Champion off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, the highest wicket taker in both versions of the game (Test and ODI) and former New Zealand skipper Stephen Flemming along with Dialog launched yet another first to transform and revolutionize cricket by introducing DialogCricHQ.Com at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Oak Room .

 

Dialog Cricket launch: Former New Zealand captain Stephen Flemming (left)and Sri Lanka’s retired off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan explaining to the gathering as to how effective the new Web Site  CricHQ which was launched recently at the Cinnamon Grand Oak Room. Pic: Kavindra Perera

Muralitharan and his company M Sports with the collaboration of Dialog Axiata launched the concept of CricHQ for the first time in Asia, even ahead of India. It provides information of all players, of all cricket matches, domestic, including schools ,clubs ,statistics ,graphics and many more through an Ipad which will be utilised during all matches. All information will be fed into the outside world and the cricket enthusiats will be able to gather the information by browsing the website.

 

Ipads were presented to 74 schools and 20 clubs engaged in domestic cricket. The schools from Jaffna too was included to be a part of the modern technology.

 

Both ‘Murali’ and Flemming believed that modern day cricket and the ever increasing modern technology will go hand -in-hand for the rest of the years and stressed that technology coupled with the shorter versions of the game has made matches more result oriented, than in the past and even seen Test matches not going the full distance of five days.