Venkatraman Ramnarayan

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Venkatraman Ramnarayan (born 8 November 1947, in Madras) is a former Indian first-class cricketer and current journalist, editor, translator and teacher.

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Cricket career

An off-spin bowler, Ramnarayan left his native Tamil Nadu and moved to Hyderabad in 1971 to see if he could break into first-class cricket. [1] In the final of the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament in October 1975 he took 8 for 75 in the first innings for Hyderabad Cricket Association XI, who went on to win the match. [2] A week later he made his first-class debut for Hyderabad against Kerala in the Ranji Trophy, taking 6 for 33 in the first innings. [3] A further week later, in the first innings against Andhra, he took 6 for 41. [4] In the quarter-final against Bombay he took 7 for 68 in the first innings, but Bombay won the match after trailing on the first innings, and went on to win the championship. [5]

With 28 wickets at an average of 17.32, 1975-76 was Ramnarayan's most successful season, but he continued to play for Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy until 1979-80. [6] He also played for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy in 1978-79 and in 1980-81 when, in his last first-class match, he took 4 for 144 off 51 overs in the first innings. [7]

Journalism career

Ramnarayan is a regular columnist for Cricinfo , the editor of Sruti , a monthly performing arts magazine, and a teacher at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. He has also translated books from Tamil into English. [8]

In 2015 he published a memoir of his first-class cricket career, Third Man: Recollections from a Life in Cricket. [9] [10] He writes under the name "V. Ramnarayan".

Books by V. Ramnarayan

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References

  1. ↑ Veera, Sriram (22 November 2007). "One that drifted away". Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Hyderabad Cricket Association XI v JK Sports XI 1975-76". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Kerala v Hyderabad 1975-76". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Hyderabad v Andhra 1975-76". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Bombay v Hyderabad 1975-76". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "First-class bowling in each season by Venkatraman Ramnarayan". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Central Zone v South Zone 1980-81". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  8. ↑ Ugra, Sharda (9 May 2015). "First-class tales". Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "Third Man: Recollections from a Life in Cricket". Westland. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  10. ↑ Samanth Subramanian (November 2015). "Unknown cricketers". The Cricket Monthly . ESPN Cricinfo . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
Venkatraman Ramnarayan
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Born (1947-11-08) 8 November 1947 (age 76)
Madras, India
BattingRight-handed
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Relations Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan (nephew), V. Sivaramakrishan (brother)
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