Vedam Jaishankar is a cricket correspondent with a career spanning three decades during which he travelled 5o six continents while covering cricket. After a stint with the

Deccan Herald ''Deccan Herald'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka. It was founded by businessman K. N. Guruswamy and launched on 17 June 1948. It is published by The Printers Mysore, a privately hel ...

, he moved to

The Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the ''Indian Express Group''. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. In 1999, eight y ...

where he was the principal cricket correspondent for many years. He is the author of a popular book, Rahul Dravid, a biography.

Early life

Cricket has been an abiding passion with him and he has played school college and club cricket with a number of well known cricketers. He coached for a few years in the Brijesh Patel Cricket Academy before the demands of journalism made him give up coaching. He has occasionally done Television and Radio commentary of the game. Jaishankar was the office bearer of the Sports Writers Association of Bangalore and its parent body Sports Journalist Federation of India. He received the for excellence in Sports Journalism from the Karnataka State Government and the for outstanding contribution to Journalism. He also served in the Board of Control for Cricket in India's Accreditation Committee in two World Cup tournaments.

Career

After working with Deccan Herald, he had a long stint with

The New Indian Express ''The New Indian Express'' is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as ''The Indian Express'', under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu ...

as its main cricket writer. Later, Jaishankar worked briefly as the founder managing editor of ''Bangalore Bias'', an English language afternoon paper in Bangalore which stopped publication after a few years. He also worked for Times of India. He authored three books, the best-seller,

Rahul Dravid Rahul Dravid (; born 11 January 1973) is a former cricket player, ex-captain and ex-coach of the Indian national cricket team. Known for his outstanding batting technique, Dravid scored 24,177 runs in international cricket and is widely re ...

, a Biography, Casting A Spell - The Story of Karnataka Cricket and, 'Courage, conviction, controversy and cricket'. The Dravid biography was also officially translated into four languages. A veteran of several World Cups, he last covered the 2003 edition in South Africa, for Vijay Times that he helped launch. Jaishankar writes for SPIN, a British cricket magazine besides a number of Indian publications. He writes in many Indian publications. He also teaches sports journalism.

References

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