ESPNcricinfo

What is ESPNcricinfo?

ESPNcricinfo is a cricket website carrying news, live scorecards, ball-by-ball commentary, analysis and a historical statistics database. It is owned by ESPN, which acquired it in June 2007 for a price that was not disclosed.^[2]

Its published contact page lists three offices: London, at 3 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith; Bengaluru, at Ground Floor, Cherry Hills, EGL Business Park, operating as ESPN Digital Media (India) Private Limited; and New York, at 77 West 66th Street under ESPN International.^[1] The Indian entity is the operating company named on that page for India, which is the documented basis for treating the title as having an Indian editorial base rather than only an Indian readership.

What does ESPNcricinfo cover?

The site covers cricket only, across formats and across the international and domestic game, with scorecards, statistics and reporting.

Its coverage of the Indian game extends past match reporting into the sport's commercial structure. The site reported the Indian Premier League media-rights auction that began on 12 June 2022 in detail, giving the split of the 2023 to 2027 packages — ₹23,575 crore for the Indian subcontinent television rights and ₹23,758 crore for the digital and overseas packages, out of a total tender of ₹48,390.5 crore — together with per-match values and the match counts for each season of the cycle.^[3]

It reported the Board of Control for Cricket in India's separate bilateral media-rights tender on 31 August 2023, giving the winning figure of ₹5,963 crore, about US$720 million, for the 2023 to 2028 cycle covering 88 international matches in India, split ₹3,101 crore for digital and ₹2,862 crore for television, at ₹67.75 crore a match.^[4]

How large is ESPNcricinfo's audience?

No current measured audience figure for the site in India could be retrieved for this page. The measurement body for digital audiences in India is Comscore, which publishes an India edition of a sports digital report; the 2025 edition, as reported in the Indian trade press, carried a figure of 53 million unique visitors for a rival Indian cricket site and no figure for ESPNcricinfo in the material retrieved.^[5]

The one dated figure available is historical and global rather than Indian. At the time of the ESPN acquisition in June 2007 the site was reported to have in excess of 7 million unique visitors a month.^[2] A 2007 figure is not evidence of a 2026 audience and is given here only as the dated record it is.

Since when has ESPNcricinfo existed?

The site was launched in 1993.^[2]

Ownership and name changed later and separately. The ESPN acquisition followed in June 2007, and it was that transaction that produced the present masthead.^[2] Founding, acquisition and rebranding are three separate events with three separate dates and are not merged here.

No founding date for the Bengaluru operating company could be retrieved; the contact page establishes that it exists and where, not when it was incorporated.^[1]

Why does ESPNcricinfo matter in India's sport?

Its Indian base is documented on the site's own contact page, which names an Indian company, ESPN Digital Media (India) Private Limited, with a Bengaluru address, as the entity behind its India operation.^[1] What that desk produces is on the record too — the auction figures, package splits and per-match values of Indian cricket's media-rights cycles are reported there in primary detail.^[3][4]

The offices named on that contact page — London, Bengaluru and New York — are the documented shape of the operation.^[1]