Commentator's curse
How many times does it seem to happen that a commentary team talks up a batsman's abilities just in time for his wicket to fall?! The Test Match Special chaps were enthusiastically extolling the batting talents of Alastair Cook (apparently a practical certainty for 10,000 test match runs) in day three of the second test vs NZ. His immediate dismissal was depressingly inevitable - though whether the cricketing Furies needed to continue their vengeance on Andrew Strauss the very next over seems more questionable.
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I have noticed the same sequence. Batsmen should occassionaly play a crap shot to ward of the commentators evil eye. :)
I hadn't noticed it in cricket but I have noticed it a lot with snooker. Whenever the commentator says the player will win the frame at that visit they inevitably miss the next shot which is straigh forward.
Maybe we need to silence the commentators or work on a theory of reverse commentators curse.
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