The governing body for cricket in Australia, Cricket Australia, has named CricViz, the world’s leading cricket data and analytics provider, as its official data collection services and high-performance partner.
The multi-year deal is part of a data centralisation effort that will provide a unified, dependable statistics platform for Cricket Australia.
Cricket Australia will benefit from cutting-edge data and analytics capabilities to help its men’s and women’s high-performance programs. Furthermore, Cricket Australia fans will benefit from enhanced match coverage, live insights, and interactive digital experiences powered by CricViz’s real-time data widgets, editorialised insights, and predictive data feeds.
CricViz will deliver a full array of goods and services under the deal, including:
● Analytics Services: Employ Query Tool, Centurion, and Video Scorecard to analyse performance data and videos.
● 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 interaction: Editorial insights for social media and digital interaction, including CricViz MVP player ratings, data streams, historical statistics, and digital platform widgets.
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 agreement strengthens CricViz’s position as the industry leader in performance analysis. CricViz currently delivers data services to nine of the 12 Test-playing nations, as well as a number of the world’s leading cricket bodies, tournaments, and franchises, thanks to a partnership with Cricket Australia.
