CricBuzz


CricBuzz is an Indian cricket news website owned by Times Internet. It features news, articles and live coverage of cricket matches including videos, scorecards, text commentary, player stats and team rankings. Their website also offers a mobile app. CricBuzz is one of the most popular mobile apps for cricket news and scores in India.

History

CricBuzz was created by Pankaj Chhaparwal and Pravin Hegde in 2004. In 2010, CricBuzz started developing a mobile app for live cricket news and scores.
In November 2014, Times Internet, a subsidiary of Times of India acquired a majority stake in CricBuzz for an undisclosed sum. The website continues to be managed by the original founders.
In January 2015, Times Internet-owned GoCricket was merged into Cricbuzz. GoCricket's website was redirected to Cricbuzz and the GoCricket mobile app was also merged with that of CricBuzz.

Popularity

In October 2019, CricBuzz was ranked 406 globally and 40 in India by Alexa Internet. The site was the 7th most searched for site in India in 2014. The mobile app has over 100 million downloads as of October 2019 and the website is used by more than 50 million users worldwide, generating 2.6 billion page views in Jan 2015.

Sponsorship

In August 2015, CricBuzz was named the title sponsor of the India-Sri Lanka test series.