In the Indian Express, Harsha Bhogle is largely satisfied with India's 1-0 series win over New Zealand but wonders why MS Dhoni was uncharacteristically conservative in timing the declaration in the final Test.
... surely it should have been 2-0. Dhoni, often ready to go into battle with a shotgun, suddenly felt the need for greater caution. And so while bunkers were being built, anti-aircraft guns brought out, the enemy slipped away. 500 has never been threatened, 530 would have made India impregnable; it was the last 80 that saved New Zealand. Dhoni thought he needed another ten overs, he could have chosen to have had another fifteen
Kadambari Murali Wade writes in the Hindustan Times about Gautam Gambhir's transformation from a gifted kid who struggled at the international level to a player who is "on the threshold of a career that could one day be called great".
