Nikita Bastian

Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo

India's selectors must earn their money

Sachin Tendulkar is perfectly entitled to want to continue playing but the final decision should not be his, says Dileep Premachandran, in the National .

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Smith's uncanny capacity to unsettle England

England should remember that it is best not to rile Graeme Smith, Steve James points out in the Daily Telegraph .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Test cricket at Auckland's Tank Farm?

Amid the talk about bringing Test cricket back to Auckland with a stadium at Victoria Park, an article in the New Zealand Herald discusses the possibility of developing a Test venue at Tank Farm.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Don't judge Williamson on his early captaincy

Ahmed Rizvi, in the National , says giving Kane Williamson a longer run as New Zealand captain might be worthwhile.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Ryder's 114 seconds of glory

One minute, 54 seconds. That's how long it took for Jesse Ryder to knockout sports-radio host Mark Watson in their much-anticipated boxing match

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Why cricket is king

ESPNcricinfo editor Sambit Bal on why cricket - the Test format, in particular - is the best sport of all, in More Intelligent Life .

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From Khyber Pukhtunkhwa to Melbourne

Fawad Ahmed, a legspinner from Pakistan who is grabbing attention at the MCG nets, talks to the Australian Age 's Chloe Saltau about being threatened by religious extremists back home for playing the sport.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Australia can pip over-confident England

Shane Warne, in the Daily Telegraph , says England's over-confidence is bordering on arrogance at the moment and Australia could well win the one-day series.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The science of swing

Sports aerodynamics consultant and NASA scientist Rabindra Mehta on how weather conditions affect the ball’s aerodynamics, in the Dawn .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Bell settles quickly into Pietersen's role

Ian Bell has proven beyond doubt - and rather quickly - that he is a natural successor to Kevin Pietersen in England's one-day line-up, says Steve James, in the Sunday Telegraph .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

One-day cricket's player-investor conundrum

In light of Kevin Pietersen's retirement from limited-overs cricket, Stephen Brenkley, writing in the Independent , says one-day cricket is still the preferred format for the investors but may well die out if the players withdraw their support and

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Three teenagers, three seasons, 25,000 runs

The Indian Express ' Bharat Sundaresan and Devendra Pandey tell the story of three boys in their early teens who have been setting records in Mumbai

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Why not the Duleep for India's age-group cricketers?

The Hindu 's G Viswanath says the Duleep Trophy could be made more relevant if it featured young India hopefuls

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Auckland's Victoria Park, a stellar option for Tests

Max Bania, writing for TVNZ , says if it's true that plans are afoot for a 10,000-capacity purpose-built stadium at Victoria Park, it would be a huge boost not just for Auckland, but for the health of Test cricket in New Zealand.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Pakistan need a players' association

Mike Selvey, in the Guardian 's blog, on why Pakistan could do with a players' representative

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Want to be permanent member of SL side - Thirimanne

Lahiru Thirimanne talks to Island Cricket about how the influx of limited-over cricket has hindered his Test preparations, the 'Mankad' incident in Australia and more.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Coping with cricket’s commercialisation

An editorial in the Jamaica Observer on the effect of commercialisation on the game.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

First Larwood, now Anderson

The Declaration Game blog compares the decision to rest James Anderson to the decision to rest Harold Larwood three-quarters of a century ago.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

What is this primacy of Test cricket?

Time to be honest about the place Test cricket occupies in today's scenario, says Dileep Premachandran, in Wisden India .

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Settled England's one question

By Martin Jones, UK

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