Does CricInfo have ties with City Club?

[Tigers_eye]

Interesting, I am sure some of the BC members have noticed also, all the Bangladesh Premier Division Cricket League scorecards are for only City Club games.
Premier Division Cricket League. 2005-06

Why is it? Is it because of Taibu (The only foreign Test cricketer playing for that club)?

Or is it because City Club provides the match data to Cricinfo so that the Club's fan can access?

Can anyone shed some light on it please?

Anyways, I wish we could have all the scores. thanks CricInfo for what it has. Something is better than nothing.

Edited on, January 4, 2006, 9:00 PM GMT, by Cats_eye.

[CricTiger]

Originally posted by Cats_eye
Interesting, I am sure some of the BC members have noticed also, all the Bangladesh Premier Division Cricket League scorecards are for only City Club games.
Premier Division Cricket League. 2005-06

Why is it? Is it because of Taibu (The only foreign Test cricketer playing for that club)?

Or is it because City Club provides the match data to Cricinfo so that the Club's fan can access?

Can anyone shed some light on it please?

Anyways, I wish we could have all the scores. thanks CricInfo for what it has. Something is better than nothing.

Edited on, December 28, 2005, 3:51 PM GMT, by Cats_eye.

Very good observation.There must be a reason for this which we do not know yet.I would rather hear from Martin Williams if possible about this before drawing any conclusion.

[sadi]

not sure why.....they can easily get it from tigercricket.com

[Carte Blanche]

Excellent observation CE. I think it is the Taibu factor. Taibu has earnt a lot of attention with his move to Dhaka to play in the premier league. I won't be surprised if CI's interest in CC is only a product of their interest in Taibu

[billah]

I think it's Taibu also. How Taibu does is very important for the essential Zimbabwe bashers. After all they are running a full-scale propaganda sceme against Zimbabwe.

It must be disappointing to see Taibu flop so badly.

[Tigers_eye]

Mr. Martin Williams,
I know you are back at work, could you please clearify this observation.
Thanks.

Edited on, January 4, 2006, 4:40 PM GMT, by Cats_eye.

[Hatebreed]

It's art of thee devil I tell ya! :embaressed:

[rudro]

Originally posted by Cats_eye
Mr. Martin Williams,
I know you are back at work, could you please clearify this observation.
Thanks.

Seen Martin's post on other threads. Martin, would you give us an idea how and when you get scores from our domestic leagues?

[MartinW]

Apologies for the delay but I have been tied up of late.

We do carry scorecards from all domestic matches as soon as we can get verified version of them. We rely on local resources to provide these - they source and validate the cards and then fax them to us. We then enter them into the database. We have done this for a number of seasons, so there is no question of carrying selected scorecards.

http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/BDESH_LOCAL/

If some are missing which should be there, please let me know,.

[Tigers_eye]

Thank you very much Mr. Williamson for your clearification.

Originally posted by MartinW
If some are missing which should be there, please let me know,.

Matches between any of the following teams are missing:

Abahani Limited
Mohammadan SC
Bangladesh Biman
Old DOHS Club
Victoria SC
Brothers Union
Indira Road Club
Orient SC
Agrani Bank
Kala Bagan Krira Chackra
Sonargaon Cricketers

[imran78]

Originally posted by MartinW
If some are missing which should be there, please let me know,.

The Dec 30th match between City Club and Orient Sporting Club. Shahriar Nafees scored 150+ in that match. Also, Taibu, Rajin Saleh and Tamim Iqbal had half centuries.

I have seen match reports for that game but couldn't find any scorecard anywhere. If you can find that scorecard that will be great.

[rudro]

Hi Martin,
Below are the scorecards that are posted on CRICINFO. Notice that although all the teams played at least 9 games in the league, the 9 scorecards posted on the website are for games between city club and another team.
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Kolabagan Krira Chakra v City Club at Dhaka (FCS), 12 Dec 2005
Brothers Union v City Club at Dhaka (Dhanmondi), 15 Dec 2005
Agrani Bank Cricket Club v City Club at Bogra, 18 Dec 2005
City Club v Abahani Limited at Dhaka, 21 Dec 2005
City Club v Victoria Sporting Club at Dhaka, 24 Dec 2005
Sonargaon Cricketers v City Club at Dhaka, 27 Dec 2005
Mohammedan Sporting Club v City Club at Bogra, 5 Jan 2006
Biman Bangladesh v City Club at Fatullah, 8 Jan 2006
CITY-CLUB_INDIRA_PDCL_02JAN2006
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[MartinW]

Thanks. I have sent this list to the guy who co-ordinates our scorecards and asked him to investigate and report back.