Purpose and mission statement

Cricinfo is the most widely read site on all things related to Cricket and it is extremely biased against Asian countries in general and India in particular. To those not familiar with the modern Cricket world, it may help to know that India generates the highest amount for revenue in the sport of cricket. Further, most Indians are crazy about cricket and that any media outlet reporting on cricket stands to gain huge amounts of advertising revenue from the Indian fan. Normally, one would expect this to generate a bias towards Indian cricket and favor Indian cricketers. But in the peculiarly Indian mentality of the post-colonial era, there is a tendency among Indians to demean themselves.

Cricinfo (based in England and India) while enjoying the benefits of millions of Indian eyeballs (most advertisements on the site are targeted to Indians), is a major practitioner of the craft of demeaning Indian cricket.

Cricinfo was until recently owned by Wisden (a UK based corporation) and recently acquired by ESPN but most of the advertisers on that site are Indian companies. If one observed the history of Cricinfo though, it was started by a few Indians as a IRC channel to report live scores of cricket matches around the world. Wisden saw an opportunity and acquired the company. The major asset that cricinfo has are the historical records of most of the cricket matches played in the past century. They use this to great advantage to lambaste Indian cricket and Indian cricketers.


The fact that Cricinfo is biased is not a controversial issue and is a forgone conclusion - I being one of several people who have made this observation in the past, backing it with up mountains of evidence. Further, any feedback to the authors of the site (through postings on their feedback page) is usually greeted with hostility and dismissal.

This blog is an attempt to increase awareness of this bias and point out the hypocrisy of the writers and commentators on Cricinfo's web-site.