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Broome makes webcasting history First live Internet cricket broadcast from this weekend's Western Warriors matches 22 September 2000
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Graham McKechnie This weekend marks a momentous development in the broadcasting of regional cricket in Australia. The Western Warriors will be playing two touring sides in Broome, Western Australia and for the first time in Broome's cricketing history live ball-by-ball scorecards of all the weekend's play will be broadcast on the Internet, via CricInfo.com. The Victorian Bushrangers and KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins take on the Warriors on the 23rd and 24th respectively, with both matches scheduled to start at 10am. All three squads boast both former and current internationals and with the likes of Brendan Julian, Murray Goodwin, Tom Moody, Paul Reiffel and Damien Fleming taking part, two closely contested matches are anticipated. Tobian Clayton, CricInfo's Australian Manager said "Involvement in these types of matches renews our commitment to CricInfo users to cover cricket at all levels." ABOUT CRICINFO LIMITED CricInfo.com hosts www.baggygreen.com.au, the official web site of the ACB and www.nswblues.com, the official web site of Cricket New South Wales. baggygreen.com is a joint venture with ninemsn. 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 gets upwards of 60 million page impressions per month, and peaked at 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, Zimbabwe, the USA and London. 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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