Google trends from yesterday, first day of the IPL. People looking to know what's happening in the first game of the long awaited IPL

Obviously, IPL is the top searched term...followed by "Cricbuzz", "IPL Score". Even "Hotstar" is searched more than "Cricinfo"

This could be as it is the first day of the new season and people were trying to figure out how to watch the game. Unlikely, but can be considered a possibility

So how did a website, that started in the 90s, had access to cricketers and more get to this stage where it is hardly seen as the best place to get match updates from. After all, they pioneered live commentary on the internet

Cricbuzz is the quickest to refresh scores and has put in plenty of effort to make sure that their platform is the quickest and focuses on providing access to relevant content quickly to cricket lovers

Somewhere, Cricinfo thought of themselves as the moral compass for the sport of cricket and their focus moved away from providing access to what cricket fans look for to moralizing about the game

Cricinfo writers focused more on Dhoni's "balidaan" gloves, SRT's lack of commentary on matters outside the sport. Cricinfo writers thought they were bigger than the players.

At the end of the day, the things a cricket website should get right are pretty simple, timely refresh of scores, content that most fans look for should be easily available.

Your sense of "fairness" may want you to give a game between "Papua New Guinea" and "Palau" the same prominence as a match between India and Australia. But if I don't find the India-Australia game when I log on, I move to another site.

You might think that making sure scores are not updated faster than competitors does not matter because we are "legacy" but there will be someone who will give the cricket fan what he or she wants, and will become the source for cricket.

To end with, sporting websites exist because of the sport. They are not the sport. Or as Kavi Dushyant Kumarji said in his poem "तुम्हारे पाँव के नीचे कोई ज़मीन नहीं" -

"तुझे क़सम है ख़ुदी को बहुत हलाक न कर
तू इस मशीन का पुर्ज़ा है तू मशीन नहीं". End of rant!

Thanks to @lalpra for sharing this, these numbers couldn't make things clearer. Very recent data for both cricinfo and cricbuzz.