Vedam Jaishankar
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Vedam Jaishankar is an experienced cricket correspondent with a career spanning two decades during which he has travelled extensively and covered cricketing in six continents across the globe. 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. After a stint with the Deccan Herald
he moved to The Indian Express
where he was the principal cricket correspondent for many years. 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.
Jaishankar is the founder managing editor of Bangalore Bias, an English language afternoon paper in Bangalore after a long stint with The New Indian Express
as its main cricket writer. He authored the best-seller book, Rahul Dravid, a Biography and Casting A Spell, The Story of a Cricket. The Dravid biography was also officially translated into three 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.
Deccan Herald
The Deccan Herald is a leading English-language daily newspaper distributed in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is published by the Printers Private Limited and has a number of editions in Bangalore, Hubli, Mysore, Mangalore and Gulbarga....
he moved to The Indian Express
The Indian Express
The Indian Express is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is published in Mumbai by Indian Express Group. After Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split in 1999 among his family members into two with the southern editions taking the name The New Indian Express, while the old...
where he was the principal cricket correspondent for many years. 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.
Jaishankar is the founder managing editor of Bangalore Bias, an English language afternoon paper in Bangalore after a long stint with The New Indian Express
The New Indian Express
The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as the Indian Express, under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu. In 1991, following the death of the then owner Ramnath Goenka, the Goenka...
as its main cricket writer. He authored the best-seller book, Rahul Dravid, a Biography and Casting A Spell, The Story of a Cricket. The Dravid biography was also officially translated into three 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.