''Cricinfo Magazine'' was a monthly
cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...
magazine
A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...
published by the
Wisden Group
The Wisden Group was a group of companies formed by John Wisden & Co Ltd, publishers of ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack''. As well as John Wisden & Co, the group included the magazine '' The Wisden Cricketer'', Cricinfo – the world's highest traff ...
from January 2006
to July 2007. Infomedia was the publisher.
The magazine, focused on
cricket in India
Cricket is the most popular sport in India. It is played almost everywhere in the country. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is the governing body of Indian cricket and conduct all domestic tournaments and select the players for the In ...
, and co-branded with
Cricinfo
ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a Sports journalism, sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including Liveblogging, liveblogs and sco ...
, replaced Wisden's previous ''
Wisden Asia Cricket
''Wisden Asia Cricket'' was a monthly English-language cricket magazine produced by the British-based cricket publishing company Wisden.
History and profile
''Wisden Asia Cricket'' was founded in 2001. The first issue was published in Decembe ...
''.
The founding editorial team, led by Sambit Bal, was inherited from ''Wisden Cricket Asia''. The magazine was discontinued after the July 2007 edition, shortly after
ESPN
ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...
acquired ''Cricinfo'' from Wisden in June 2007.
See also
*''
The Wisden Cricketer
''The Wisden Cricketer'' was the world's best-selling monthly cricket magazine. It was incorporated in 2003, by a merger between '' The Cricketer'' magazine and '' Wisden Cricket Monthly''. It is now no longer connected to Wisden and is called ' ...
'' the Wisden Group's UK focused cricket magazine, which was sold to
British Sky Broadcasting
Sky UK Limited (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited (BSkyB)), trading as Sky, is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television, broadband internet, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers a ...
in April 2007
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2007 disestablishments in India
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