Kanishkaa Balachandran

Cricket, cash and country

The West Indies is the only nation in Test cricket that currently finds itself unable to place its best team on the field of play

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

KP is not an IPL loudmouth

Kevin Pietersen's comments on England's lack of enthusiasm in the IPL is perhaps wrongly mistaken as "jealousy"

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Grounds for injury

Aakash Chopra, in his blog for Cricketnext , writes that certain first-class grounds in India have such pathetic facilities that a player risks a serious injury if he tries to dive on the outfield

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Cricket South Africa has conned India

The one-off Twenty20 between South Africa and India is a sell-out

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

What "cornered tigers" speech?

Zahid Fazal is one of the forgotten members of Pakistan's 1992 World Cup winning team

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

What next for India-Pakistan ties?

With India and Pakistan playing each other for the first time in nearly a year, a joint broadcast of two leading news channels from both countries had panelists discussing whether bilateral ties will resume

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Hail the boy king Tendulkar

The batting feats of WG Grace and Don Bradman were once thought to be unchallenged

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Finding Virat

Virat Kohli's coach Rajkumar Sharma remembers his young pupil as a "chubby, naughty kid", when he came to his academy

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

The myth about fast-bowler injuries

It's a misconception that the reason many fast bowlers and medium pacers break down these days is because of over-use

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

The 'reclusive' Tendulkar

Little is known about an important person behind Sachin Tendulkar's success, because the man himself, Ajit Tendulkar, has always kept a low profile

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

The poor man's Aussies

In Supercricket , Kepler Wessels writes that New Zealand would be better off without their intimidation tactics and just continue to play the game hard

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Cook's Twenty20 call-up creates confusion

Alastair Cook, who wasn't part of England's Twenty20 plans, was added to the squad as injury cover, following his new-found one-day form

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Let Sachin go, it will be okay

India's national selectors and the BCCI must now ask the critical questions of Sachin Tendulkar

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Fleming recalls back-from-dead tales

Australia's Damien Fleming was involved in probably two of the most famous death overs in World Cup history, in 1996 and 1999

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

It's crunch time for England's top five

With tours to Sri Lanka and India coming up, Andy Flower has plenty to work to do with England's batsmen

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

BCCI's high-handedness must stop

In the Mumbai Mirror , Deepak Narayanan likens the IPL to a big family seen in Indian TV soaps, with the powerful patron, successful uncle, bratty teenagers, earnest youngsters, uncared-for step sons, and even an exiled producer

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

A Test match for the Twitter generation

The frenetic fall of wickets and early finshes to the first two Tests in the UAE will have done little for the bank balances of the Pakistan Cricket Board or the local organising authorities, but the golf clubs of Dubai have probably done all right

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

One-off Tests serve no purpose

In the New Zealand Herald , David Leggat writes that anything less than a three-Test series is meaningless, for the sake of protecting Test cricket

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

A divorce that split Australia

In the early 20th century, Australia was gripped by a sectarian conflict between Catholics and Protestants, one which was believed to play a part in Donald Bradman not being so popular among some of his team-mates

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Where's India's next generation coming from?

After India's twin debacles in England and Australia, Makarand Waingankar in The Hindu asks if there are any solutions in sight to improve Indian cricket

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

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