About the author
Vimal Kumar studied journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (II MC), Delhi, and started his professional career with the International Management Group?s Trans World International (IMG-TWI). He has since worked for TV Today Network (Aaj Tak and Headlines Today) and Network18 (IBN7 and CNN-IBN) in their Hindi and English channels as a sports journalist. Besides his regular work on television as deputy sports editor for IBN7, he has also contributed to publications like Sports Illustrated, Outlook, Mid-Day, the Tribune, Child, Cricket Samrat, Cricket Today and websites like IBNlive.com, Cricketnext.com and IBNkhabar.com. Vimal has covered two cricket World Cups, in 2007 and 2011, and has reported on cricket in most of the Test-playing nations. He also presents guest lectures in IIMC and Manav Rachna University. His Twitter handle is @Vimalwa.