Nikita Bastian

Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo

Newsfile: April 25

Luke Wright unwell: After Chris Gayle and Steven Smith, it’s now Pune Warriors’ allrounder Luke Wright who is unwell

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Give us raw emotion, stripped of commercialisation

By Indra Chakraborty, USA

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Cricketers pushed to the brink

Jesse Ryder’s decision to travel to the IPL with a clinical psychologist shows the kind of pressure that’s dogging cricketers, says Sriram Veera in the Mumbai Mirror

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Newsfile: April 24

Gibbs recovering from fractured finger: If you were wondering what was keeping big-hitting opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs out of the Mumbai Indians' XI, even when they’ve been facing some issues at the top of their line-up, it was a fractured

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Yuvraj on the World Cup, cancer and more

From India's World Cup glory to his fight against cancer and the IPL, Yuvraj Singh tells all in an interview with Shirin Sadikot for ipl20.com .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Newsfile: April 21

Tendulkar fit: Following a finger injury that kept him out of four IPL games out of Mumbai Indians' five this season, Sachin Tendulkar is set to return

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

How good is the IPL as a TV product?

By Aamod Desai, India ‘… And it’s time for the strategic time-out,’ the commentator says only to reappear – or rather, only to be reheard – about five seconds short of 2.5 minutes as the crowd at the ground counts down those seconds on the ticker

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

How Urdu commentary took root in Pakistan

Munir Hussain, the pioneer of Urdu cricket commentary in Pakistan, talks to the Dawn 's Shazia Hasan about how the idea developed and panned out more than four decades ago.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The IPL’s hidden attraction

It’s sweaty, the timings are inconvenient, the teams have hardly any local players, but every IPL match sees huge crowds and wildly extrovert behaviour, says Dilip Bobb in the Indian Express , and proceeds to explore why that is.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Quintessentially combative Ganguly lifts Pune

There is no doubting that no one understands the common cricketer's mind, heart, soul, and insecurities as well as Sourav Ganguly, says Bikash Singh on Yahoo Cricket .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

What IPL 2012 is missing

By Gareth Kidd, Australia

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Passion changes 'good' to 'exceptional'

George Bailey, Australia's Twenty20 captain, says in his blog that it's a passion for the game that drives the success of players like Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

How cricket was sold in India

Boria Majumdar, in Open , tells us how the BCCI went from paying Rs 5 lakh for matches played in India to be telecast, to being paid Rs 3,851 crore by broadcasters for the rights to Indian cricket.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Debunking the Tendulkar myth

Sachin Tendulkar does not slow down when approaching a 100, nor does India lose when he does well, says the Setpiecegoal blog, backed up by exhaustive statistical evidence.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The superlative overdose

By Harshad Sardeshmukh, India

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

IPL dealt dirty blow in Bangalore

So you've booked your tickets, dug out your Royal Challengers Bangalore flag and plan to head out to the next IPL game at Bangalore's Chinnaswamy Stadium

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

'As I turn 30, it's time for a few 100s'

Ian Bell, writing in the Independent , says after a couple of very good years with very few failures, the series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka had been a real struggle for him.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

How Anderson became one of England's best

Marc Higginson, writing for the BBC website, traces James Anderson's rise from a youngster plagued by inconsistency and injuries to one of England's premier bowlers.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Play five foreign players to help Indian cricket

By Karan Mamgain, Indonesia

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

The retired Rahul Dravid speaks

Prem Panicker, writing for Yahoo Cricket , talks to Rahul Dravid, who's on assignment with Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, about his retirement and other things.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

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