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CricInfo puts Australian women's cricket to the fore Full coverage of Australian Women's National League as World Cup approaches 13 October 2000
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Graham McKechnie CricInfo.com, the world's leading cricket web site and host of the official web site of the ACB (www.baggygreen.com.au), is to provide live in-depth coverage of the Australian women's domestic and international seasons. Beginning this weekend with the match between the Southern Australian Scorpions and the New South Wales Blues, live ball-by-ball scorecards will be available of all of the women's internationals and all National League matches. The coverage of the CricInfo's Women's World Cup beginning on 28th November in New Zealand will include live video and audio of every game as well as a host of other online interactive features. The build up to the tournament has already begun on the web site wwc2000.cricinfo.com, with features and interviews with key players from around the world. Ten of the players involved in the matches at the weekend are in the preliminary Australian squad for the CricInfo's Women's World Cup, including national captain Belinda Clark. The Southern Australian Scorpions and the New South Wales Blues play two 50 over matches at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday and Sunday in the opening matches of the Women's National Cricket League The CricInfo Women's World Cup will see holders line up against seven other nations: hosts New Zealand, England, India, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Ireland and The Netherlands. The opening match pits the two tournament favourites up against each other, as Australia take on holders New Zealand on 29th November.
NOTES TO EDITORS: CricInfo is the title sponsor: the tournament is officially called the "CricInfo Women's World Cup 2000". The tournament, the seventh of its kind, runs from 28th November to 23rd December 2000 in and around Christchurch, New Zealand. The CricInfo Women's World Cup will be the single biggest international event hosted by New Zealand Cricket since the 1992 men's world cup. There will be a total of 31 games including 28 round robin games, two semi-finals and a final. CricInfo's web site, wwc2000.cricinfo.com, will provide exclusive ground-breaking interactive coverage of the tournament, using the complete range of multimedia elements including video and audio, as well as ball-by-ball text commentary from every game. The first Women's World Cup was held in England in 1973, and was to be the forerunner of the first men's World Cup in 1975. Australia (four times) and England (twice) have won the previous six Women's World Cup tournaments. The last final, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, was attended by more than 80,000 people. All matches in the CricInfo Women's World Cup 2000 will be played at three venues in Christchurch - BIL Oval, Lincoln Green at Lincoln University, and the Hagley Park Oval. ABOUT CRICINFO LIMITED: www.baggygreen.com.au is the official home of Australian cricket on the Internet. The site, powered by CricInfo, was launched in 1998 and is a joint venture with ninemsn and the ACB. It is the single most popular web site in Australia, with up to 5 million page impressions a day. CricInfo Limited is the world's leading digital cricket information company. CricInfo's web site, www.cricinfo.com, is the most popular cricket site in the world and is among the Internet's most popular sports sites, estimated to reach more than fifteen million fans in 180 countries. The site records upwards of 60 million page impressions per month and generated a record audience of 95 million in March 2000. CricInfo has its Head Office in the UK, with regional offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zimbabwe. CricInfo works with cricket boards and cricket organisations, blue chip companies and the media to deliver cricket content for a wide range of different platforms. It currently produces official sites for seven of the ten Test-playing countries, for the ICC and for a number of domestic teams worldwide. For further information, please contact:
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