Title: Re-Design
After reading your reasons to re-design Cricinfo and asking for feedback I have decided to send you my views. Well I found the "supposively inferior" format a lot more easy to use than the horrid new "modern" design. I'm sure I'm not the only person writing in asking 1st of all why you decided to re-design a format that I feel was one of the better ones on any cricket site on the web, and 2ndly to ask where all the information I come onto your site to read, has gone. Not only has the News section had to take a reduction but we also now have to put up with what looks like a hastily and rather badly chosen mixture of the Wisden and Cricinfo colours, with a heavy bias on the Wisden side. I think we all know Wisden and Cricinfo have combined, and I'm not the only one annoyed about Wisden joining with "The Cricketer" to form a magazine which attempts to take the place of the 2 main Cricket magazines available in England, getting rid of most of the sections which made "The Cricketer" what it was and ending up with a magazine inferior in both content and design to the, now defunct, magazine it now most closely resebles, WCM. I'm afraid from what I've seen so far on Cricinfo, the "Wisden Cricketer" syndrome is spreading. Now I'm not asking to go back to the original design, things need to move forwards, but could you please attempt to not make the same mistake as the "Wisden Cricketer".
Yours, wishing the whole Wisden incident had never happened,
Eric Heath
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