81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast

‘The first program I ever wrote was Cricinfo’ - Simon King

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In the latest episode of the podcast we speak to two pioneers from the early days of the internet: Simon King, the founder of Cricinfo, and Vishal Misra, an early volunteer who was instrumental in the building of the database and streamlining live scoring.

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Talking Points:

  • The difficulty of getting cricket updates in the early 1990s
  • Chatrooms, IRC, and begging for score updates
  • The aggregation of cricket fans across North American universities
  • The idea for building a database that would store all cricket information
  • The early pioneers such as KS Rao and Murari Venkatraman
  • The evolution of the Cricinfo scorecard
  • Sending live updates from Malaysia, Kenya, and Bangladesh
  • Travis Basevi - the man who built a wonder-tool called statsguru
  • Vishal's memories from the 1996 World Cup - when live scoring took off
  • The day cricinfo's server crashed in Oregon

    • Participants:

    Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

    Simon King

    Vishal Misra (@vishalmisra)

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    Related:

    • ESPNcricinfo at 20 years - ESPNcricinfo
    • One night in 1996 - Vishal Misra - ESPNcricinfo
    • The wizard Elz - Siddhartha Vaidyanathan - ESPNcricinfo
    • Travis Basevi, my friend who changed the way cricket was consumed - Vishal Misra - ESPNcricinfo
    • Travis Basevi: the Statsguru visionary who transformed cricket - Tanya Aldred - Guardian
    • Cricinfo - How it all began - Rohan Chandran
    • A bot called Cricinfo - Badri Sheshadri - ESPNcricinfo
    • The Cricinfo story -  Hosted by Gautam Govitrikar - YouTube
      • ...more
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