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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Venkatraman Ramnarayan
| image =
| caption =
| country = India
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|11|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Madras]], India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm off-spin
| family = [[Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan]] (nephew), V. Sivaramakrishan (brother)
| club1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| year1 = 1975–1979
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches1 = 25
| runs1 = 71
| bat avg1 = 4.17
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 9
| deliveries1 = 5476
| wickets1 = 96
| bowl avg1 = 23.23
| fivefor1 = 4
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 7/68
| catches/stumpings1= 15/–
| column2 = [[List A cricket|List A]]
| matches2 = 2
| runs2 = –
| bat avg2 = –
| 100s/50s2 = –
| top score2 = –
| deliveries2 = 144
| wickets2 = 7
| bowl avg2 = 11.00
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = n/a
| best bowling2 = 4/35
| catches/stumpings2= 2/–
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/33449.html ESPNcricinfo
| date = 11 December
| year = 2015
}}

{{Indian name|Ramnarayan|Venkatraman}}

'''Venkatraman Ramnarayan''' (born 8 November 1947, in [[Chennai|Madras]]) is a former Indian [[first-class cricket]]er and current journalist, editor, translator and teacher.

==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.<ref>{{cite news| work=Cricinfo | first=Sriram |last=Veera |access-date=11 December 2015| title=One that drifted away |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/indiandomestic/content/story/321698.html
|date=22 November 2007}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/139/139993.html| title = Hyderabad Cricket Association XI v JK Sports XI 1975-76| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date = 11 December 2015}}</ref> A week later he made his first-class debut for [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]] against [[Kerala cricket team|Kerala]] in the [[Ranji Trophy]], taking 6 for 33 in the first innings.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/35/35643.html| title = Kerala v Hyderabad 1975-76| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date = 11 December 2015}}</ref> A further week later, in the first innings against [[Andhra cricket team|Andhra]], he took 6 for 41.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/35/35659.html| title = Hyderabad v Andhra 1975-76| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date = 11 December 2015}}</ref> In the quarter-final against [[Mumbai cricket team|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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/35/35835.html| title = Bombay v Hyderabad 1975-76| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date = 11 December 2015}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/35/35702/f_Bowling_by_Season.html| title = First-class bowling in each season by Venkatraman Ramnarayan| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date = 11 December 2015}}</ref> He also played for [[South Zone cricket team|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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/40/40784.html| title = Central Zone v South Zone 1980-81| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date = 11 December 2015}}</ref>

==Journalism career==
Ramnarayan is a regular columnist for ''[[Cricinfo]]'', the editor of ''[[Sruti (magazine)|Sruti]]'', a monthly performing arts magazine, and a teacher at the [[Asian College of Journalism, Chennai]].<ref>{{cite news| work=Cricinfo | first=Sharda |last=Ugra |access-date=11 December 2015| title= First-class tales |url= http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/869455.html
|date=9 May 2015}}</ref>

In 2015 he published a memoir of his first-class cricket career, ''Third Man: Recollections from a Life in Cricket''.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://westlandbooks.in/product/third-man-recollections-life-in-cricket-9789384030827/ | title = Third Man: Recollections from a Life in Cricket | publisher = Westland| access-date = 11 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="Subramanian">{{cite web | url=http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/929945/unknown-cricketers | title=Unknown cricketers | publisher=[[ESPN Cricinfo]] | work=[[The Cricket Monthly]] | date=November 2015 | access-date=6 May 2016 | author=Samanth Subramanian | author-link=Samanth Subramanian }}</ref> He writes under the name "V. Ramnarayan".

He has also translated books from [[Tamil language|Tamil]] into English.

==Books by V. Ramnarayan==
* ''Mosquitos and Other Jolly Rovers: The Story of Tamil Nadu Cricket'' (2002)
* ''[[R.K. Swamy]], His Life and Times: From Humble Village Origins to the Top Rungs of a Contemporary Profession'' (2007)
* ''Third Man: Recollections from a Life in Cricket'' (2015)

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{ESPNcricinfo|id=33449}}
* {{cricketarchive|id=35702}}
* [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/author.html?author=537 V. Ramnarayan's articles for Cricinfo]
* [http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/819175.html "Whatever happened to sportsmanship?" by V. Ramnarayan]
* {{YouTube|0Ddi7Tym7wA|Interview with Venkatraman Ramnarayan in 2012}}
* {{YouTube|5zUIkaYfTPA|"Understanding Chennai fans and V. Ramnarayan"}}

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[[Category:Cricketers from Chennai]]
[[Category:Indian cricketers]]
[[Category:Hyderabad cricketers]]
[[Category:South Zone cricketers]]
[[Category:Savitribai Phule Pune University alumni]]
[[Category:Cricket historians and writers]]
[[Category:Indian magazine editors]]
[[Category:Indian cricket commentators]]
[[Category:Journalists from Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Indian sportswriters]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian biographers]]

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