But that does not mean they do not occasionally disappoint me. Most cricket-related websites give lip-service to match reports and my common grouse is that they provide no insight into the happenings of the game. If I could have written the same report without watching a single minute of the match just based on the scorecard, then the scribe was not reporting but just regurgitating.
Imagine my disappointment this morning when I looked up CricInfo's "reports" on the Ranji Trophy matches currently being played. Please read through it and tell me one case where something beyond the scorecard is provided. *sigh*
Here's a sample of the "report":
Uttar Pradesh resumed the third day needing 183 to get with eight wickets in hand and lost five of them en route to a win that took them to the quarter-finals of the Ranji Trophy's Super League. Mohammad Kaif, batting at No. 3, added 40 runs to his overnight score even as Shivakant Shukla added just one to his, dismissed in the first over of the day, but really aiding UP's charge to victory was Parvinder Singh. Parvinder atoned for a first-innings duck with 62 from 95 balls, studded with ten boundaries, and added 93 with Kaif. The pair was dismissed in relative succession - within five overs and ten runs of each other - but handy cameos from Bhuvneshwar Kumar (29) and Piyush Chawla (21) helped UP chase their target of 236 with three wickets remaining. UP are now second in their group's points table with 18, second to Karnataka's 23. Bengal, after this defeat, sit at fifth place with eight points.
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