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.

December 21, 2004 00:03 IST
Even as the Indian team celebrated its sixth Test win of the year, Indian coach John Wright chose to watch from the sidelines, and then go o...
Tue, Dec 21, 2004
December 20, 2004 00:02 IST
Like many youngsters do, Mohammad Ashraful sought out Sachin Tendulkar after the first Test in Dhaka, and the Little Master had — among...
Mon, Dec 20, 2004
December 20, 2004 00:01 IST
Irfan Pathan today experienced both the high and the low of international cricket. Having picked just two tailenders from his 23 overs in th...
Mon, Dec 20, 2004
December 19, 2004 00:36 IST
John Gloster, Bangladesh’s ex-physio, this morning sent a message to this reporter to watch out for Mashrafe Bin Mortaza. It read: He i...
Sun, Dec 19, 2004
December 19, 2004 00:16 IST
The stage seemed set for Sachin Tendulkar’s 35th Test century but the event proved to be a non-starter. Tendulkar was back in the hut &...
Sun, Dec 19, 2004
December 17, 2004 00:35 IST
As if being the national selector of a ‘never-winning’ side wasn’t enough, Athar Ali Khan has to describe Bangladesh’s d...
Fri, Dec 17, 2004
December 17, 2004 00:31 IST
This isn’t a happy irony. As the nation celebrated its Victory Day today, its Test team was preparing for another defeat. The festive a...
Fri, Dec 17, 2004
December 16, 2004 01:24 IST
Show hunger and hit the nets on off day If team India, after the relatively comfortable victory in Dhaka, wanted a few days off, they couldn...
Thu, Dec 16, 2004
December 15, 2004 00:00 IST
This is probably his last tour with the Indian team, so they got together to say a special goodbye to Andrew Leipus, the man responsible for...
Wed, Dec 15, 2004
December 14, 2004 00:00 IST
The win was so predictable it lacked the euphoria that accompanies every Test victory (especially for India, away). But post-match activitie...
Tue, Dec 14, 2004
December 14, 2004 00:00 IST
It’s the one job in world cricket no one really wants but Dav Whatmore isn’t one for letting it get him down. Minutes after his si...
Tue, Dec 14, 2004
December 13, 2004 00:12 IST
It is 7.30 am, and among the scores of cricketers doing their morning workouts at the Dhanmondi cricket ground, one person — with a ser...
Mon, Dec 13, 2004
December 13, 2004 00:03 IST
The venue was the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, but the cricket for the day swung to the tune of two Baroda boys — one home...
Mon, Dec 13, 2004
December 12, 2004 00:51 IST
On Friday, Irfan Pathan put on a spell of disciplined fast bowling that knocked the stuffing out of Bangladesh. Today, he was emulated by Ma...
Sun, Dec 12, 2004
December 12, 2004 00:00 IST
It wasn’t one of his best but, after waiting nine months for this moment, Sachin Tendulkar accepted it with both hands and so joined Su...
Sun, Dec 12, 2004
December 11, 2004 00:00 IST
The chef grilling the chicken kebabs outside the Indian dressing room worked with an urgency not usual to these parts, but there was a good ...
Sat, Dec 11, 2004
December 11, 2004 00:00 IST
Anyone who believes that talk of his quitting has made John Wright lose focus or his competitive edge should have been at the Bangabandhu St...
Sat, Dec 11, 2004
December 10, 2004 00:00 IST
It's not just the footballing fraternity, or just India and Brazil that were shaken by Cristiano Junior’s tragic death. Away in Banglad...
Fri, Dec 10, 2004
December 10, 2004 00:00 IST
The wheel has turned an almost perfect circle for Sourav Ganguly. Four years ago, he made his debut as India’s Test captain at the Bang...
Fri, Dec 10, 2004
December 06, 2004 02:14 IST
Ricky Ponting and his men came and went in a blaze of publicity, every move recorded for posterity. But hours before Australia’s women ...
Mon, Dec 06, 2004
December 05, 2004 00:00 IST
IT has been debated in boardrooms and at dining tables. Is Indian cricket making too much money? By recent accounts the levels have reached ...
Sun, Dec 05, 2004
December 04, 2004 00:29 IST
There are few people across the world as qualified to discuss John Wright as Jeff Crowe is. The former New Zealand captain, coach and now IC...
Sat, Dec 04, 2004
December 03, 2004 00:35 IST
The Indian team is a combination of artists, record-holders, classicists and prodigious talent but there’s no doubt that its soul, the ...
Fri, Dec 03, 2004
December 02, 2004 00:00 IST
There is something about Eden Gardens that turns Harbhajan Singh on. He got in on the action early enough on Wednesday, entrusted the respon...
Thu, Dec 02, 2004
December 01, 2004 00:00 IST
If there’s one man in India who can rightly claim to know the workings of Sachin Tendulkar’s cricketing mind, it’s Ramakant A...
Wed, Dec 01, 2004


