Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

The left-armers' curse?

Zaheer Khan is just one in a long recent line of left-armer seamers to have been plagued by injury

28-Mar-2009•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

A bold withdrawal

Dhoni pulling out of the Sri Lanka Test series is significant for a number of reasons

09-Jul-2008

Amla's healing touch

With his gentle smile and composed batting, Hashim Amla seems a throwback to an earlier age

27-Mar-2008

Rotation comes round again

Having more or less separate teams for Tests and ODIs is working well for India - but not for too many other teams, oddly enough

10-Mar-2008•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Yuvraj lacks fight, not just form

Yuvraj Singh needs to find the biggest requisite for cutting it at the Test level: desire

10-Jan-2008

Alarm bells ringing loud

India would ideally want five bowlers for the four Tests against Australia but a perplexing situation has presented itself: the first four choices are injured

05-Dec-2007

Part of a method or plain madness?

The decision to drop Rahul Dravid appears to be one based on the present and not on the future

27-Oct-2007

Four questions for India's selectors

A look at the major issues staring India's selectors in the face when they meet to pick the team for the Pakistan one-dayers

26-Oct-2007

A selectorial free-for-all

The selections for Challengers seem to be based on whims more than performance

23-Oct-2007

India's need for change cannot be ignored

India's rebuilding process will entail a few defeats along the way but it's the only way that the batch of 2011 are going to compete against the rest

09-Sep-2007

A little tact won't hurt Greg Chappell

Candour remains an admirable virtue; but Chappell will know that leadership goes well with some tact and diplomacy

06-Mar-2006•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

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