Chandra Nayudu

Chandra Nayudu (1933 – 4 April 2021) was an Indian cricket commentator, cricketer, professor, and author. She was India's first female cricket commentator, as well as one of India's earliest woman cricketers. Her father, C. K. Nayudu, was a well-known cricketer and the captain of India's first Test cricket team. She was the youngest of the three daughters of C. K. Nayudu from his first wife. Her uncle C. S. Nayudu also played for India, while her nephew Vijay Nayudu was a first-class cricketer.

Career Nayudu graduated with a degree in English, and taught English at a government college in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. She was India's first female cricket commentator. She was also a commentator during the English team's tour of India in 1979-1980 for India's public broadcaster, All India Radio, and later recorded her experiences in cricket commentary for an interview with cricket historian David Rayvern Allen, archived with Lord's. According to Nayudu, she was the first female international cricket commentator, preceding an Australian woman commentator. In 1982, she was invited to the Golden Jubilee Test Match between India and England.

She was a life member of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association, and undertook several efforts to promote women's cricket in the region, including establishing an inter-university tournament. Her last posting was as a principal in early 1990 at the Government Girls PG College in Indore. In 1995, she published a memoir of her father titled C.K. Nayudu: A Daughter Remembers.

Death Nayudu lived at Manorama Ganj in Indore, close to the Holkar Stadium, where her father frequently played. She died in Indore on 4 April 2021 at the age of 88.

Publications Chandra K. Nayudu, C.K. Nayudu: A Daughter Remembers (New Delhi, Rupa Publications 1995),