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***Official*** India in England

Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
Not being able to follow much of this test on TV, I get my info from crickinfo. However, last friday, I did get to see some English wickets fall, in the evening. I was quite shocked by Cook's first Innings dismissal. Sipping at my beer, watching the TV-screen, I immediately could see that ball might have been too high. And it was! Yet Cook was given LBW by Taufel (of Ganguly's bowling).

So, I check the latest score yesterday. Nowhere a single comment about Cook's badluck. Cricinfo's life comment didn't even say it was a poor decision. Yet, there were tons of words used to question the wickets of Ganguly and Tendulkar. What is that? For goodness sake, G&T had doen their damage, whereas Cook was anchoring a poor England innings. Nobody likes bad decisions, but they are part of cricket and rule themselves even! Yet cricinfo continues to suggest that India was done wrong. If you want to keeping whining about bad decisions, then at least have the decency to do so unbiased.

Don't get me wrong, I couldn't give a rat's arse about the outcome of this test. I just wonder....., there's an anti-English bias at cricinfo, right?
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Stapel said:
Not being able to follow much of this test on TV, I get my info from crickinfo. However, last friday, I did get to see some English wickets fall, in the evening. I was quite shocked by Cook's first Innings dismissal. Sipping at my beer, watching the TV-screen, I immediately could see that ball might have been too high. And it was! Yet Cook was given LBW by Taufel (of Ganguly's bowling).

So, I check the latest score yesterday. Nowhere a single comment about Cook's badluck. Cricinfo's life comment didn't even say it was a poor decision. Yet, there were tons of words used to question the wickets of Ganguly and Tendulkar. What is that? For goodness sake, G&T had doen their damage, whereas Cook was anchoring a poor England innings. Nobody likes bad decisions, but they are part of cricket and rule themselves even! Yet cricinfo continues to suggest that India was done wrong. If you want to keeping whining about bad decisions, then at least have the decency to do so unbiased.

Don't get me wrong, I couldn't give a rat's arse about the outcome of this test. I just wonder....., there's an anti-English bias at cricinfo, right?
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not really.... more of a pro-Indian bias though, given that it is where most ppl access that site. Cricinfo is only marginally better than some of the **** Indian media outlets.... They play on the emotions of the Indian fans and project larger than life (and obviously false) images of all their players... Just that they don't go down to the ridiculous levels that the other Indian media do....
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
honestbharani said:
not really.... more of a pro-Indian bias though, given that it is where most ppl access that site. Cricinfo is only marginally better than some of the **** Indian media outlets.... They play on the emotions of the Indian fans and project larger than life (and obviously false) images of all their players... Just that they don't go down to the ridiculous levels that the other Indian media do....
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Ah, it might indeed be more of a pro-Indian than an anti-English bias.
 
T

Tom Halsey

International Coach
Stapel said:
Not being able to follow much of this test on TV, I get my info from crickinfo. However, last friday, I did get to see some English wickets fall, in the evening. I was quite shocked by Cook's first Innings dismissal. Sipping at my beer, watching the TV-screen, I immediately could see that ball might have been too high. And it was! Yet Cook was given LBW by Taufel (of Ganguly's bowling).

So, I check the latest score yesterday. Nowhere a single comment about Cook's badluck. Cricinfo's life comment didn't even say it was a poor decision. Yet, there were tons of words used to question the wickets of Ganguly and Tendulkar. What is that? For goodness sake, G&T had doen their damage, whereas Cook was anchoring a poor England innings. Nobody likes bad decisions, but they are part of cricket and rule themselves even! Yet cricinfo continues to suggest that India was done wrong. If you want to keeping whining about bad decisions, then at least have the decency to do so unbiased.

Don't get me wrong, I couldn't give a rat's arse about the outcome of this test. I just wonder....., there's an anti-English bias at cricinfo, right?
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Tbf a number of people commented that Cook got a shocker here, including myself.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
FFS Strauss

His once excellent conversion rate is slowly slipping, much like his average tbh
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
it already seems to be obvious that batsmen have to make mistakes to get out in this pitch. WE better pray if we want to win this match.
 
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