CricketWeb turns 20

[James]

Today marks 20 years since CricketWeb first came online on October 12th 2001.


(our first logo)

A big heartfelt thanks from myself to all our contributors and visitors who have helped form a fantastic community of cricket fans and kept the site going this long.

A few statistics to mark the occasion:

• Over 134 million page views since 2008
• Over 11 million unique visitors since 2008
• 28.8% of visitors return to the site since 2008
• 174,000 registrations to CW Games
• 24,000 registrations to the CW Forum with over 4.6 million posts
• Over 30,000 articles posted with the largest collection of Cricket Book Reviews at 1,102.

I'm hoping I'll be able to do some traveling next year and as part of this do some meet-ups with drinks and pizza to properly celebrate the occasion.

Here's to another 20 years, and thanks again for all your support!

Here's a piece of trivia for everyone. There is one currently active member who joined the CW Team when the site first launched and is still posting on the forum to this day. Who is it?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Drinks and pizza

 

[Smudge]

?Happy anniversary, CDub,
Got you on my miiiind?

 

[GIMH]

Here’s to the next 20!

 

[Adders]

Congrats James and the CW community..........marvellous effort that

Not that I need an excuse, but tonight I will get drunk in celebration!

 

[cnerd123]

Best place on the internet to talk cricket, second to none. Here's to another 200.

 

[honestbharani]

Great work by James and everyone else who has been involved in this journey. Its a wonderful forum.

 

[Zinzan]

Congrats on the milestone James & everyone who has been part of it. Quality forum.

 

[Daemon]

Great stuff James, wonderful community here

Great work by James and everyone else who has been involved in this journey. Its a wonderful forum.

No worries, you're welcome hb

 

[GIMH]

As reigning BOTM Champion for this milestone you have to do a speech

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

As reigning BOTM Champion for this milestone you have to do a speech

Could have been awkward if sledger was still the champ.

 

[GIMH]

Could have been awkward if sledger was still the champ.

Who?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Congrats James and the CW community..........marvellous effort that

Not that I need an excuse, but tonight I will get drunk in celebration!

Ditto!

 

[trundler]

Excellent forum with a lovely community and great discussions. Twenty more! I know I'm not alone in this regard but this place takes up a major chunk of every day.

 

[nightprowler10]

Congrats James. What an incredible milestone. It's so surreal that I've been posting here for 17 years and in someway known posters longer than I've known most of my real life friends and acquaintances.

It's so wild to think that I met my SO when I already had 12k posts on CW and just became a mod, and we have had 3 kids since then. Time is weird.

 

[GIMH]

Yep, congrats to James for keeping this community going this long. Yes it's the best cricket forum and website by some distance but it's so much more than that. There are some great people at this place, and also Burgey. Just brilliant.

 

[smash84]

Congrats James, I really hope CW continues for a long long time. It is such a great community and best place to talk cricket on the web, bar none.

 

[smash84]

@James The answer to your trivia.

Is that poster yourself?

 

[James]

@James The answer to your trivia.

Is that poster yourself?

Haha No it's not no.

 

[NZTailender]

Thanks James & co for keeping the forum for going so long, and all the wonderful posters who keep saddos like me hanging around for quality content