Nishi Narayanan

Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo

Flabby in the middle

India's heavyweight middle order is full of flab, not muscle, as its record in the past three years shows

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Ramnarine lacking support and history

The West Indies Players' Association has expanded its activities and interests, and grown more vociferous and assertive, but respect and power seem elusive

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Goliath's fear of the little Davids

India's big four are considered batting stars yet the bowlers who have been successful against them are the decade's half-forgotten names

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Reserves humble the stars

More praise pours in for England's young bowling attack which had India on the verge of defeat before rain and bad light ruined England's chances of gaining a 1-0 lead in the Test series

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Get a hundred to fix that fatigue

Kevin Pietersen has just scored his third hundred of the summer - an innings that may set up a 1-0 lead for England in their three-Test series against India

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Fear of the future

Vaneisa Baksh on why the West Indies cricket establishment isn't looking kindly on Allen Stanford's plans

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Where is the British West Indian fan?

There has been a sharp fall in the number of British West Indian supporters in England grounds and David Conn of The Guardian believes cricket is certainly no longer the glue binding the community together

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Another day, another mess

By not advertising for the post or sending out feelers as soon as Greg Chappell left for Australia, the board overestimated its own hand

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Leaving on a high

Dav Whatmore has been Bangladesh's most successful coach and the The Daily Star terms his departure from the post as a peaceful one, unlike the "sorry and painful departures of Indian Mohinder Amarnath, West Indies great Gordon Greenidge, South

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Whither Tendulkar?

Sachin Tendulkar notched up a 37th Test hundred against Bangladesh at Dhaka but it wasn't the Tendulkar the world knows, write Sidharth Monga and S Rajesh

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

When is a boycott not a boycott?

Brydon Coverdale asks why governments and cricket administrators can't seem to reach a definitive conclusion on touring Zimbabwe

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Tanzanians and Ugandans in Africa team

Some good news for the spread of cricket to regions where the sport hasn’t gained much popularity comes in the way of the selection of two players from Tanzania and two from Uganda in the Africa team for the Afro-Asia tournament in India this June

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

A farce, a fiasco, a debacle or a shambles?

Tim de Lisle looks back the World Cup and concludes that as an event, it committed the crime that sports administrators are apt to accuse players of: it brought the game into disrepute

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Awesome Australia but awful organising

It was entirely appropriate that a sorry tournament should have a sorry end, though it must be said that the embarrassment in the final moments far exceeded anything that preceded it, writes Sambit Bal

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Pure ignorance of the rule-book

Andrew Miller despairs the increasing corporatisation of the game robbing it of spontaneity at every level, so much so that even the weather is no longer capable of making an appearance without tying the administrators in knots

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Sarwan the gambler

The new West Indies captain has breezed through his career so far based on his obvious talent

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Enemy of your (auld) enemy is your friend

In the Super Eights, in one of the most closely-contested matches of the tournament, Sri Lanka had defeated England by two runs, putting paid to their hopes of making it to the semis

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

And now... news from the land like no other

Sri Lanka's tourism authorities are using the World Cup to attract visitors to the country

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

The unlikely amazement of Howard

Australian Prime Minister John Howard will be an amazed man if Australia don't win the World Cup

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

The World Cup merry-go-round

Osman Samiuddin looks at the coaching clearout which has followed the World Cup

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

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