Website Official web site Name Ravi Chaturvedi | Role Author Awards Padma Shri | |
Occupation Sports commentator, writer Books World Cup Cricket : A Compendium | ||
RENOWNED CRICKET COMMENTARY VOICE SH. RAVI CHATURVEDI SHARES HIS EXPERIENCE WITH SHILPA BHAWANA
Ravi Chaturvedi is an Indian sports commentator and author of twenty books on Cricket, including World Cup Cricket: A Compendium, known to be first Indian sports commentator in Hindi. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2012, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
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- RENOWNED CRICKET COMMENTARY VOICE SH RAVI CHATURVEDI SHARES HIS EXPERIENCE WITH SHILPA BHAWANA
- Baarish yariyaan cover by ravi chaturvedi iss dard e dil ki sifaarish
- Biography
- References
Baarish yariyaan cover by ravi chaturvedi iss dard e dil ki sifaarish
Biography
Ravi Chaturvedi hails from Delhi and is a former faculty member of Zoology for forty years at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. In 1960, the Government of India decided to have Hindi coverage of all major sporting events and Ravi Chaturvedi joined All India Radio as its first Hindi commentator in 1962. Over the years, he has covered 102 Tests and 215 ODIs in cricket, apart from other sporting events. He has also been associated with Doordarshan, BBC and Voice of America, for sports coverage. He has assisted UNESCO and World Wide Fund for Nature in an international project Naming of Cricketing Countries based on their Endangered Animal for Fostering Peace, International Understanding and Promoting Environmental Protection.
Chaturvedi has authored 20 books on cricket of which 15 are in English and the rest in Hindi. Some of his notable works are:
He has also contributed to the book, Sojourners to Settlers, writing on the topic, Contribution of the Indo-West Indians to Caribbean Cricket. He writes editorials and columns for Hindustan Times, an English language daily from India. He is known to have friendly ties with renowned cricketers such as Sunil Gavaskar, Garry Sobers, Wesley Hall, Glenn Turner, Clive Lloyd and Alvin Kallicharan.