HCL Tech wins multi-year deal for Cricket Australia

HCL will control Cricket Australia’s suite of digital products, along with properties such as the Cricket Australia Live App and community cricket purposes such as MyCricket.

HCL Technologies won a multi-year contract to manipulate Cricket Australia’s (CA) digital properties, beautify its digital presence and grant an immersive journey to cricket fans, players, partners, employees, and volunteers across the country and around the world.
Cricket Australia is a governing physique for professional and novice cricket in Australia. It operates all of the Australian national representative cricket sides, which include the Australian cricket team, the Australia national women’s cricket team, and childhood aspects as well.
HCL will engineer a digital core ecosystem for Cricket Australia thru a composable platform that will be modular, auto-scalable, data-driven and experience-centric, integrating a couple of enterprise general products and offerings to enhance the ride for fans and participants. The pinnacle three deliverables for the company are consumer experience, net and cell application improvement and data analytics.
“Cricket Australia prefer to revamp their digital program. They want to bring together cricket fans, players, personnel and volunteers in an ecosystem,” said Swapan Johri, Executive Vice President & Head – APAC Business, at HCL Technologies. “Any vertical that is going via a digital transformation interests us. Sports is an increasing market space. We hope to replicate this success in greater places.”
In 2015, HCL Technologies has received a three-year contract to handle tech operations at soccer club Manchester United.
The business enterprise said Cricket Australia has an on line target audience exceeding 20 million globally per year and has established and maintained its role as the No.1 sports vacation spot in Australia at some point of the summer, attaining a record special Australian audience of 2.87 million in January 2019 alone.
HCL will manipulate Cricket Australia’s suite of digital products, inclusive of residences such as the Cricket Australia Live App, cricket.com.au, bigbash.com.au and community cricket purposes such as MyCricket and community.cricket.com.au.
“Cricket is swiftly evolving here and overseas, and section of that evolution includes advancements in technological know-how and the digital landscape,” stated Cricket Australia’s CEO Kevin Roberts.
“We are extremely joyful to companion with Cricket Australia and consider that this partnership will serve as a blueprint for enterprises international who are exploring technology systems that can scale current fee chains into ecosystem-centric business models, resulting in inspiring and fantastic experiences,” said Michael Horton, HCL Executive Vice President & Country Manager, Australia & New Zealand.