Chandresh Narayanan is a senior cricket writer having served in different roles across all mediums. He has served with The Indian Express, The Times of India, Neo Sports and cricketnirvana.com. Later he served as content head for the official Indian Premier League (IPL) website in 2009-10. He then served for four years till July 2014 in Dubai with the International Cricket Council (ICC) as the Website, Media and Communications, Media Rights and Digital Officer. He has also reported on the 2007 Cricket World Cup for The Times of India and at the 2011 World Cup was on duty as ICC website manager. He is now an independent media professional who teaches, writes and talks on issues concerning his favourite sport. His first authored book on Cricket World Cup, looking back at heroes from previous champion sides, titled 'World Cup Heroes' has now hit the stands.
September 02, 2003 00:00 IST
The signs were already visible of India’s cricket establishment becoming media-savvy but today the BCCI took a firm step forward. On th...
Tue, Sep 02, 2003September 01, 2003 00:00 IST
After a marked improvement in the physical fitness of the Indian cricketers, it is strengthening of their minds that the Board of Control fo...
Mon, Sep 01, 2003September 01, 2003 00:00 IST
There will be some off-field action as well on Monday at the Karnataka State Cricket Association office. The technical committee of the BCCI...
Mon, Sep 01, 2003August 24, 2003 00:00 IST
IN the last couple of weeks India’s No 2 squash player Ritwik Bhattacharya is finally showing signs of fulfulling his unkept promise. H...
Sun, Aug 24, 2003August 20, 2003 00:00 IST
What do you do when your dreams of becoming an international cricketer fall through? Become a commentator...or play for Singapore. India, fa...
Wed, Aug 20, 2003August 18, 2003 00:00 IST
New Zealand cricket team is ‘‘more than happy’’ to play at Ahmedabad’s Motera Stadium on their forthcoming tour to ...
Mon, Aug 18, 2003August 14, 2003 00:00 IST
More than two months before the Australian cricketers land in India for the tri-series, their officials are here to the spade work for the v...
Thu, Aug 14, 2003August 12, 2003 00:00 IST
Javagal Srinath has said that a knee injury — suffered while playing for Durham a couple of months ago — could keep him out of the...
Tue, Aug 12, 2003August 05, 2003 00:00 IST
From the cool climes of Edgbaston, to muggy Chepauk, India ‘A’ vice-captain Hemang Badani has seen it all in just 48 hours. Soon a...
Tue, Aug 05, 2003July 29, 2003 00:00 IST
This was a tour which intended to separate the men from the boys, to see who could cut it in the big league. And if the assessment of the In...
Tue, Jul 29, 2003July 24, 2003 00:00 IST
After having spent five hectic years trying to implement the Green Revolution across the country’s cricket stadiums, Gopalswamy Kasturi...
Thu, Jul 24, 2003July 21, 2003 00:00 IST
India's hopes of a revival in its pace fortunes have taken a serious hit. The BCCI’s Ground and Wickets Committee chairman G Kasturiran...
Mon, Jul 21, 2003July 11, 2003 00:00 IST
As the bus revs up and India’s hockey players and junior cricketers also prepare to play across the border, two tennis players have set...
Fri, Jul 11, 2003July 11, 2003 00:00 IST
There's no injury crisis in the India ‘A’ team on tour in England, says team manager Samiran Chakraborty. However, in his defence ...
Fri, Jul 11, 2003July 09, 2003 00:00 IST
It's official. Sania Mirza is now a star. To clear up any doubts, ask the 16-year-old Hyderabadi how she felt as she came out of Mumbai’...
Wed, Jul 09, 2003July 06, 2003 00:00 IST
The spotlight of Indian tennis is already switching to Generation Next, and the diaspora is turning out to be a goldmine. While Leander and ...
Sun, Jul 06, 2003June 26, 2003 00:00 IST
India's No 10 seed Sania Mirza was knocked out of the Roehampton ITF Grade I junior tennis tournament, the last warm-up for Junior Wimbledon...
Thu, Jun 26, 2003June 20, 2003 00:00 IST
South African trainer Allistair McCaw, who is currently with the Dutch cricket team and a contender for taking over the Indian team, has den...
Fri, Jun 20, 2003May 10, 2003 00:00 IST
Sanna Bhambri on Friday showed that she was as good as her sister Ankita. Like her elder sister did for most of last year, Sanaa played a st...
Sat, May 10, 2003May 07, 2003 00:00 IST
The good news from India’s junior tennis players continues with the national team qualifying for the Junior Davis Cup (under-16) throug...
Wed, May 07, 2003May 06, 2003 00:00 IST
As the ice melts in the relations between India and Pakistan, the chances increase of the first tour by an Indian team since 1997, the likel...
Tue, May 06, 2003May 02, 2003 00:00 IST
For Venkatesh Prasad, life has taken a brand new turn. The lanky Karnataka seamer, in internatonal wilderness for some time now, had his hop...
Fri, May 02, 2003April 25, 2003 00:00 IST
Fresh blood is flowing through Indian women’s tennis and it’s sending out a simple message: All is well. And the messengers are th...
Fri, Apr 25, 2003April 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Finally, New Zealand Cricket (NZC), the Kiwis’ cricket board, has admitted that their pitch curators ‘over-reacted’ to the ca...
Thu, Apr 03, 2003