''Cricinfo Magazine'' was a monthly
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
magazine published by the
Wisden Group from January 2006
to July 2007. The publisher was Infomedia.
The magazine, focused on
cricket in India
Cricket has been the most popular sport in India in modern era since the British Raj, and is played almost everywhere in the country. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the governing body of Indian cricket and conduct all dom ...
, and co-branded with
Cricinfo, 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 December ...
''.
The founding editorial team, led by
Sambit Bal
Sambit Bal is an Indian journalist who was born and brought up in Bhubaneswar, India. He spent 15 years in mainstream journalism working in some of India's leading publishing houses before joining Wisden in 2001. He was the first editor of '' Wisd ...
, was inherited from ''Wisden Cricket Asia''. The magazine was discontinued after the July 2007 edition, shortly after
ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). Th ...
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 created 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 Cri ...
'' the Wisden Group's UK focused cricket magazine, which was sold to
British Sky Broadcasting
Sky UK Limited is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television and broadband Internet services, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of ...
in April 2007
References
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2007 disestablishments in India
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