World Cup Cricket 2007: Don't pray for rain

Posted by Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs



If ever cricket lovers needed an excuse to take a trip to the Caribbean, now they have one. The Cricket World Cup 2007 has started today, and it should be a great party. (I myself am a Brit who will hopefully not be praying for rain.)

Once again, the developer community has outdone itself creating useful mashups. The Radioactive Yak has detailed a few of the resources available which include:

• A Google Gadget module that shows the current games on a map of the area
• A Google Earth tour of the venues via a World Cup 2007 Venues KML file
• An up-to-date game schedule on a Google Calendar.

Google India has also made a site available at http://www.google.co.in/cricket with useful tools of its own:

• World cup news gadget
• World cup scores gadget
• A blogging contest for the event
• And much more. Visit the site to participate