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INDORE: Chandra Nayudu, daughter of the legendary CK Nayudu, died on Sunday after a protracted sickness. She was 88.
Her father was India’s first Take a look at captain. She had made a reputation for herself doing cricket commentary.
Chandra’s kin and former home cricketer Vijay Nayudu informed PTI that his aunty breathed her final at her residence within the metropolis’s Manoramaganj space.
He mentioned that Chandra was unwell for a very long time and couldn’t transfer attributable to sickness.
Based on cricket specialists, Chandra had finished her first commentary throughout a match between nationwide champions Bombay (now Mumbai) and MCC in Indore in 1977.
She had additionally witnessed the Golden Jubilee Take a look at Match between India and England on the iconic Lord’s in 1982 and had addressed a gathering there.
Nonetheless, she didn’t do commentary for lengthy and retired as a English professor in a authorities ladies’s faculty.
She had additionally penned a e-book titled ‘CK Nayudu: A Daughter Remembers’ on her late father, who was a distinguished cricketer.
Former BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale condoled her demise.
“Chandra was a pioneer of girls’s commentary and in addition contributed for the expansion of girls’s cricket in Madhya Pradesh,” Jagdale mentioned.
“I keep in mind that Chandra used to journey with the workforce at totally different locations and motive the gamers,” he mentioned.
Her father was India’s first Take a look at captain. She had made a reputation for herself doing cricket commentary.
Chandra’s kin and former home cricketer Vijay Nayudu informed PTI that his aunty breathed her final at her residence within the metropolis’s Manoramaganj space.
He mentioned that Chandra was unwell for a very long time and couldn’t transfer attributable to sickness.
Based on cricket specialists, Chandra had finished her first commentary throughout a match between nationwide champions Bombay (now Mumbai) and MCC in Indore in 1977.
She had additionally witnessed the Golden Jubilee Take a look at Match between India and England on the iconic Lord’s in 1982 and had addressed a gathering there.
Nonetheless, she didn’t do commentary for lengthy and retired as a English professor in a authorities ladies’s faculty.
She had additionally penned a e-book titled ‘CK Nayudu: A Daughter Remembers’ on her late father, who was a distinguished cricketer.
Former BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale condoled her demise.
“Chandra was a pioneer of girls’s commentary and in addition contributed for the expansion of girls’s cricket in Madhya Pradesh,” Jagdale mentioned.
“I keep in mind that Chandra used to journey with the workforce at totally different locations and motive the gamers,” he mentioned.
