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Kumble spins software for cricket lovers

>From Indo-Asian News Service

Bangalore, Jan 25 (IANS) Indian cricketer Anil Kumble is spinning
 software ahead of the World Cup to help cricket lovers keep track
 of the game and bowl googlies with the help of his company's
 products.

StumpVision, a software company promoted by Anil and his brother
 Dinesh, has launched three products aimed at the cricket
 enthusiast, cricket clubs, associations as well as the official
 scorers.

Cricket Safari, a CD-ROM based product, is an encyclopaedia of the
 World Cup coupled with an interactive multimedia quiz.

"We have added a human touch to our basket of products. Zippy (the
 animated mascot) will guide the user," says Kumble, whose
 seven-year-old company will begin retailing the product from next
 month.

But it is Scorite -- a tool for the scorer, the amateur statistician
 or the cricket enthusiast -- that Dinesh Kumble is more
 enthusiastic about.

"There is really no record of what Anil or Rahul Dravid did in their
 school days. Scorite will facilitate that. And we are looking at
 the global market for this product as well," Dinesh Kumble said on
 the sidelines of the products' launch here.

If Scorite is a desktop product, www.cricketeronline.com helps any
 club, association, school or even individual players to register
 and keep a record of their games and achievements.

"There is really nothing in the world that touches the
 grassroots-level cricket enthusiast," Dinesh Kumble adds.

"The amount of data that you see in the graphics on television is
 immense. Our software and products could be the vehicle for that
 delivery," adds Deepak Patil, CEO of India's exclusive sports
 software company.

--Indo-Asian News Service