This BCCI pitch specialist is also a factory owner, MBA, ex-athlete
HE IS a businessman who runs a textile factory that employs around 1,000 people in Tiruppur and exports to most of Europe, the Oceania region and North America. A former Tamil Nadu athlete in the 110m hurdles at national championships, he also holds an MBA and an MS in Psychology.
But then, that’s not really why V Ramesh Kumar is under the spotlight in the cricket circuit.
The 44-year-old is the head curator of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), the man in charge of the pitch at the iconic M A Chidambaram stadium in Chennai — and now, all set to oversee preparations for the upcoming ODI against Australia and the IPL.
It’s an interesting journey that’s taken more than a decade.
Kumar says it started sometime around 2010, when he was unable to find a curator to make a turf pitch ...