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Satyam

In June 2000, Satyam Infoway, an internet service provider, and the first Indian company to be listed on NASDAQ, bought a 25% stake in Cricinfo for US$37.5 million. Satyam was the largest investor through the years of the dotcom bust (when Cricinfo was one of the few sports websites around to resist collapse) but eventually sold the site to Paul Getty's Wisden Group in 2003. =====

Scoring

Rare is the professional cricket match that is not recorded on ESPNcricinfo. Hundreds of scorers across the globe, battling dodgy internet connections, sleep, and more, pounding away at their keyboards at all hours have played a big role in keeping the site's heartbeat going. In 2005, Cricinfo hired the services of Feedback Sport, in partnership with Lupo Data Concepts, to develop a customised real-time scoring software to replace the existing system, dougie, which did not support extensive data capture. This system has since been upgraded over the years to record decision reviews, dropped catches, dismissal summaries, player v player data, types of runs, Powerplays and more. =====

Statsguru

The brainchild of Travis Basevi, one of the early volunteers who helped create the Cricinfo database, Statsguru remains the ultimate destination for cricket anoraks who have an hour or ten to kill. As a statistical tool that allows you to analyse, among other things, players, partnerships, teams, and grounds, Statsguru has helped resolve many an inflamed argument. So influential is its role that cricket writing and discussion can be broadly classed under two categories: Before Statsguru and After Statsguru. =====

Surfer

A section on the site where you will find links to the best cricket writing from around the web. Launched as a blog in 2005 to replace the Best of the Web section, the Surfer gathers together the most relevant commentary on the game from all over the internet every day.