Player profile: {{{name}}} from ESPNcricinfo

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Template:Cricinfo displays an external link to an ESPN Cricinfo web page for a cricket player.

Usage

Using "id" parameter

• {{Cricinfo|id=ID}}
• {{Cricinfo|id=ID|name=NAME}}

Using "ref" parameter

• {{Cricinfo|ref=REF}}
• {{Cricinfo|ref=REF|name=NAME}}

TemplateData

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Cricinfo

<templatedata>{ "description": "This template displays an external link to an ESPN Cricinfo web page for a cricket player.", "params": {

 "id": {
   "label": "ID",
   "description": "ID number in URL of a player's ESPN Cricinfo web page. Example: 39343 is the ID portion of http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/39343.html",
   "type": "number",
   "default": "",
   "required": true
 },
 "ref": {
   "label": "REF",
   "description": "Portion of URL specific to a player's ESPN Cricinfo web page (everything between http://www.espncricinfo.com/ and .html). Not required if ID is specified. Examples: ci/content/player/39343 OR pakistan/content/player/39343",
   "type": "string",
   "default": "",
   "required": false
 },
 "name": {
   "label": "NAME",
   "description": "Name of cricket player. If not given it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation such as (cricketer).",
   "type": "string",
   "default": "Cricinfo",
   "required": false
 }

}}</templatedata>

Examples

Using "id" parameter

Usage:

• {{Cricinfo |id= 39343 |name= Abdul Aziz }}

Output:

• Player profile: Abdul Aziz from ESPNcricinfo

URL:

• http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/39343.html

Using "ref" parameter

Usage:

• {{Cricinfo |ref= pakistan/content/player/39343 |name= Abdul Aziz }}

Output:

• Player profile: Abdul Aziz from ESPNcricinfo

URL:

• http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/39343.html

See also

• {{Cricketarchive}}, which uses a similar format
• {{Yahoo! Cricket}}, which uses a similar format