immediate access to the latest scores. Try the sites of ABC Sport, BBC Sport or Sky Sports, to keep in touch with the cricket news as it happens. The BBC Sport Cricket site has the added bonus of a comprehensive online coaching section, as well as details about how you can get involved in the game as a volunteer, coach, umpire or scorer.

There are many independent cricket magazine sites, of varying quality. CricketNext, 123India, CricketWorld and Cricket365 are among the best, with detailed up to date articles about world cricket news and the latest scores. All four are well inside the top 1% of global web sites. They all take different editorial angles, so you may want to follow the one that suits your taste.

Cricket is developing in parts of the world that would have seemed very unlikely, even ten years ago. Cricket information web sites are playing their part in spreading the word about the game.

The USA has major potential for cricket development. Cricket is being slowly popularised by foreign nationals, despite massive competition from Baseball. However, there are new signs of grassroots support at junior level. You could try the USACA site for more details.

China became an Affiliate Member of the ICC in 2004. The Asian Cricket Council has a 10 year plan to develop the game in China, with the support of the ICC. Cricket is alien to most Chinese, but has already been established at over 50 schools in Beijing and Shanghai. A Chinese Women’s team toured Europe in 2007. What price China qualifying for the 2019 Cricket World Cup?

There are many cricket portal sites, providing links to other cricket web sites. The portals rarely give unbiased descriptions of their partner sites, many of which are simply poor quality. However, Howstat is extremely popular and provides lots of well organised, high quality links, as well statistics and ratings. It’s well worth a look.

And finally, do you have opinions about the latest world cricket issues? Want to debate them with like minded fans? Why not try out the latest cricket blog web site?

Quite rightly for the great game, there are many cricket sites on the web. The top ones have achieved a level of excellence that is helping to promote the sport globally. If you start with Cricinfo then explore the others on this page, you’ll soon find the high quality cricket information that you need.