Cricket Australia announced today a partnership with Melbourne based online sports management company, InteractSport, to provide a national online cricket management system, to enhance administration and statistics gathering for players at all levels. During the announcement, Australian cricketer Michael Clarke endorsed the partnership:
“It’s an exciting step for cricket and for all community players out there who, in this system, will be treated the same as international cricketers. It means that if you’re playing in your local Under 12’s team you can compare your statistics and results with not only your team mates and opponents, but every other Under 12 player in the country.” InteractSport initially developed the ResultsVault Cricket system in 1999 for the use of a handful of Melbourne based cricket clubs. It now services more than 2200 cricket organisations world wide involving more than 190,000 players. The details and statistics from over 280,000 matches is available online covering clubs from Bunbury to North Texas, Glenorchy to Rotorua and Emu Plains to Durban. InteractSport Director, Andrew Walton, says:
“After an extensive process it is a great honour for us to be selected by Cricket Australia to provide the online systems that will power the national cricket management solution. This will be the biggest and most comprehensive program of its kind in sport in Australia and the end result will be a world class platform that will encourage the growth of the sport at the grassroots level.” Cricket state bodies will be strongly encouraging community clubs to register their interest for the ResultsVault system prior to next season, to utilise the online system’s features including: registrations, fixture generating, full score cards, player statistics, ladders, team communication and media reports. Cricket Australia Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland stated:
“Partnering with InteractSport to implement a National cricket management solution will ensure that Australian cricket continues to meet the future challenges, ease the increasing administration burden at all levels and co-ordinate our resources more effectively within the game. Online competitions, results and statistics is also an ideal medium to bring diverse communities together to celebrate cricket. We are delighted in this outcome to strengthen the relationships that exist in Australian cricket.” |