Pitchero Announces ECB Partnership
Sports website service, Pitchero, has partnered with ECB’s Play-Cricket.com site to provide cricket clubs access to live, real-time data from their Pitchero website.
From the start of the 2015 cricket season, clubs, leagues and county boards who use the ECB’s Play-Cricket.com platform will be able to access all the information in one place through a live feed on their Pitchero website, saving club officials, scorers and team managers hours of time every week.
Benefiting over 1,400 Pitchero Cricket clubs, the collaboration means clubs will no longer have to duplicate match results across both platforms, by inputting results once into Play-Cricket.com. Instead, the results will appear instantly on their Pitchero website and ensure it is up-to-date with the latest match information.
Paul Bedford, head of non first class cricket at the ECB, commented: ‘We are delighted to be working with Pitchero. The integration of the Play-Cricket.com results into the club websites will give clubs and leagues the capability and convenience to be able to access everything in one place.’
‘Many clubs demand the best front end technology to match their requirements and the partnership with Pitchero means they do not have to compromise. Clubs can continue to use Play-Cricket.com for their match results safe in the knowledge their Pitchero website is completely up-to-date.’
‘As Pitchero is used by a significant proportion of the cricket community, we feel the partnership is valuable and will strengthen our relationship with clubs and leagues,’ Bedford continued.
Mark Fletcher, CEO of Pitchero, added: ‘This is an exciting opportunity for Pitchero and our 1,400 cricket clubs. Over the last seven years we have strived to create the number one club, league and county board platform and working in partnership with the ECB allows us to provide an even better service to our members.’
‘The relationship will not only benefit the cricket clubs using Pitchero but also means we can continue to deliver valuable participation and player frequency data to the ECB. 2015 will be an exciting year for everyone in cricket.’
The primary purpose of the platform is to record league and match information including team and player statistics, compiling a vast archive of cricket statistics and scores over the past ten years.
Following the ECB partnership ,Pitchero has begun offering a new range of products and services which support the programmes of national governing bodies, specifically those aimed at improving participation, recruitment and communication with member clubs, leagues and county organisations.
The new services utilise the bank of real time participation data collected by Pitchero across 17,000 sports clubs and 1.2 million registered sports participants.
