Sharda Ugra is an Indian sports journalist and author. She has worked for Mid-Day, The Hindu, India Today, and ESPNcricinfo, and is known for her coverage of cricket. She co-wrote John Wright's Indian Summers (2007) and Yuvraj Singh's The Test of My Life (2013), and has conducted investigative reporting on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Career
editIn the late 1980s, Ugra and two of her friends interviewed cricketers such as Imran Khan and Viv Richards, which got published in a local Bombay newspaper.[1][2] She landed a position at Mid-Day in 1989 based in Bombay.[2][3] Ugra would later work for The Hindu, India Today and ESPNcricinfo.[3] She cowrote John Wright's Indian Summers (2007) and Yuvraj Singh's The Test of My Life (2013).[3]
Ugra published an investigative work on the corruption and underpayment of domestic cricketers by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2023.[3]
In 2013, Ugra served as a fellow of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne, where she researched the role of ethnic minority cricket in England and Australia.[3]
References
edit- ↑ Hussain, Sara (20 September 2019). "Chai with Sachin Tendulkar, lunch with Harbhajan: sports journalist Sharda Ugra's career is enviable". Tweak India. Retrieved 22 May 2026.
- 1 2 "Transcript: Couch Talk with Sharda Ugra". The Cricket Couch. Retrieved 22 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "That's just not cricket: sports journalism that challenges the status quo". Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Retrieved 22 May 2026.
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