Yahoo India Launches Cricket App for Windows Phone Users

Yahoo India has launched a cricket app for Windows Phone users in India. The app, available for free on the Windows Marketplace allows users to follow live matches, and also keep a tab on the recent and upcoming ones.

The app offers live scores, detailed ball-by-ball commentary which can be filtered by wickets, 4s and 6s; an interactive score card which allows the user to browse through the batting line up, fall of wickets and a complete chronology of how a match progressed. On a non-match day, the app will connect the user to photo-galleries, latest news articles on the game, player and team profiles, as well as results of completed matches, and schedules of upcoming ones.

Developed at the R&D centre in Bangalore, this is the third cricket app released by Yahoo, following the earlier apps built for iPhone and Android. Yahoo claims that its Android app has seen 11,000 downloads within 10 days of launch.

Yahoo! Cricket is the best place to enjoy the game of cricket (and not just follow) on the web, and now you can do that on your Windows phone too. This App comes with a slew of features and user-friendly interactions not seen on any Cricket App for and Windows phone yet.

App Description:

Here are some of them:

• A quick look at all the live scores of matches currently happening.
• A very interactive scorecard. Browse through the batting line-up to know about partnerships, who got out when, and who is coming up next.
• Provides users with various ways of enjoying a cricket match – from the basic scores, all the way up to a detailed ball-by-ball commentary
• Nifty shortcuts like shaking to refresh scores, flipping to switch between a summary view and a detailed view
• View specially created photo galleries showing the latest from the world of cricket.
• Read all the latest news articles on the game.
• A simple way to browse through results of completed matches, and to know schedules of upcoming matches.
• Browse through all international teams and players

Download the free app here

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