Seriously, ESPNCricinfo?

[Zunaid]

Thank you Razab.

[Shubho]

Racist ranting against Cricinfo is a little tiresome. Frankly, I don't get much better coverage of Bangladesh cricket anywhere else. Ball-by-ball updates of all national team games. Scorecards for all domestic games. Frequent, timely and well-written articles by Isam. And a whole slew of stats about players (past and present), matches, stadiums, etc. Not much wrong with that. Yes, there is an India bias within Cricinfo, but I think they make a more-than-decent effort with Bangladesh cricket too (except for certain individuals, e.g. S. Rajesh).

[Zeeshan]

Seriously BC?

[Zunaid]

Originally Posted by Zeeshan
Seriously BC?

Seriously, Zeeshan?

As a BC staff member, isn't it one of your responsibilities to update the countdown script?

[RazabQ]

LoL Zee

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by Zunaid
Seriously, Zeeshan?

As a BC staff member, isn't it one of your responsibilities to update the countdown script?

touché

i tried to update but widget ta khuje pachina

[mufi_02]

"Tendulkar mania grips Kolkata" and why should the rest of the world care?? I wonder if there is a difference between Cricinfo's Global and India edition.

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by RazabQ
It's called making a point Razi. Not everything is to be taken literally.

Think of it this way:

Is Cricinfo often exhibiting bias towards smaller cricketing nations such as Bangladesh?
Yes. (Unless you are Ireland or Afghanistan or Papua New Guinea, in which case there will be romantic paeans sung).

Does a majority of the CI staff happen to be of Indian ethnicity?
Yes.

However neither facts allows one to make an ad hominem statement about an entire country!

Originally Posted by Shubho
Racist ranting against Cricinfo is a little tiresome. Frankly, I don't get much better coverage of Bangladesh cricket anywhere else. Ball-by-ball updates of all national team games. Scorecards for all domestic games. Frequent, timely and well-written articles by Isam. And a whole slew of stats about players (past and present), matches, stadiums, etc. Not much wrong with that. Yes, there is an India bias within Cricinfo, but I think they make a more-than-decent effort with Bangladesh cricket too (except for certain individuals, e.g. S. Rajesh).

Even though cricinfo sometimes becomes crapinfo, still it is the best cricket news source for us - much better than our own www.tigercricket.com

Thanks cricinfo for your Bangladesh cricket section

[shuziburo]

Cricinfo was developed by a few Indians, I believe. It was bought first by Wisden and then by ESPN. Thus, the Indian bias is not surprising. However, a few of their writers really have it against us. Otherwise, I don't mind it that much.

[shuziburo]

Cric to crap, KP?

[Roni_uk]

Cricinfo guys must come to this forum....

Match winning day - 'NZ is closing in...'
Few hours later - 'BD chase down 309' with Rohit Sharma's picture on the front
Few more hours later - 'BD chase down...' Goes down to other news, RS still on the front
24 hrs later -'BD chase down...' Back on the main news. With Nasir and Gazi's picture
36 hrs later - no change
48 hrs late - the news moves down to other news but the pic remains which is very surprising

[RazabQ]

They have better things to do

[meazz1]

They must have seen our thread, as of 11/04 8:10 pm EST, they have this in their home page!

[Zunaid]

Originally Posted by shuziburo
Cricinfo was developed by a few Indians, I believe. It was bought first by Wisden and then by ESPN. Thus, the Indian bias is not surprising. However, a few of their writers really have it against us. Otherwise, I don't mind it that much.

No it wasn't. Don't you remember the usenet days of rec.sport.cricket? Cricinfo grew from a multinational group of grad students and researchers/professionals. R.s.c was their hang out place and the founders started IRC commentary and collating all the available scorecards. Simon King - a researcher or post doc at U MInnesota and Badri Sheshadri (another grad student? In the US) started it. Statsguru was started by another rsc denizen - Travis.

All this was around 89-93.

[al-Sagar]

cricinfo na thakle kee hoito ????? amra, cricket fan-ra sob kee DOOMED hye jaitam ???

[Sohel]

They may have to drop the cavalier indifference when we win and the bitchfully obvious malice once we start winning games as the norm. Those days are coming InshAllah, maybe not "just around the corner", but definitely before the next 12 years,

[Roni_uk]

Originally Posted by RazabQ
They have better things to do

I doubt it

[SMHasan]

Nice observation. I have set a status in facebook with that

Cricinfo supports the elite after all.

[SMHasan]

I was going through the NZ forum and found this: 'Cricinfo headline is a bit optimistic:

"New Zealand close in despite steady Nasir". '

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cric...013-a-148.html

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by SMHasan
I was going through the NZ forum and found this: 'Cricinfo headline is a bit optimistic:

"New Zealand close in despite steady Nasir". '

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cric...013-a-148.html

Thanks for sharing the link Hasan bhai. A wonderful forum indeed.

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by shuziburo
Cric to crap, KP?

Not me! It's them!! They transform themselves from cric to crap some times you know!!!

[akabir77]

I saw tweet from Indian commentator bhogley saying :Nz can't be that bad? i gave him my piece of mind in 128 char...