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Sadagoppan Ramesh

India

Full name Sadagoppan Ramesh

Born October 16, 1975, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu

Current age 34 years 37 days

Major teams India, Tamil Nadu

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	19	37	1	1367	143	37.97	2938	46.52	2	8	159	0	18
ODIs	24	24	1	646	82	28.08	1092	59.15	0	6	70	1	3
First-class	116	190	12	7696	187	43.23			20	38			85
List A	82	81	5	2475	105	32.56			2	18			24

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	19	3	54	43	0	-	-	-	4.77	-	0	0
ODIs	24	3	36	38	1	1/23	1/23	38.00	6.33	36.0	0	0
First-class	116		467	284	3	1/22		94.66	3.64	155.6		0
List A	82		127	101	10	5/31	5/31	10.10	4.77	12.7	0	1

Career statistics

Test debut	India v Pakistan at Chennai, Jan 28-31, 1999 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (SSC), Aug 29-Sep 2, 2001 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v Sri Lanka at Pune, Mar 30, 1999 scorecard
Last ODI	India v South Africa at Nairobi (Gym), Oct 3, 1999 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	1995/96
Last First-class	Assam v Tripura at Guwahati, Dec 9-12, 2007 scorecard
List A debut	1995/96
Last List A	Assam v Bengal at Guwahati, Feb 28, 2008 scorecard

Profile

Sadagoppan Ramesh made the grade after coming through the ranks. A string of notable performances with the India A team, culminating in a brilliant century against West Indies A pitch forked him into the national senior side. India A coach K Srikkanth strongly advocated his inclusion and the selectors, searching around for batsmen, decided to give the left-hand opener from Tamil Nadu the big break in his hometown of Chennai against Pakistan in 1999. Displaying two qualities that should be uppermost in any opening batsman - courage and big match temperament - Ramesh was an instant success. He played the pace of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akthar and the spin of Saqlain Mushtaq and Mushtaq Ahmed with equal felicity, ran up a series of consistent scores including a couple of hundreds and suddenly India had unearthed a world class opening batsman.

But even as he ran up a Test average of 50 plus in his first half-a-dozen Tests, there were the cynics who pointed out to his faulty footwork and awry technique. Then there were the detractors who said he would never get runs away from the subcontinent and he would come up a cropper against the Australian pace bowlers on the faster and bouncier pitches. Taking up the challenge, Ramesh proved that he could get runs in any conditions and while he did not exactly set the Yarra river on fire, he did enough to prove his detractors wrong. But he struggled to convert good starts into big scores, and after a reasonable series in Sri Lanka in 2001-02, where he passed 30 five times in six innings but made only one fifty, he was discarded.
Partab Ramchand

Notes

An Interview with Sadagopan Ramesh