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Speed with a spine
Match report inside 40 minutes of the final whistle. Never before the second source lands.
The Newsroom · Since 2019
We watch every ball so your group chat doesn't have to
SportzCrazy is a sports newsroom built in New Delhi for people who argue about the game at 2 AM. Eleven full-time journalists, a live-data desk that never closes, and a fan community 340,000 strong.
What SportzCrazy Is
We are an independent sports news desk covering cricket, football, Formula 1, tennis, kabaddi, basketball and esports — India first, globally aware. Every day we publish match reports, tactical analysis, live scoreboards, three podcasts and a forum where 340,000 fans do the arguing for us.
The pitch is simple. Indian sports coverage spent a decade split between wire copy nobody edited and hot takes nobody checked. We wanted a third thing: reporting fast enough to matter during the session, opinionated enough to be worth reading afterwards, and sourced well enough that we can defend every line of it.
So the newsroom runs on three rules. Be at the ground when it matters. Show the numbers you used. Print the correction bigger than the mistake.
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Show the working
Every stat carries its provider, sample size and date range. No orphan numbers.
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Women's sport, same desk
WPL and India Women get the identical live centre, ratings and ranking treatment.
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The crowd is staff
Forum threads set our story list twice a week. Readers have caught scoreboard errors before our own subs did.
The Newsroom Story
Est. 2019
Origin
It started as a live-blog nobody asked for
In September 2019, three of us live-blogged a Ranji Trophy quarter-final from a Rajkot press box because no outlet had sent anyone. Four thousand people read it. By the World Cup semi-final the following summer the same blog carried 190,000 readers in a single afternoon and the servers fell over twice.
Catalyst Web Trendz backed the desk in 2020, we hired our first two full-time reporters in 2021, and the live-data team came in 2022 — the year we stopped buying scoreboards and started verifying our own. Podcasts followed in 2023, the forum in 2024, and the video desk last year.
2019 — 2020
One press box, one laptop, one live blog
Domestic cricket coverage nobody else was doing. First 100,000-reader day arrives in July 2020.
2021 — 2022
Football, F1 and a data desk of our own
ISL accreditation in 2021. In 2022 we build the dual-feed scoreboard that still runs the match centre today.
2023 — 2024
The Third Umpire, then the forum
Three podcasts launch. The community boards open in March 2024 and cross 100,000 members in eleven weeks.
2025 — 2026
Video desk, syndication, 4.2 million a month
Daily video, two syndication partners, and a standards editor hired specifically to say no to us.
Editorial Standards & Corrections
Report an errorOur standards editor, Anirudh Bose, reports to the Editor-in-Chief and to nobody in commercial. These rules apply to every story, live blog, podcast script and social post we publish.
Sourcing
Two sources, or it waits
Transfers, selections, injuries and contract stories need two independent sources with direct knowledge before they run. A single agent, a single club official or a single screenshot is never enough. If we have one source and believe them, we say so in the copy — "SportzCrazy understands" means one source; "SportzCrazy has learned" means two or more, and both phrases are defined in our style guide.
Anonymity
Anonymous only when the risk is real
We grant anonymity when a named quote would cost someone their job, their place or their safety — not to make a weak story sound stronger. Every anonymous source is known by name to the section editor and logged in the newsroom register. We tell readers what side the source is on: "a person close to the franchise" is not the same as "a board official", and we never blur the two.
Verification
Nothing lifted, everything checked
Viral clips are traced to the original upload before we embed or describe them. Quotes are taken from our own recordings or from a full transcript, never from a rival's paraphrase. Statistics carry the provider, the sample and the date range. Fantasy and betting-adjacent content is written by people who hold no position in the market and no stake in any team.
Corrections
We correct in public, within one working day
Factual errors are fixed at the top of the article in a dated correction note, not silently edited away. Scoreboard and live-data errors are corrected the moment they are confirmed and flagged in the match centre. Every correction carries the date, what was wrong, what is right, and who signed it off. Nothing is deleted to hide an error — if a story cannot stand up, it is retracted with a standing explanation at the same URL.
Independence
Advertising never touches the story list
Sponsored content is labelled "Paid Partnership" in the same red flag we use for breaking news, and it is written by the branded-content team, never by the reporters covering that beat. No advertiser, league or franchise gets copy approval, an embargo favour or a headline change. Journalists declare gifts above ₹2,000, accept no team-funded travel for match coverage, and disclose any family connection to a club or federation.
Right of reply
Nobody reads about themselves first on the internet
Any person or organisation facing a critical claim gets a reasonable, documented window to respond before publication — a minimum of 24 hours for investigations. If they decline, we say they declined. Complaints go to the standards editor at info@catalystwebtrendz.com and receive a first response inside two working days, Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM IST.
How We Cover Live Scores
Open match centreThe live desk is the part of SportzCrazy readers touch most and think about least. Here is exactly how a wicket gets from the middle to your screen.
Step 01 · Sourcing
Two independent feeds, always
Every fixture is wired to a primary licensed data feed and a secondary independent feed. For India internationals, the IPL, the ISL and the Pro Kabaddi League we add a third input: our own reporter scoring in the press box. Where the two machines disagree, the human breaks the tie and the discrepancy is logged.
