Travis Basevi, the architect of StatsGuru and one of Cricinfo's pioneers, passes away
He was also instrumental in compiling the site's database of scorecards and building the content management system that is used to this day
Travis Basevi, the architect of ESPNcricinfo's iconic StatsGuru search engine, and one of the website's most vital influences in the 1990s and early 2000s, has died at the age of 47 following a two-year battle with cancer.
Basevi was born in Geelong, Australia, in March 1975, but it was while studying in Sydney as a teenager in the early 1990s that he first encountered the nascent CricInfo, via the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) system that helped to connect its loose online community of cricket fans before the dawn of the mainstream internet.
He was also instrumental in compiling the site's database of scorecards and building the content management system that is used to this day
Travis Basevi, the architect of ESPNcricinfo's iconic StatsGuru search engine, and one of the website's most vital influences in the 1990s and early 2000s, has died at the age of 47 following a two-year battle with cancer.
Basevi was born in Geelong, Australia, in March 1975, but it was while studying in Sydney as a teenager in the early 1990s that he first encountered the nascent CricInfo, via the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) system that helped to connect its loose online community of cricket fans before the dawn of the mainstream internet.
