I seem to have an obsession with the footnotes/fine print stuff ..
Heres what i found at the bottom of the cricinfo page ..
Top 5 player searches
Sachin Tendulkar - Chris Gayle - Graeme Hick - Virender Sehwag - Shaun Pollock
I can understand Sachin, Gayle, Sehwag --> basically indicating a substantial bias in the demographics of cricket following.
Pollock and Hick are absolute surprises -- who cares about Graeme Hick?? Probably the brits are more online-savvy than I imagine them to be .. but still the population would be dwarfed by a single indian metro following cricket online!
Maybe cricinfo being a uk site is fudging around with results to make the english better than they acually are in the true spirit of the uk media and their sportsmen.
Im stumped on Pollock -- dont think hes done anything worthwhile for a long time now and his position even within the SA team has been relegated to one of a supporting bowler/handy batsman rather than leading all-rounder, and hes clearly not raking up enough controversy like someone like warne :-) even while he isnt playing -- any one willing to proffer a reasonable explanation is welcome to do so..
1 comment:
Amazing!! What a coincidence that I too noticed the "Top player searches" and "Most Read Articles" at the bottom of the Cricinfo page just yesterday! Or, maybe they introduced this feature just a few days ago ...
I suspect the player searches are searches for players' stats in Statsguru. Hick recently became one of the top few (third or fourth, I think) batsmen in terms of number of centuries in first-class cricket. So, I can imagine people looking up his stats after reading about that. Not sure about Pollock.
Anyway, right now, the top 5 are Tendulkar, Laxman, Akram, Hayden and Cork. So, the top 5 seems pretty volatile.
Post a Comment