Nikita Bastian

Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo

‘Malaria’ in the Rajasthan Royals dressing room

Shane Warne’s routine of dishing out nicknames to his Rajasthan Royals team-mates continues with Ashok Menaria being christened ‘Doxy’

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

Tishani Doshi reviews Shehan Karunatilaka's book, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew , in the Observer

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Siegfried Sassoon: the bravest cricketer of them all

Scyld Berry, writing in the Daily Telegraph , tells us about Siegfried Sassoon - the soldier and the cricketer.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Time to look beyond the 'Indian Problem League'

The IPL is fast turning into a Frankenstein, says Suresh Menon, writing in DNA

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Strumming it the Wright way

Ever thought we’d use John Wright and rock music in the same sentence

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

A toast to the medium-pace bowler

It takes a true connoisseur of the game to appreciate the medium-pace bowler, says Harry Pearson, writing in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Man management, the key to Kirsten's success

Differences in language, culture and religion make India a hard team to manage, says Makarand Waingankar, writing in the Hindu

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

England's new, talented kid on the block

Barney Gibson - who broke a 144-year-old record on Wednesday to become England’s youngest first-class cricketer - on getting a call up for Yorkshire's first team and sitting down to homework after dinner

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Rookies in the role of main performers

Wouldn't it have been a help to West Indies' youngsters to have Ramnaresh Sarwan or Shivnarine Chanderpaul meeting them at the crease at some stage to rotate the strike, to deal with Saeed Ajmal and to take some of the pressure off them during the

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Fact: There's too much darn cricket on

With there being no such thing as a cricket season - unless you’re referring to the period between January 1 and December 31 - cricket is being robbed of it's meaning says Shehan Karunatilaka, writing in Outlook India .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

A case of Test v Twenty20, not Country v Club

Sandeep Dwivedi, writing in the Indian Express , says Lasith Malinga has merely chosen a format of the game that suits his frail physical condition

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Left-arm spinners to try the <i>doosra</i>?

With Daniel Vettori saying the day when a left-arm spinner will bowl the doosra is not far, S Dinakar, writing in the Hindu , examines the implications of such an innovation.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

R Ashwin: happy to wait his turn

Harbhajan Singh is a great, while he's just stepping on to cricket's ladder, R Ashwin tells Sanjjeev K Samyal in an interview in the Hindustan Times

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

'Sachin Tendulkar is my hero' - Mahesh Bhupathi

India's tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi, writing in DNA , says despite being fully aware of the fact that athletes cannot perform daily, he selfishly expects Sachin Tendulkar to score every time he bats for India

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

How Warne got his new look

No, Shane Warne has not had a facelift

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

A look at the <i>Wisden Almanack</i>

Martin Chandler, writing in Cricket Web , reviews the Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 2011 .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Cricket in baseball’s Hall of Fame

The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, has an unusual new exhibit lined-up

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Cricket, sprinting and the Bolt brothers

Usain Bolt's younger brother, Sadiki, opens up about his Olympic-champion sibling's bowling exploits, his own plans to make it big in cricket and their life in Jamaica

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The way ahead for the English domestic game

While county cricket has had notable success in feeding the England Test team, maybe it's time to look to the franchise model for limited-overs domestic competitions says Robin Scott-Elliot, writing in the Independent .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Plunket Shield team of the year

TVNZ's Max Bania takes a look at how the Plunket Shield players fared this season, and puts together his 'Team of the Year'.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

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