the big bambino
International Captain
Yeah getting the full scorecard is a longwinded journey through google.
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wtf just happened to cricinfo
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Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
Agreed but this is how most people on the internet browse sites I guess and they are catering to the lower common denominator
Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
Ok based on my experience of how organisations implement 'major changes', I would expect this to be just one of the several glitches the site is going to have over the next couple of weeks but if it's permanent and the old scorecards are indeed gone, you are dead to me Cricinfo, you hear that? there's a dead person on the other site of the internet
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah, and I think it's largely my generation's fault. No one seems to like to read anything substantive anymore.
Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
I hate people so much
Shri
Mr. Glass
Speak for yourself.
Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
^ He was referring to his generation tbh..you're safe by 30 years
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah, I'm 19. At least the people around my university would prefer this sort of arrangement and your shorter articles etc on a mobile device, and this change is designed for that sort of person.
I like this. Will make it so much easier to convince people that the 2003 World Cup final never happened.
ankitj
Hall of Fame Member
Really? Just compare the player profile write-ups of the 2 sites. Cricbuzz is very amateurish. So are the few cricket articles I read on the site. Only thing cricbuzz does better is cricket score notifications on mobile. Else I would never open their site or app.
Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
Their app is better..that's all I can say in their defence
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Nah, it's still there. Possibly the greatest ODI ever, and certainly the best cup final.I like this. Will make it so much easier to convince people that the 2003 World Cup final never happened.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It turns out that by going to a pre-03 season you can use the bar at the top with the seasons listed to find older seasons. These are in the same drop-down menu format.
It makes me wonder if they are going to remove, or at least make inaccessible the old archives under static.espncricinfo/db/ARCHIVE/ as all pre 2003 seasons were. If so that's devastating as they contained detailed match reports from the nineties as well as all the scorecards that were in the basic html format such as most domestic matches and the rest-of-the-world series, all of which don't appear in the drop-down menus.
Even if they don't they're inaccessible unless they're changed to the current format and the reports possibly will remain so (although quite a few were already dead links).
I hope all these problems are temporary but someone has really made a hash of things here. I fear that the match reports are gone for good though.
It makes me wonder if they are going to remove, or at least make inaccessible the old archives under static.espncricinfo/db/ARCHIVE/ as all pre 2003 seasons were. If so that's devastating as they contained detailed match reports from the nineties as well as all the scorecards that were in the basic html format such as most domestic matches and the rest-of-the-world series, all of which don't appear in the drop-down menus.
Even if they don't they're inaccessible unless they're changed to the current format and the reports possibly will remain so (although quite a few were already dead links).
I hope all these problems are temporary but someone has really made a hash of things here. I fear that the match reports are gone for good though.
weeman27bob
International Regular
I wonder if part of the problem is Cricinfo seeing itself as a news + ball-by-ball site, with some stats, as opposed to the way that I (and I suspect a lot of you) use it as a stats + ball-by-ball site, with some news.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
The problem there is that their journalism standards have declined catastrophically over the past few years.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Yeah, sure. Actually finding the links to these scorecards is still fairly easy. But once you do, the scorecards aren't showing the useful parts.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
And as I mentioned above it's only the scorecards where you've got links to players profiles etc that are visible. The ones done in Plain text aren't. Whole domestic seasons are missing, and all the reports are inaccessible.
Edit: By reports I mean a lot of nineties/early 00's coverage listed in the old archives like those from the Electronic Telegraph, and also in the match sidebar, which were much more detailed than the Wisden reports. As Kirkut mentions below the Wisden reports (or at least some) are still accessible through the Almanack Archive (which is loath to load for me).
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Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah, I think you're right about that.
Wisden Almanack | ESPN Cricinfo
Yay! We can find all the game coverage in it's archive.
But still I won't be at peace unless they fix the scorecards.