Nikita Bastian

Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo

Working hard to be at best on Boxing Day - Clarke

Michael Clarke, writing in Australia's Daily Telegraph , says his team takes responsibility for the batting in Hobart

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Sri Lanka's cricket crisis

The BBC 's Charles Haviland examines the controversies in Sri Lankan cricket.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

How Rohit Sharma turned a corner

Rohit's journey back to the Indian team included an 'eggcentric' diet, jogging with his driver and shedding eight kgs

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Sehwag's refusal to conform is part of his charm

Among current batsmen, Virender Sehwag is the one most likely to bring on an epidemic of insomnia among opposition captains, says Ian Chappell, writing in the Hindustan Times .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Footballers spruce up stadium for cricket match

The financial imbalance between cricket and other sports in India is well documented

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

An open letter to Agarkar and Zaheer

In Mid-Day , Shishir Hattangadi, the former Mumbai captain, responds to Ajit Agarkar's decision to return home from Cuttack after being dropped for the Ranji Trophy match against Orissa, and Zaheer Khan's ensuing criticism of the Mumbai team

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The cricketer who googled her way into a team

You’ve probably googled for information on top restaurants, vacation spots or scientific explanations, right

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Kallis' genius is empirical

Batting or bowling, Jacques Kallis has the numbers to prove that he's one of the all time greats, even if does not always gives the impression that he belongs in that pantheon, says the Old Batsman in his blog .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Do Ranji Trophy performances matter?

Does it mean anything when one of India's Test hopefuls, Rohit Sharma, scores 175 in the Ranji Trophy, when at the same time three others hit double-centuries and an all-rounder not in the reckoning for a Test slot, Ravindra Jadeja, hammers 314, asks

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The pursuit of rapid runs

Osman Samiuddin, writing for the National , anticipates much change on both batting and bowling fronts, especially in Test cricket

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

South Africa's 'new toys'

South Africa’s cricketers have some “new toys”, to quote Dale Steyn

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Basil D'Oliveira's extraordinary life

Author Peter Oborne, Basil D'Oliveira's biographer, remembers the former England all-rounder on BBC Sport

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

One hundred gold coins for 100 tons

A century is worth its weight in gold for any team, some people say

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Structuring Indian cricket, European football style

Venkat Ananth, writing for Yahoo Cricket , puts forward a suggestion on how the BCCI could start something called the 'high performance programme' to benefit Indian cricket in the long run

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

100th-ton memorabilia already lined up

It’s been eight months since Sachin Tendulkar last got to the three-figure mark

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Australia susceptible against moving ball

Malcolm Conn, writing in Australia's Daily Telegraph says the Cape Town debacle shows that batsmen brought up on a glut of short-form cricket and easy Twenty20 money are unwilling or unable to deal with the moving ball.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

New Zealand cricket in bad shape - Andre Adams

Fast bowler Andre Adams is performing well in English county cricket and tells Radio Sport 's Guy Heveldt that if he was able to come back to New Zealand, he'd be up to international level

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Vivian Richards salutes the original Smokin' Joe

Vivian Richards talks to Mid-Day 's Clayton Murzello about Joe Frazier, who died on November 8 after a battle with cancer.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

I was successful as I had killer's instinct - Imran

Belinda Luscombe, from Time , has a brief chat with Imran Khan on his links with cricket and politics.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

'Never felt I'm the greatest bowler'

Muttiah Muralitharan talks to Mihir Bose, writing for the London Evening Standard , about his career, who he thinks are the best batsmen, umpire Darrell Hair and, among other things, his fondness for Galle.

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