The finger points at NZ Cricket
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
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Don't blame Auckland Cricket and Auckland coach Mark O'Donnell for James Anderson's bowling heroics on day two of the current test match, writes Mark Richardson in the New Zealand Herald.
If you want to blame someone, blame New Zealand Cricket- if you want to absolve the NZ top order of any responsibility. To leave O'Donnell carrying the can is too simplistic. What recent events have shown is a lack of cohesion between NZC and the provinces.
There will be a game within a game when New Zealand meets England this week in Napier in what is shaping as the series decider, writes Dylan Cleaver in the same newspaper.
The IPL continues to be a point of discussion. Paul Lewis, in the same paper, says, in terms of sporting endeavour and prestige, the IPL is to cricket what diarrhoea is to dodgy curry houses - an unfortunate by-product.
Richard Boock has some thoughts in the Sunday Star Times. "First it was burnout - deemed the crime of the century until the players saw the colour of India's money," he writes. "Now it's test match preparation. Overrated apparently. Not needed at all, if you listen to the New Zealand captain. If it wasn't so nauseatingly transparent it would be funny.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo