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About S. K. Gurunathan
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- Gurunathan (1 August 1908 – 5 May 1966) was a sports journalist and one of the pioneers of cricket statistics in India. Gurunathan started his journalistic career in the advertisement section of The Hindu in 1928.
- He became a reporter in 1938 and from 1958 till his death, was the sports editor.
- He founded the Madras Sports Annual which covered local cricket and other sports in the 1940s.
- While at The Hindu, he started the magazine Sport and Pastime which ran for about twenty years and ceased publication due to labour troubles soon after his death.
- Gurunathan was the first Honorary Cricket Statistician for the Board of Control for Cricket in India, serving in that post from 1949-50 till his death. Gurunathan founded the annual Indian Cricket in 1946 on the same lines as the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and remained its editor till his death.
- He also regularly contributed to the Indian section of Wisden.
- He covered more than 50 Test matches including the Indian tours of Australia in 1947-48, England in 1952 and Pakistan in 1954-55, and reported the 1961-62 MCC tour of India for The Times.
- He authored the books 12 years of Ranji Trophy and three volumes of Story of the Tests.
- Gurunathan became the Founder-President of the Madras Sports Writers Club in 1963-64. He was a stylish wicket keeper in his youth and represented the Indians in the Madras Presidency matches.
- In the Madras League matches, he represented Sundar C.C.
- He died a few months before he was due to retire from The Hindu.
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