Steve Watkin loosens up with first 'Net' session of the season

Glamorgan cricket supporters will be able to log on to the Club's official web site this Sunday (www.glamorgancricket.com) for a post-match online chat with Dragons' star Steve Watkin. The new interactive facility, developed by web hosts CricInfo, will debut after Glamorgan's first Norwich Union National Cricket League game - against Surrey Lions at Sophia Gardens - at 7.20pm on April 30th. Questions for Steve Watkin can be emailed in advance by completing the form on the site.

Glamorgan was the first county side to launch an official web site and www.glamorgancricket.com is the most popular county site on CricInfo. The worldwide network of sites run by CricInfo is also home to the ICC, five of the nine Test playing nations and a number of other domestic sides and cricket organisations around the globe. CricInfo recently passed a total of one billion page impressions and reaches more than ten million fans in over 180 countries.

Glamorgan recently announced that CricInfo is to sponsor the first floodlit match at Sophia Gardens, which will take place between the Glamorgan Dragons and the Essex Eagles on June 13th.

ABOUT CRICINFO

CricInfo Ltd. is the world's leading digital cricket publisher. CricInfo's web site, www.cricinfo.com, is the most popular cricket site in the world and the Internet's most popular single-sport site, reaching more than ten million fans in 180 countries. The site generated 95,536,300 page impressions during March 2000.

Glamorgancricket.com was launched in conjunction with CricInfo in August 1996, it was the first such site in the U.K.

CricInfo works with cricket boards and cricket organisations, blue chip companies and the media to deliver cricket content for a wide range of different platforms. It currently produces official sites for five of the nine Test-playing countries.

CricInfo produces CricInfo 365, the free daily email newsletter, which has more than 150,000 subscribers, making it the world's most popular cricket subscription publication. More than 50,000 people have participated in cricket fantasy games on CricInfo sites in the last year.