Kanishkaa Balachandran

Iain O’Brien, the Mule

New Zealand's Iain O'Brien is not a devastating wrecker with the ball, but he is an increasingly important player in the New Zealand Test team and one of its more interesting characters

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Kumble: A hard act to follow

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

England strategically bankrupt

Mike Selvey in the Guardian writes that the England XI got what they deserved in the Stanford 20/20 for 20

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Stanford's Montserrat heroics

The tiny island of Montserrat, tucked away in the Leeward Islands, was remembered for all the wrong reasons

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Humbled and walloped

Was England's trip really worth it

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Oram the enigma in 13-piece puzzle

Jacob Oram's forced return home from the tour of Bangladesh due to injury may well lead to him foregoing his role as an allrounder and play as a batsman alone, at least for the tour of Australia coming up, writes Dylan Cleaver in the New Zealand

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Anderson mugged on way to the bank

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Red and yellow cards for cricket?

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Ranji fixtures far from perfect

In the Hindu , Makarand Waingankar points out the obvious flaws in the Ranji Trophy fixtures this season, which does not allow enough time for players to rest in-between matches

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

A flooded control room

The host broadcasters of the India-Australia series, Nimbus, got off to a horrific start at the Feroz Shah Kotla, though due to no fault of their own

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Stanford's game isn't cricket, so what is it?

Another day, and the disquiet over the whole Stanford venture rumbles on, with particular attention now being paid to the role of the ECB in the whole affair.

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Give Intikhab the right job

Asif Iqbal, in his column for the News has backed the PCB's decision to appoint Intikhab Alam as the coach of Pakistan but cautioned that his role needs to be specified clearly before he takes over

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Procter's toughest challenge awaits

Mike Procter's appointment as the South African chairman of selectors is a high-profile one, given his experience as a cricketer and a an ICC match referee

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Too many questions for comfort

Duncan Fletcher, the former England coach, isn't a big fan of the winner-takes-all US$20 million Stanford shootout

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The King is not yet dead

Harsha Bhogle, in the Indian Express , feels it's too premature to write Australia off on the basis of one heavy defeat

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Call it Vettori's Test

It'll be called many other things besides but New Zealand's hard-fought win in Chittagong will be remembered as Daniel Vettori's match, writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald .

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Passing the baton to Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni may have done enough in his two Tests as captain to prove that he's the right man to take over the job full time, but the man he will have to thank for shaping the team is Anil Kumble, writes Anand Vasu in the Hindustan Times

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Losing Private Ryan

On the issue of Ryan McLaren's withdrawal from the South African squad, Neil Manthop, in Supercricket , feels Kent could have allowed him to fulfill his international dream and still had him for 90% of next season if they had been prepared to

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

What it takes to be a PCB chairman

Shortly after the appointment of Ijaz Butt as the PCB chairman, Asif Iqbal, the former Pakistan captain, is puzzled at the number of calls from different quarters to have a prominent former cricketer head the board

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

It's all business for Stephen Fleming

So what's keeping Stephen Fleming busy these days

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