London And Melbourne, Apr 29: CricViz, the world’s leading cricket data and analytics provider, has been appointed as Official Data Collection Services and High Performance Partner for Cricket Australia, the national governing body for the game of cricket in Australia. The multi-year agreement is part of a data centralisation project that will establish a single, reliable statistics platform for Cricket Australia.
Cricket Australia will benefit from state-of-the-art data and analytics tools to support its men’s and women’s high–performance programmes. Further, Cricket Australia’s fans will enjoy richer match coverage, live insights and interactive digital experiences built on CricViz’s real-time data widgets, editorialised insights and predictive data feeds.
As part of the agreement, CricViz will provide a comprehensive suite of products and services, including:
- Analytics Services: Access to a dedicated suite of performance data and video analysis products – Query Tool, Centurion and Video Scorecard.
- Live Data Collection and Downstream Infrastructure: CricViz’s FastPath collection system, ball-by-ball video tagging, and downstream software (including enhanced LED scoreboard, reporting portal and streaming graphics).
- Fan Engagement: Editorial insights for social media and digital engagement, CricViz MVP player ratings model, data feeds, historical data and widgets for digital platforms.
Michael Kivido, Managing Director for CricViz, said, “Cricket Australia is one of the most sophisticated cricket organisations in the world, and this partnership reflects what CricViz is building globally – a single, trusted data infrastructure that serves High Performance, Broadcast and Fan Engagement all under one roof. We are proud to add Cricket Australia to our growing network of official rightsholder partners and we’re looking forward to a long and productive relationship.”
James Allsopp, Chief of Cricket at Cricket Australia, added, “Data and video analytics are an enormously important aspect of team performance and we’re delighted this partnership will provide our teams access to CricViz‘s state-of-the-art analytics products.
“The partnership will also greatly enhance our coverage of the game for fans across our sites and social media platforms and help further enrich their experience.”
This partnership reinforces CricViz’s reputation as the industry leader in performance analysis. By partnering with Cricket Australia, CricViz now provides data services to nine of the 12 Test-playing nations, as well as a collection of the world’s top cricket organisations, tournaments and franchises.
