gundappa viswanath Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
gundappa viswanath is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Gundappa Rangnath Viswanath
Born
February 12, 1949, Bhadravati, Mysore
Age
74 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 91 | 25 | - | - |
Inn | 155 | 23 | - | - |
Runs | 6080 | 439 | - | - |
Avg | 41.93 | 19.95 | - | - |
SR | 75.9 | 52.89 | - | - |
HS | 222 | 75 | - | - |
NO | 10 | 1 | - | - |
100s | 14 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 35 | 2 | - | - |
4s | 616 | 33 | - | - |
6s | 6 | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 91 | 25 | - | - |
Inn | 7 | - | - | - |
Balls | 70 | - | - | - |
Runs | 46 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 1 | - | - | - |
BBI | 11 / 1 | - | - | - |
BBM | 11 / 1 | - | - | - |
Eco | 3.94 | - | - | - |
Avg | 46.0 | - | - | - |
5W | 0 | - | - | - |
10W | 0 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- SM Gavaskar
- India
- Karnataka
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Vishy, as he was popularly known, made his debut in 1969 against Australia. In a riveting Test match held at Green Park Kanpur, he got out on nought in the first innings but came back strongly in the second to score his maiden century, a 137, which held together the batting lineup after a middle order collapse. It can be safely said that if not for his knock, India would have lost the Test. This became a characteristic of Vishy's knocks over his career. Whenever the situation demanded it, he responded. Truth be told, he was as important to the side as Gavaskar was, a fact the Gavaskar himself has admitted. Another one of his most remembered knocks came against West Indies in Madras in 1974-75. He scored an unbeaten 97 which took India to victory which was ranked the second best non-century by Wisden.
Looking back, his best knocks came against rampaging sides on difficult wickets. That can be corroborated by the fact that he had a batting average of more than 50 against Australia and West Indies, sides which had a fearsome fast bowling lineup in the 70s. He once made 2 half centuries in the each innings of a match against New Zealand in Christchurch on a green top. He scored a crucial 112 in the historical Port-of-Spain Test match when India chased down 406 in the 4th innings. Vishy captained the side in just two matches with India losing one and drawing one. The former Test was the Golden Jubilee Test against England and was made memorable for an incident involving Vishwanath and Bob Taylor. Taylor was recalled to the crease by the Indian captain after the umpire had given him out. This remained the only umpire's decision that Vishwanath ever disputed and rather than bringing him censure, he was much respected for this. To this date, he is remembered for his sense of fair-play.
After retiring from International cricket, he served as an ICC Match Referee from 1999 to 2004.
He also had a stint as the chairman of selectors and the manager of the Indian team. Even today, the first person who comes to any cricket lover's mind on watching a wristy shot played by a batsman is certainly G Vishwanath.
Fact: G Vishwanath was awarded the Col. C K Naidu Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 by BCCI, one of the most prestigious awards in Indian cricket.
By Siddharth Prabhakar
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Gundappa Viswanath was a true artist with the willow - his strokeplay,
particularly the late-cut executed with lumberjack-strong wrists, was
nothing less than divine. He was equally adept against pace and spin -
waiting on the ball against the fastmen and using twinkling footwork against the spinners - and he came good when it truly mattered. Though statistics don't convey it, Vishy was every bit as crucial as Sunil Gavaskar to the Indian team of the 1970s. Right from his century on debut in 1969-70, he performed better when the chips were down than any other Indian batsman. Especially memorable was an unbeaten, matchwinning 97 against a rampaging Andy Roberts at Madras in 1974-75. Viswanath often excelled on pitches others found difficult - witness his matchwinning 124 out of 255 on another fiery, bouncy Madras wicket against West Indies in 1978-79, and innings of 83 and 79 against New Zealand on a Christchurch greentop in 1975-76. He played the game in its true spirit: a century had little value to him if it didn¹t contribute to the team cause and he disputed an umpire¹s decision only
once, recalling Bob Taylor in the Golden Jubilee match against England in 1979-80. It cost him the Test, one of only two where he led India, but to Vishy, it mattered more that the game should be played fair.
H Natarajan