Nishi Narayanan

Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo

In the presence of Freddie

The Observer 's Adrian Deevoy takes his friend along for an interview with Andrew Flintoff and despite having seen him on innumerable cricket pitches across the years his friend is shocked into silence by Flintoff's sheer physical presence.

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Antonym of a modern cricketer

Munaf Patel has taken 11 wickets in 13 matches for the Rajasthan Royals and Varun Gupta, in profiling the injury-prone Indian bowler in the Hindustan Times , writes that he is the antonym of the modern dapper cricketer.

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

What a victory?

England won the second Test against New Zealand with a day to spare but not everyone is convinced by the victory

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Strauss's favourite oppostion

Andrew Strauss's composed second-innings century was instrumental in England's win over New Zealand at Old Trafford and Alan Lee writes in the Times that Strauss owes his Test career, the making of it and the saving of it, to centuries

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Squash-ball exploits

The IPL is working out as a trading centre for cricketing tips and Adam Gilchrist's World Cup squash-ball trick is now being used by Deccan Chargers' Venugopal Rao to considerable effect

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

An Eden debut for Fleming

Stephen Fleming looks forward to making his debut at the Eden Gardens when he plays for the Chennai Super Kings against the Kolkata Knight Riders

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Cricket in the corporate era

The reaction of Vijay Mallya, the owner of the Bangalore Royal Challengers franchise, to his team's poor performance in the IPL has brought a new word in to cricket - accountability - writes Harsha Bhogle in the Indian Express

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Playing in Staten Island

Would you read a book on cricket written by an Irishman, raised in Netherlands, educated at Cambridge, now living in New York?

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

All sorts at Lord's

Blogger Paul Holden enjoys the first Test of the season at Lord's even with all the rain

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Players need professional advice

Anil Kumble has bowled alongside Harbhajan Singh for a decade and is now his Test captain

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Moolah-run rate

Are players performing up to their IPL price tags

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

IPL tested by Harbhajan-Sreesanth row

Harbhajan Singh has been temporarily suspended from the Mumbai Indians side for his on-field altercation with Sreesanth and the Hindustan Times editors wonder if they were wrong in presuming the new professionalism among Indian cricketers would

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Children of controversy

Harbhajan Singh is involved in yet another on-field controversy and Times of India 's Bobilli Vijay Kumar wants to know how long have these wounds been festering between these two highly volatile players, what riled Harbhajan so much that he

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

IPL what success?

In this great attempt to make the IPL appear the biggest success of the century none of us is being told how the organisers, except perhaps in Kolkata, are struggling to sell tickets and most of the full houses we watched are courtesy generously

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

IPL feeds off international players

The Indian Premier League is a good thing, so long as we understand that it’s only fun because it attracts Test and one- day stars from around the world, writes Alex Parker, in the Johannesburg-based Times .

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Game on

From games on field to the ones online - IPL is taking cricket places

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

A cricket rock star

With his fireworks in the opening game of the IPL, Brendon McCullum has had the doors to India's massive commercial opportunities unlocked for him, writes Dylan Cleaver in the New Zealand Herald .

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

The tamasha of IPL

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is picking up some Tamil and refusing to call the match between the Chennai Superkings and Kings XI Punjab a face-off between him and Yuvraj Singh

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

No more Kanpur, please

Though he thinks the series ended with a fair result, Jacques Kallis is keen not to play in Kanpur for a third time

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Mendis in a good way

West Indies clinched the series against Sri Lanka after they won the second ODI in Trinidad

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