Step 02 · Latency
Two seconds, and we publish the number
Cricket and football scoreboards refresh on a two-second cycle; kabaddi and basketball on three. Median end-to-end delay from the on-ground scorer to a rendered browser was 1.8s across the last quarter, and the ninety-fifth percentile was 4.1s. We publish those figures monthly rather than claiming to be "real time".
Step 03 · Accuracy
Provisional until the official sheet lands
Anything unreviewed — a DRS call in progress, a VAR check, an unconfirmed raid point — is marked provisional in the match centre rather than silently shown as final. Final scorecards are reconciled against the governing body's official sheet within 30 minutes of the result, and any difference is corrected with a note.
Step 04 · Failover
When the feed dies, we say so
If both feeds drop, the scoreboard freezes with a visible stale-data warning and the desk switches to manual updates from the reporter at the ground. We would rather show a two-minute-old score labelled honestly than a fresh one we cannot stand behind. Uptime across the last twelve months: 99.94%.
The Masthead
Join the deskEleven full-time journalists and analysts. If you have read a byline on SportzCrazy, it belongs to one of these people — and every one of them answers reader mail.
Devika Raghunath
Editor-in-Chief · Delhi
Fourteen years across print and broadcast, six of them covering Indian cricket administration. Runs the 8:00 AM story conference and signs off every investigation.
14Years
1.2KStories
3Awards
Anirudh Bose
Managing Editor, Standards · Delhi
Owns the style guide, the sourcing register and the corrections log. Spent nine years as a night editor before deciding accuracy was more interesting than speed.
9Years
31Corrections
2dReply SLA
Rukmini Iyer
Senior Cricket Correspondent · Mumbai
Follows the Indian Test side home and away and broke the 2026 captaincy story eleven days early. Co-hosts The Third Umpire. Covers the WPL start to finish.
7Years
184Tests
96Episodes
Harsha Kelkar
Cricket Analyst · Pune
Former first-class seamer turned numbers man. Builds our workload models and writes the Friday analysis column that ruins a lot of selectors' weekends.
5Years
340Columns
12Models
Arjun Sequeira
Football Correspondent · Bengaluru
ISL, I-League and the national team. Writes the tactics column, hosts Offside Rule, and has watched more Second Division football than is medically advisable.
6Years
410Matches
88Episodes
Nikhil Rana
Formula 1 Writer · London
Travels 18 of the 24 rounds and reads technical directives for fun. Hosts Pit Wall Radio and explains aero regulations without a single diagram nobody understands.
4Years
72Races
64Episodes
Farah Qureshi
Tennis Writer · Chennai
Covers the ATP and WTA tours plus every Indian on the challenger circuit. Our long-form interviewer of choice when a subject would rather not talk.
5Years
28Slams
140Features
Sandeep Kohli
Kabaddi Correspondent · Hyderabad
The only full-time kabaddi writer at a national English outlet. Built our raid-and-tackle database from scratch and maintains the weekly PKL power rankings.
6Years
520Matches
9Seasons
Ishaan Bedi
Esports Writer · Hyderabad
BGMI, Valorant and the business of Indian esports. Reported the prize-money disclosures that three organisations spent a month denying.
3Years
64Events
2Scoops
Tanvi Kulkarni
Head of Live Data · Bengaluru
Runs the dual-feed scoreboard, the failover rules and the monthly latency report. If a number on this site is wrong, she finds out before you tell us — usually.
4Years
18.6KMatches
99.9Uptime %
Meher Sadhwani
Head of Audio & Video · Mumbai
Produces all three podcasts and the daily video desk. Cut 640 episodes and still argues that the best sports storytelling is a microphone and a long silence.
5Years
640Episodes
3Shows
Rehan Fernandes
Community Editor · Goa
Moderates 340,000 forum members without ever posting a hot take himself. Turns the best reader threads into commissioned features every Thursday.
3Years
340KMembers
72Commissions
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Awards & Recognition
2026
Sports Digital Publisher of the Year
Indian Digital Media Awards — for the dual-feed match centre and the published latency reporting.
2025
Best Sports Podcast (English)
The Third Umpire, Asia Audio Honours, for the six-part series on domestic cricket pay structures.
2025
Sports Investigation of the Year — Shortlist
Ishaan Bedi's esports prize-money reporting, shortlisted at the National Press Guild Awards.
2024
Excellence in Women's Sports Coverage
South Asia Sports Media Forum, for equal-depth WPL and India Women match-centre coverage.
Partners & Syndication
Licensing enquiries
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ArcLight Sports
Kolkata Chronicle
Tiffin Media
What Readers Say
"The correction note on the Ranji scorecard was up before I finished typing the email. I have never seen an Indian sports site do that."
"Harsha's workload column changed how our whole fantasy league drafts bowlers. It is the only analysis I read twice."
"I follow the PKL for a living and SportzCrazy is the only outlet whose raid numbers I do not have to re-check myself."
"Living in Toronto, the 7:30 AM Daily Siren is my whole evening catch-up. Five minutes, nothing missed, no clickbait."
Hold us to it.
Tip, complaint, correction or a job application — the SportzCrazy desk answers every one, Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM IST. Catalyst Web Trendz Pvt. Ltd., D 29, 2nd Floor, Greater Kailash Enclave 2, New Delhi – 110048.