Do you agree with this article?

[Arjun]

On a renegade cricket site (anyone can guess), someone has taken an initiative to lash out at CricInfo, maybe for a reason, maybe for kicks. That was translated into a front-page article, titled "Daily Dump from Cricinfo".

We've all had a few complaints about the be-home-oth of cricket on the internet, but do you agree with this article? This surely looks an all-out attack on Cricinfo!

As all of you are aware, I am sure, a historic series is being played in England by India.
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In light of this, Cricinfo decides to publish a whole article about India's 1936 tour which was total disaster. You can read the details here.

The contents of the article are not of dispute here, but the article itself. Why this article now? Why do it just after India had a comprehensive win over England?

How about writing an article on the 1971/72 series where Wadekar and his men trounced the mighty England on their own soil with BS Chandrashekar taking 6 wickets for 38 runs in the second innings of the third test to seal the test and series for India? Or how about the 2002 series where Ganguly and his boys came back after a defeat in the first test to even the series (with Sachin, Dravid and Ganguly all scoring centuries)?

If I'm not wrong, they also put up a few other not-too-dismissive articles about India's better tours to England as well, didn't they?

For example, there is some coverage given to Zaheer Khan and his superior bowling performance however more attention is paid to Sreesanth and his failings to control his emotions. Another example, the jelly bean incident is labeled a childish prank rather than a violation of Cricket rules which should have resulted in the banning of the perpetrators. If the ball had landed on those jelly beans and deviated from their normal course, at best it would have got the batsman out and at worst caused bodily harm yo a tailender ill-equipped to handle it.

More attention? Tell me, how?

One more gem-

An article about a debacle (Indian or otherwise) is not necessarily out of place but its mention to the exclusion of all the others that could have been written indicates bias.

The motivation for doing so is not unfathomable. It is to create a mindset where it does not really matter how well India does, it will not be given the same prominence as its failures. Don't get me wrong. The bias is not so overt that the veneer of impartiality will be obvious and be called just that - a veneer. It is more insidious since the veneer is protected and polished.

And what do these lines highlight? Merely a way with words?

This is not an attack on that article or the site, but rather, an honest question to genuine cricket fans (and India supporters) to discuss- is Cricinfo biased? Or is it just sub-par journalism and editing? The renegades have spoken, so let's hear from the people that matter.

 

[silentstriker]

Half the staff of cricinfo is Indian.....they cover more India matches than any other, and sometimes give commentary to tour games, something that no other team gets.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. No real need to read too much into it.

 

[silentstriker]

And the author of that piece is wrong, articles like these, showing how well India have done of late are quite common.

 

[Neil Pickup]

It's part of the global imperialist conspiracy to keep those colonials where they belong, what else?

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I have to say, I always thought cricinfo was owned by an Indian company due to the focus they have on India, rather than being run by an English company. They're always ready to highlight that pitch at Hamilton as a reason why New Zealand don't deserve equitable treatment, and as a reason why the World Cup couldn't go down under.

There's a lot that cricinfo can be criticised for, but bias against India isn't something I'd be focusing on!

 

[open365]

No i do not, it's a load of crap written from some crackpot Indian fanatic.

Cricinfo run an Indian cricket magazine aswell so i have no idea why he's got reason to complain.

 

[R_D]

Half the staff of cricinfo is Indian.....they cover more India matches than any other, and sometimes give commentary to tour games, something that no other team gets.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. No real need to read too much into it.

Of course they cover all indian tour matches because they want the hits but hard to tell if there's any biased against india because there's quite of fewindian journalistin their i think and most of them are self-lothing indians, where they love critise indian team most of the time.

 

[R_D]

It's part of the global imperialist conspiracy to keep those colonials where they belong, what else?

i shouldn't but anyway... if little britain had its way it would love to keep its colonies and terrorise them. Helping out USA at the moment, must be a reminder of good old days.

 

[Dasa]

It's part of the global imperialist conspiracy to keep those colonials where they belong, what else?

Such a ****-stirrer.

Anyway, I don't think Cricinfo is biased but sometimes their live commentators are - although they're mostly idiots rather than biased.

 

[archie mac]

Not much in it, I would enjoy reading about the history of Indian cricket in the 30s. Good on Cricinfo for not just focusing on recent series

 

[The Sean]

Not much in it, I would enjoy reading about the history of Indian cricket in the 30s. Good on Cricinfo for not just focusing on recent series

Agreed. Yet another mountain out of yet another molehill.

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

Cricinfo is patently racist.

 

[Sanz]

Next time please post the link. Completely agree with Archie Mac. Its nice to read a bit of history before every series.

 

[honestbharani]

That article was garbage. As HDS said, there is a lot to criticize cricinfo for, but this is not one of them. If anything, I think they have bit more of a pro-Indian bias than an anti-Indian one...... And some of the articles he refers to were genuinely good ones. And what is wrong with reading about 1930s cricket? It should not be written about because India lost that????? I think it would severely limit what a writer can write about, if that sort of rule has to be followed.....

 

[Jamee999]

Such a ****-stirrer.

Anyway, I don't think Cricinfo is biased but sometimes their live commentators are - although they're mostly idiots rather than biased.

Dasa falls into the sarchasm...

 

[Bouncer]

This web site that the article was published on is the biggest trash on web...u should chek that site's forums out, terrible terrible.

 

[Arjun]

This web site that the article was published on is the biggest trash on web...u should chek that site's forums out, terrible terrible.

Which is why I refrained from posting the link to that website. As I said earlier, it's a renegade cricket site, and every member there has a bone to pick with (or lobbies for) someone (or something) in Indian cricket.

 

[Bouncer]

Which is why I refrained from posting the link to that website. As I said earlier, it's a renegade cricket site, and every member there has a bone to pick with (or lobbies for) someone (or something) in Indian cricket.

Which is sad coz they are represented as biggest indian cricket forum.....what really ticks me off is the desire to gain attention by almost all users of that site, for example if a thread is there for Eng v India test match, poster will start new threads to discus things that can easily be discussed in that thread.....and the language, Mannnnn, it is disgusting...and most of the posters on that site are people from educated back grounds working in IT industry in US....so thats not ur typical Paaanwaala crowd, but waaaooo dont they act like one, Just Sad!!

 

[Dasa]

Dasa falls into the sarchasm...

How on earth would you think I didn't get the sarcasm? Of course I get it, that's why I posted what I did because I think it's immature and just another in a long line of stupid posts clearly meant to stir people up. It's a cheap shot.

 

[R_D]

How on earth would you think I didn't get the sarcasm? Of course I get it, that's why I posted what I did because I think it's immature and just another in a long line of stupid posts clearly meant to stir people up. It's a cheap shot.

yeah and i've seen that repeated in many threads before by same person.