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Full name Sadagoppan Ramesh
Born October 16, 1975, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu
Current age 32 years 327 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
St
Tests
19
37
1
1367
143
37.97
2938
46.52
2
8
159
0
18
0
ODIs
24
24
1
646
82
28.08
1092
59.15
0
6
70
1
3
0
First-class
116
190
12
7696
187
43.23
20
38
84
0
List A
82
81
5
2475
105
32.56
2
18
24
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
19
3
54
43
0
-
-
-
4.77
-
0
0
0
ODIs
24
3
36
38
1
1/23
1/23
38.00
6.33
36.0
0
0
0
First-class
116
467
284
3
1/22
94.66
3.64
155.6
0
0
List A
82
127
101
10
5/31
5/31
10.10
4.77
12.7
0
1
0
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
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
