his passion for sports makes him pool in his resources and time to encourage sportspersons c k muralidharan senior accountant in bharath earth movers ltd beml mysore has been promoting sports in the city for the past two decades muralidharan 50 has taken up sports as a hobby to provide better coaching facilities for budding chess players he and mysore district chess association teamed up to open professional chess academy being a good cricketer muralidharan had represented bangalore university where he did bcom and later went on to land a job under sports quota muralidharan who was in bangalore got transferred to mysore in 1993 ever since he has been contributing to the cause of sports by encouraging promising sportspersons muralidharan is also the selection committee chairman for junior boys u14 and u16 mysore zone cricket team in spite of being a cricketer i want other sports to get their due said muralidharan who has now graduated from being a spectator of sporting events to sports writer to keep sportspersons updated about the latest in the field muralidharan launched a website those who are away from mysore can also know whats happening in the city by visiting the webpage muralidharan said during cricket and football world cup with help from the respective associations he launched the website to give updates on the games he also worked on five projects with awardwinning photographer tomas gudzowaty and coordinated his projects in india muralidharan a native of coimbatore has been awarded by various associations in the days to come we will go to rural places and identify the talent to provide them coaching the talent is not limited to urbanites he said adding that rural areas have abundance talent he also helps the needy sportspersons who are deprived of basic facilities my parents c s krishnan and savithri krishnan are my inspiration said muralidharan who is married to uma their son c m kiran is pursuing an engineering course while daughter c m swetha is in std v