Lokapally joined the newspaper Patriot in 1981, with his first article about the cricketer Bishan Singh Bedi.
The Hindu gave me assignments in India as well as overseas and it was wonderful to write about cricket from distant venues of the world.
[2] He subsequently wrote Driven: The Virat Kohli Story, released by India's Bloomsbury Publishing on 1 October 2016.
In a review carried by Daily News and Analysis, the critic G. Krishnan said that the book was written in "a simple manner with interviews from those who have seen Kohli closely from his younger days" and Vedam Jaishankar from Firstpost called it "memorable".
[7][8] His next two books are World Cup Warriors: The Boys in Blue (2019) and Speed Merchants: The Story of Indian Pace Bowling 1886 to 2019 (2020).