SIXER Searches Crazy Fans in India

Kochi was the first stop of the ten-city roadshow. Sixer team has met cricket players and fans at the famous Maharaja College, Palace Oval grounds and the Info Park. Cricket players, coaches and students at the Maharaja College has extended warm welcome to the Sixer team and conveyed best wishes to Sreesanth and the rest of the Indian team.

Mr. Gopi Krishnan, a student at Maharaja College shared that “he is an active member of Sixer and visits the site, posts pictures, videos and news around 3-4 times a week. And Sixer is the only website on the planet that allows cricket fans to post content and connect with fans”

Chennai was Sixer’s second stop after Kochi. Sixer team has met with over 300 enthusiastic and crazy cricket fans in five different locations in the city including: Madras Christian college, Chidambaram stadium, Alteress publishing company, St. Bede’s ground and Central Polytechnic Indian Pistols ground.

Bangalore was the third and final stop of the first phase of the roadshow for the Sixer team. Sixer team has met students, cricket fans and players at NMKR women’s college, Bangalore University, cricket players at Chinna Swamy stadium.

Sixer team had a chance to share how the firm is promoting women’s cricket on its website by highlighting profiles of women cricket players and fans regularly to the players of NMKR women’s college.

We are going to visit Westerern India (Ahmedabad, Pune and Mumbai) during the second phase followed by North India (Chandigarh and Delhi)”. Sixer will announce the winners in Hyderabad on April 24, 2007.

What is 'Sixer'?

Sixer is the world’s biggest social networking site for cricket fans with operations in Silicon Valley, California and Hyderabad, India. Sixer is backed by LINUS Capital, a California based investment group. Since it’s launch five months ago in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Sixer is enjoying fastest growth of any cricket related site with traffic and membership growing at 36% month-to-month basis. In last few months, thousands of news stories, pictures and videos were submitted to our site.

Sixer is unique in more than one way. The entire content on the site is generated by the members of the site. A visitor can submit videos, pictures and news to be shared by other members. Sixer is the only cricket related website that allows cricket fans to connect with other cricket fans in their gully or anywhere on the planet. Sixer has members from India and 28 other countries throughout the world. India is the top most country from where we see the highest traffic, closely followed by U.S., Australia, UAE and Canada.

One out of three members is inviting his/her friends to check out the site or share videos and pictures. This is pretty high for a site that is only five months old and goes to show that cricket fans love the interactivity provided by Sixer site.