‘The first program I ever wrote was Cricinfo’ - Simon King

In the latest episode of the podcast we speak to two pioneers from the early days of the internet: Simon King, the founder of Cricinfo, and Vishal Misra, an early volunteer who was instrumental in the building of the database and streamlining live scoring. Buy Cricket Beyond the Bazaar (recently republished by 81allout) India (hardback) | India (paperback, e-copy); Australia (hardback, paperback, e-copy); USA (hardback, paperback, e-copy); UK (hardback, paperback, e-copy); Canada (hardback, paperback, e-copy) Talking Points: The difficulty of getting cricket updates in the early 1990s Chatrooms, IRC, and begging for score updates The aggregation of cricket fans across North American universities The idea for building a database that would store all cricket information The early pioneers such as KS Rao and Murari Venkatraman The evolution of the Cricinfo scorecard Sending live updates from Malaysia, Kenya, and Bangladesh Travis Basevi - the man who built a wonder-tool called statsguru Vishal's memories from the 1996 World Cup - when live scoring took off The day cricinfo's server crashed in Oregon Participants: Siddhartha Vaidyanathan ( @sidvee ) Simon King Vishal Misra ( @vishalmisra ) * Related: ESPNcricinfo at 20 years - ESPNcricinfo One night in 1996 - Vishal Misra - ESPNcricinfo The wizard Elz - Siddhartha Vaidyanathan - ESPNcricinfo Travis Basevi, my friend who changed the way cricket was consumed - Vishal Misra - ESPNcricinfo Travis Basevi: the Statsguru visionary who transformed cricket - Tanya Aldred - Guardian Cricinfo - How it all began - Rohan Chandran A bot called Cricinfo - Badri Sheshadri - ESPNcricinfo The Cricinfo story - Hosted by Gautam Govitrikar - YouTube