Nishi Narayanan

Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo

You're not going to win

England have returned home following the Mumbai attacks and though the Tests are scheduled to be played it still isn't clear if the team will come back to India

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Televised selection meetings?

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s criticism of leaks from selection meetings included a suggestion that if what went on inside closed doors had to come out then the whole meeting might as well be televised

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

India is not yet Pakistan

The survival of the game could be under threat if India as a venue gets excluded from international cricket, writes Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times .

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Kabir Ali escaped Taj terror strikes

Kabir Ali, the England fast bowler, was lucky to escape the terrorist strikes in Mumbai on Wednesday night after he chose to skip dinner at the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the venues attacked, to for a movie.

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

The closeness of danger

Terrorism, which is ever-present, becomes something more tangible when cricketers are able to contextualise: hotels they have stayed in, cafés they have drunk in and bars in which they might have whiled away a few hours before a rare day off,

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Ed Smith's retirement is a loss to professional cricket

Without Ed Smith, the Middlesex dressing room, and by extension the professional game, will be that little bit more uniform, that little less diverse, writes Mike Atherton in the Times .

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Time to get a clock

What cricket needs in order to better itself is a clock

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Time for England and India to step up

While Australian dominance over the past 13 years has been based, like West Indies before them, on a happy confluence of a number of great cricketers in one generation, Australia's strength as a cricketing nation over a longer period of time has

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

What was Ponting thinking?

Ricky Ponting has denied his side a deserved chance of securing a famous victory by using part-timers instead of his seamers in an attempt to up the over-rate, writes Peter Roebuck in the Sydney Morning Herald .

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Double trouble

VVS Laxman and Gautam Gambhir scored double-centuries for India on day two of the third Test against Australia in Delhi

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

English cricket is a Stanford WAG

English cricket has become Stanford's WAG, declares Mike Atherton in the Times .

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Antigua's past, present and future

The three main cricket grounds in Antigua - Recreation Ground, the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium and the Stanford Cricket Ground - encapsulate the story of the sport on the island, writes Mike Atherton in the Times .

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Stanford in bad taste or in spirit of cricket?

England take on Middlesex in their first match of the Stanford Super Series on Sunday but the English dailies have mixed feelings about by the show in Antigua

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Mishra's journey to the Indian side

Before his call-up to the Indian side, legspinner Amit Mishra, who took seven wickets on Test debut, faced a lot of disappointments and nearly gave up the game

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Two little masters

Sunil Gavaskar was the first batsman to get to 10,000 runs and Sachin Tendulkar was the first to get to 12,000

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Ganguly the significant, not the great

Ever since he announced his retirement, Sourav Ganguly has been elevated to greatness, but the fact is he gained by association, writes Suresh Menon in Tehelka magazine.

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Tendulkar’s Everest

For long the most startling thing about Sachin Tendulkar’s iridescent career was its inevitability, write the editors at the Hindu .

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Kola Burger takes ten in Namibia's win

By Tony Munro

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

A view of Tendulkar's slippers

Several tributes to Sachin Tendulkar's record-breaking feat have come by the way of personal memories of the batsman

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Captain Ranatunga v chairman Ranatunga

When Arjuna Ranatunga took over as Sri Lanka's captain, the consensus was that finally the game had got the man it wanted

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

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