Tag: S Rajesh

Week 48 – January 25th – Week 4 of lockdown 3 restrictions Jan 27th 08:50

My continuing communication with Cricinfo. You can but try and help.

My chase –

Hello Rajesh

Hope all is well and that you enjoyed the India test series win against Australia, just shows what is possible if you believe in yourselves. Great achievement.

Just following up as I had no response to the email below.

I’ve been reviewing all the tests and one day international played this year and unfortunately, I’m still finding mistakes in the matches, my offer is still there for you?

Look forward to hearing back from you.

Regards

Michael

Their response. –

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your offer. We aren’t in a position to take up your offer at the moment, But I have passed this mail on to our data team. We are still looking to sort some bugs in our cards, which is why there are errors in partnership contributions in some cases. The names issue was a bug as well, which I think has been sorted now.

Regards

Rajesh

Final follow up for the time being –

Hello Rajesh.

Thank you for your response and no problem.  I’ll just carry on with my two projects.

Yes the initial are showing again on the scorecards, for the catches and bowlers.

Just for the record, including the international matches this year, I’m up to 210 matches with at least one error / mistakes. 

Regards

Michael

I followed up with Cricinfo as I had not heard anything, this was the response and my reply.

Hello Michael,

The couple of errors you’ve mentioned will be corrected. Re the checking service, I’ll let you know if we need the services. Thanks for the offer though.

Regards

Rajesh

My response

Hello S Rajesh

Thank you for the email and update.

I’m now up to 165 matches with at least one error, some may trivial, but they are still mistakes, even in the finished 1st test New Zealand v West Indies I have found some. 🙁

Just to let you know a new customer service VP where I used to work, said I scared her, as she had never met anyone with such eye for detailed, but loved it that I could check her work before it went out to the team.

I’m just trying to offer a service to keep cricinfo the number 1 cricket website in the world 🙂

Regards

Michael

Quick turnaround from Cricinfo, trying to see if I can get a contract with them.

Hi Michael,

Can you send again the errors from this year? The word doc you had attached only had matches from 2003-04. I’ll see if our data team can sort the recent errors.

Regards

Rajesh

My response

Hello S Rajesh

Thank you for your response, this one we passed over earlier in the year, Jermaine Blackwood wagon wheel is still 1 run too many.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/19497/statistics/1225247/england-vs-west-indies-1st-test-west-indies-in-england-2020

Your stats team have sorted out the West Indies first innings partnerships errors that we advised you on, but on the second innings.

First wicket, Kraigg Brathwaite is showing 1(4), when it should be 1(5).

Seventh wicket John Campbell is showing 7(14), when it should be 7(15).

S Rajesh as mentioned in an earlier email and after further discussion with various people, I’m happy to offer a checking service for a trial period and hourly rate to make sure that cricinfo stays as the number 1 cricket website in the world?

Look forward to hearing back from you.

Regards

Michael

Ongoing communication with Cricinfo website and the number of errors, which I find quite incredible for the number 1 cricket website in the world.

Hi Michael,

I’ve checked with our data team – many of the errors in the partnership and wagon wheel part of match stats from before 2006 are because of bugs with our earlier scoring software, which we have moved on from. None of the numbers on that page impact our overall partnership/wagon-wheel numbers because the errors are only in rendering on that page; at the back end all the numbers have been captured correctly.

And some of those are not errors at all – when a wicket falls off the last ball of an over, only the other not-out batsman is shown in the end-of-over summary; the new batsman appears later.

Our data guys will get to this at some point, but it’s not high-priority at the moment given some of the other projects they are currently on.

Regards

S Rajesh

Senior stats editor, ESPNcricinfo

This was my response –

Hello S Rajesh.

Thank you for your response.

I sensed they were bugs as they we’re happening to often.

Regarding the end of over, not over 1 and the player is out of the last ball. It’s showing the wrong player on the end of the over graphic.

I have to say. I class cricinfo as the number one cricket site in the world and it’s quite staggering the number of errors that are on the site.

For the record we have found errors in this year’s matches, which we have reported and are still showing.

Regards

Michael.

Since lockdown started, I have been doing a cricket project, just to keep my mind alert, I was amazed over doing this, the number of errors / mistakes on the Cricinfo website. This was an email I sent to their lead statistics administrator, waiting on feedback.

Hello S Rajesh

Lovely to hear from you. As Ken said in his last email. I’m taking this back over again due to his work commitments.

Well I did raise a few via the feedback, when I started my 2000 stats project and have no record of them apart from some URL links of the matches.

I do have a word document of later one’s, but I’ve been discussing with various people and considering the amount of working you’ve been doing with Ken, they said why don’t you ask if you could become a contractor working for cricinfo.

So I’m asking that S Rajesh?

I’ll attach a part of the word document, so you can see what I have found once I started recording them.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Regards

Michael