Favourite cricket team
India
Favourite cricket format
Test cricket
Favourite cricket player
AB de Villiers
Favourite cricket ground
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Favourite sporting memory
India winning the 2011 ODI World Cup
Favourite sports movie
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Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya is a cricket journalist based in India who takes a keen interest in stories that unfold on and off the field. His expertise lies in news writing, features and profiles, interviews, stats, and numbers-driven stories. He has also worked as a podcaster and talk show host on cricket-related shows on YouTube and Spotify.
Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya
He has covered Indian domestic cricket and the IPL, ICC Cricket World Cups, and bilateral tournaments, including the first-ever pink-ball Test match in India.
He worked for a decade as a sports and features journalist with Zee Media, Deccan Chronicle Holdings, The Asian Age, Mid-Day, and Sportstar from The Hindu Group before turning to freelance from 2022. Since then, he has written for Olympics.com, The Quint, The Telegraph, The New Indian Express, and moneycontrol.com from The Network18 Group.
When not working, he can be found at the coolest Rock and Roll gigs grooving to some live music.