December 9, 2006

Quality of news tickers

I was watching Times Now news channel day before yesterday (Thursday). These were the contents of one particular sequence of news in the ticker at the bottom of the screen:

1. South Africa: Sourav Ganguly scores 50(83).
2. South Africa: Ganguly scores 83.
3. South Africa: Ganguly scores the highest score yet by an Indian batsman on this trip.
4. South Africa: Irfan Pathan completes 100.

How can Sourav Ganguly score 50 & 83? If Irfan scored 100, how did Sourav get the highest score on the trip?

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  1. If this information was displayed when the match was happening then it is correct. :)
    Ganguly made 50 runs in 83 balls and totally 83 runs before he got out.
    And that was the highest score on the trip before Pathan made 100.

    Comment by Ramki — December 9, 2006 @ 9:41:42 AM

  2. No, this was after the match ended for the day. I know all this information was correct at some point of time. But it should be updated right?

    Comment by rkarthik — December 9, 2006 @ 10:46:50 AM

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