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An eight-year-old lad from Lucknow landed with his family at Delhi’s Mall Road in 1945 to find the British officers playing cricket in the vicinity. He walked across an almost deserted road to the Delhi University cricket ground and watched the inter-college cricket tournament. It was a scenario that enchanted him. Moreover, as a natural outcome, that boy was soon playing cricket for his school, college and club and went on to become India’s pioneer Hindi cricket commentator. On the way there was conflict between passion and profession. Zoology weaned him away from the cricket creaRead More...

Educated at Delhi University, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the University of Windsor, Canada, he kept a perfect balance between his profession (Zoology teaching) and his passion (commentary). His tryst with journalism pitchforked him to the national and international reckoning. His articles in dailies at home and abroad, both in English and Hindi, culminated in his articles being published in Cricketers’ Almanac Wisden. Some of the legendary Indian and Caribbean cricketers hold him in high esteem as a commentator. Chaturvedi has authored 23 cricket books (15 English + 7 Hindi + 1 Marathi), besides penning a chapter-Contribution of Indo-West Indians to Caribbean Cricket in a book-Sojourners to Settlers, published in New York.

A popular commentator, prominent sports journalist and a Zoology teacher of standing, Prof. Chaturvedi is a man of innumerable interests and involvement in environment conservation, aviation, community developmental work in his ancestral village Dalip Nagar in Kanpur and a public speaker on cricket-related topics. His first commentary from the West Indies in 1976 led to his Caribbean fondness. Since then, his periodic sojourns to these picturesque islands has made him widely known in the Caribbean, especially in the twin island of Trinidad & Tobago. Through his writings, he has promoted cricket in the ICC’s associate countries such as Bhutan, Hawaii, Kuwait, Maldives, Malaysia and Singapore. Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi was bestowed with the Padma Shri by the Govt. of India in 2012 for establishing, popularizing and providing credibility to Hindi cricket commentary.

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I have been handed the new ball and asked to bowl the opening spell in this book of Cricket Commentary and Commentators. It was always my ambition to play Test cricket for India, but I was allergic to grass. A pity because I would have been the silliest mid-on to have played Test cricket. My long leg would have been a sensation. There have never been swingers to match mine. I used to be such an agile fielder that a piece of music ‘Third Man Theme’ was comp

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An eight-year-old lad from Lucknow landed with his family at Delhi’s Mall Road in 1945 to find the British officers playing cricket in the vicinity. He walked across an almost deserted road to the Delhi University cricket ground and watched the inter-college cricket tournament. It was a scenario that enchanted him. Moreover, as a natural outcome, that boy was soon playing cricket for his school, college and club and went on to become India’s pioneer Hindi cricket commentator. On the way there was conflict between passion and profession. Zoology weaned him away from the cricket crease, but not completely. He made the commentary box his own. Rest is a fable! 
 
Educated at Delhi University, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the University of Windsor, Canada, he kept a perfect balance between his profession (Zoology teaching) and his passion (commentary). His tryst with journalism pitchforked him to the national and international reckoning. His articles in dailies at home and abroad, both in English and Hindi, culminated in his articles being published in Cricketers’ Almanac Wisden. Some of the legendary Indian and Caribbean cricketers hold him in high esteem as a commentator. Chaturvedi has authored 23 cricket books (15 English + 7 Hindi + 1 Marathi), besides penning a chapter-Contribution of Indo-West Indians to Caribbean Cricket in a book-Sojourners to Settlers, published in New York.
 
A popular commentator, prominent sports journalist and a Zoology teacher of standing, Prof. Chaturvedi is a man of innumerable interests and involvement in environment conservation, aviation, community developmental work in his ancestral village Dalip Nagar in Kanpur and a public speaker on cricket-related topics. His first commentary from the West Indies in 1976 led to his Caribbean fondness. Since then, his periodic sojourns to these picturesque islands has made him widely known in the Caribbean, especially in the twin island of Trinidad & Tobago. Through his writings, he has promoted cricket in the ICC’s associate countries such as Bhutan, Hawaii, Kuwait, Maldives, Malaysia and Singapore. Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi was bestowed with the Padma Shri by the Govt. of India in 2012 for establishing, popularizing and providing credibility to Hindi cricket commentary.

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