Vishnu and Aachal: The Dynamic Duo of LiveMint Sports
PN Vishnu has spent nearly a decade living on the sports desk clock, where days are measured not in hours but in kick-offs, tosses and full-time whistles.
A core member of the LiveMint Sports team, he covers cricket, football and other major events with the eye of someone who has followed them obsessively for more than 10 years. The range is wide, but his heart is clear: cricket and football sit at the centre of his sporting universe.
His loyalties are no secret either. In the Indian Premier League, he stands firmly with Royal Challengers Bengaluru. In English football, it’s Manchester United. Those allegiances colour nothing in his copy, but they do explain the sharp understanding of fan emotion that runs through his work.
Vishnu’s formal training came at the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) in Chennai, where he completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism in 2017. The classrooms and news labs there laid the foundation. The real education, though, arrived in the years that followed.
He built his career across some of India’s better-known newsrooms, including Deccan Chronicle and Firstpost, learning how to handle everything from late-breaking results to long-form features. In 2025, he spent six months with CricXtasy, sharpening his digital instincts in a pure-play sports environment, before joining LiveMint in February 2026.
His passport in journalism terms is stamped with marquee events. He has reported extensively on the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the Indian Super League (ISL), tracking seasons from opening night to trophy lifts. Those assignments have also opened doors to the game’s inner circle, including interactions with India cricketers Yuzvendra Chahal and Dhruv Jurel.
Away from stadiums and scorecards, Vishnu turns to books, new music and long stretches of television to switch off from the constant hum of live sport. The break never lasts long. There is always another match, another story, another pressure moment to capture.
Aachal Maniyar
If Vishnu brings the long view of a decade in digital sport, Aachal Maniyar supplies the sharp edge of a newsroom operator who has seen almost every format and platform from the inside.
A Senior Content Producer at LiveMint, she leads coverage of US sports, tracking major leagues, big-ticket events and the athletes who drive them. Her brief doesn’t stop there. Cricket and global sport sit firmly in her portfolio, and she moves between them with ease.
Aachal’s journalism career spans more than five years across some of the country’s most recognisable networks: Thomson Reuters, India TV, BTVI, ET NOW and CNBC TV18. She has worked breaking news shifts, guided live match coverage, written features, scripted video packages and even anchored on air. That mix has shaped a style built for real time, without losing depth.
Her work stretches from explainers and athlete profiles to emotionally charged fan stories and data-backed match analysis. The subjects range widely, but the through-line is clear: context, clarity and a refusal to let sport be reduced to just numbers on a scoreboard.
She has produced exclusive interviews with names as varied as India cricketer Dhruv Jurel, Indian women’s hockey captain Savita Punia and industrialist Ratan Tata, along with a host of emerging and established athletes. Each conversation adds another layer to her understanding of how pressure, ambition and opportunity collide in modern sport.
Armed with a Master’s degree in Journalism from Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication in Pune, Aachal works to a simple principle: accuracy first, always. From there, she looks for the human angle — the decision in the dressing room, the doubt before a big shot, the moment that changes a career.
Between them, Vishnu and Aachal bring two complementary lenses to LiveMint Sport: one rooted in years of watching and reporting India’s biggest leagues from the ground up, the other honed in fast-paced, multi-platform newsrooms with a global brief. The result is coverage that doesn’t stop at the final score, but digs into the people, choices and turning points that define the games.
