Kanishkaa Balachandran

Smart move by Oram

Jacob Oram's decision to quit Tests to prolong his limited-overs career is a smart one, because he knows his time at the top is running out, writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

The Vermeulen redemption

It's close to three years to the day when Mark Vermeulen, struggling to cope with anger, depression and frustration, torched the Zimbabwe academy and later faced the prospect of 25 years' imprisonment

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Spirit of the Game still upheld at highest level

The ICC Champions Trophy had its fair share of incidents which re-opened the debate on fairplay and the Spirit of the Game

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Champions 'whatever' League

The Champions League is less than a week old

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

The PCB is neglecting youth cricket

Pakistan's domestic cricket calender for 2009-10 is flawed because it doesn't pay much attention to youth cricket and the sport in the country will only take a backward step

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Hedonic regression and the IPL

How to buy an IPL cricketer

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Cricket's club culture

The traditionalists will see the next 16 days as an opportunity to switch off from the game and ignore the hooplah but for Twenty20 enthusiasts the potential for the Champions League is obvious, writes Tristan Holme in cricket365 .

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

The low tolerance levels in Pakistan

Heroes one day, villains the next

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Hodge hasn't given up on lawn bowls

Brad Hodge hasn't had the best of relationships with the national selectors

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

New Zealand's semi-final hoodoo

And once again New Zealand meet ther old friends Pakistan a big tournament semi-final

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Strauss the tough guy played it just right

In his column in the Daily Mail , Nasser Hussain writes that Andrew Strauss did the right thing by denying Graeme Smith a runner at Centurion, but disagress with the England captain's decision to recall Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews after a run-out

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Two heads would work better than one

The four-page vision document circulated among the Indian players, and the one that landed with the media, has raised pertinent questions, not just with the contents of the document, but also on how Gary Kirsten was "kept in the dark" about its

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

The equation is simple for New Zealand

No messing about with net run-rates or winning within a certain number of overs, or losing but sneaking in because the margin of defeat was slim

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

England in the semis, seriously?

Two 'shocking' wins against tournament favourites and England are suddenly the anti-thesis of the one-day team we are so accustomed to seeing

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

County Cricket 2009: an inexorable decline?

In the Telegraph , Steve James reviews the unfulfilling 2009 county season and comes up with his list of awards.

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Kirsten and Upton should stick to coaching

The four-page dossier to the Indian team has generated a lot of unwanted attention

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Collingwood: England's nearly man

When Paul Collingwood started out on his England career eight summers ago, nobody, least of all himself, would have entertained the thought that he would become England's most capped one-day cricketer

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

'Defeat against England was very frustrating'

Mahela Jayawardene, writing for the Sunday Times , talks about Sri Lanka's two games and what went wrong against England at the Wanderers.

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Familiar woes for New Zealand

New Zealand were flogged in their opening game against South Africa because of a lack of vim in their cricket and boldness in their selection, writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

NZ know they're not good enough

Poor shots appears to be the norm when it comes to New Zealand's batting, and what makes all parties so frustrated is between getting out there is some quality batting going on, writes Mark Richardson in the Herald on Sunday

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

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