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With the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, Alexa is equally excited to give users the latest updates about the teams, matches and everything else you need to know about this year’s cricket tournament. Amazon Echo users will now be able to easily track live cricket match scores using simple voice commands. Alexa is now armed with knowledge about the various teams, players, match schedules and trivia.
Alexa can help you keep track of live match updates. Just ask "Alexa, what's the cricket score", "Alexa, what's the current run rate of England", or "Alexa, who is batting". Users can also get answers to follow-up questions like “Alexa, who was man of the match”. Other such questions include “Alexa, how many wickets did Raina take”, and “Alexa, who holds the record for most runs in the world cups”.
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This year, you can hear Cyrus Broacha give you regular updates on World Cup with Alexa. Every week Cyrus will give you a lowdown of the action on the field with a dose of his trademark humor and insight. It doesn’t end here. Comedians, experts, and enthusiasts of the gentleman’s game will also be joining him. All you need to do is, tune in every week, to the ‘Cyrus Says’ Skill to LANSO (Left-Arm-Not-So-Orthodox) the cricket version of his podcast by saying “Alexa, open Cyrus says”.
Here are a few more ways in which you can interact with Alexa for cricket updates, #JustAskAlexa:
Get match notifications:
- "Alexa, notify me when India Pakistan match starts"
Team specific utterances:
- "Alexa, what is South Africa’s highest total in world cup?
- "Alexa, what is Australia's highest total?
- "Alexa, how many world cups has India won?”
- "Alexa, what is Bangladesh record in the world cup?”
- “Alexa, who are the wicket keepers for South Africa?”
- “Alexa, who is the coach for India?”
- “Alexa, what is Pakistan’s lowest total?”
Catch up on a match that you missed:
- "Alexa, who won the world cup match"
- "Alexa, who was man of the match"
Know about the players:
- “Alexa, what is the batting average of Joe Root?”
- “Alexa, what is the bowling average of Imran Tahir?”
- "Alexa, how many sixes has Joe Root scored in the world cup?”
- "Alexa, what is Virat Kohli’s ICC ranking?”
Additional cricket information:
- “Alexa, who has the best batting average in world cup?”
- “Alexa, who has the best bowling average in world cup?”
- “Alexa, who has the best strike rate in the world cup”
- “Alexa, which team has won the maximum times in world cup”
- “Alexa, who holds the record for most runs in the world cups”
- “Alexa, who holds the record for most wickets in world cups”
- “Alexa, which is the most successful team in world cup”