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World Service,3 mins

The smartphone revolution in cricket scoring

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To cricket purists, a completed score-sheet is both a permanent record of a match - and a work of art. By deciphering its collection of pencil-drawn dots, lines and numbers, you can determine the ebb and flow of a contest that took place long before the age of radio or TV. And yet, the art of traditional scoring appears to be dying out as technology provides simple new of ways of keeping score. At the forefront of this change is an app called CricHQ. The app not only provides live scoring, but also - by encouraging clubs to install fixed cameras at their grounds- live video streaming of amateur matches from every corner of the globe. Sam Sheringham went along to Bury Cricket Club in the Greater Manchester League to see the new technology in action...

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