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In December 1996, Cricinfo received a boost when the Zimbabwe Cricket Union agreed to host its official website on the site. Zimbabwe was then the youngest Test nation, and the country's cricket board was hoping to gain some recognition by being associated with an increasingly popular website. In February 2000, Cricinfo decided to fund the Zimbabwe cricket board to the tune of £80,000, which doubled the country's annual cricket development budget. In an interview in 2001, Simon King, one of the site's founders, described it as "one of the most fulfilling moments of my career".
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