sonny ramadhin Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
sonny ramadhin is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Sonny Ramadhin
Born
May 01, 1929, St Charles Village, Trinidad
Died
February 26, 2022 (aged 92 years old)
Also Known As
KT Ramadhin
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 43 | - | - | - |
Inn | 58 | - | - | - |
Runs | 361 | - | - | - |
Avg | 8.2 | - | - | - |
SR | 0.0 | - | - | - |
HS | 44 | - | - | - |
NO | 14 | - | - | - |
100s | 0 | - | - | - |
50s | 0 | - | - | - |
4s | 20 | - | - | - |
6s | 0 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 43 | - | - | - |
Inn | 76 | - | - | - |
Balls | 13401 | - | - | - |
Runs | 4579 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 158 | - | - | - |
BBI | 49 / 7 | - | - | - |
BBM | 152 / 11 | - | - | - |
Eco | 2.05 | - | - | - |
Avg | 28.98 | - | - | - |
5W | 10 | - | - | - |
10W | 1 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- W Hogg
- KW Hogg
- West Indies
- Lancashire
- Lincolnshire
- Trinidad
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
If we look back at Ramadhin's distinguished career, he was introduced to the game at the Canadian Mission School in Duncan Village, Trinidad. Interestingly, he didn't bowl off-spin at that time of his promising career. It was under his captain, Oscar Roach, that he developed as an off-spinner.
The defining moment of Ramadhin's career came when he played in a couple of First-Class games for Trinidad against Jamaica and picked up a bagful of wickets. Those 13 wickets that he took helped him to win a place for the tour of England in 1950.
During the tour of England, the wristy spinner turned the ball in both directions to send the batsmen back to the hut like an army of sheep. With a whippy action, in addition to the wicked dip and flight left the batsmen dumbfounded. He ended the series with 26 wickets in a mere four Tests. In fact, Ramadhin and Alf Velentine gave sleepless nights to all the English batsmen and they won the series 3-1. In particular, Ramadhin gave the Caribbean fans plenty to cheer about with his rich haul of 11 wickets at Lord's.
The Wisden wrote on Ramadhin: “No blame could be attached to the pitch… Ramadhin bowled with the guile of a veteran. He pitched a tantalizing length, bowled straight at the wicket and spun enough to beat the bat. No English batsman showed evidence of having mastered the problem of deciding which way Ramadhin would spin.”
Despite taking a five-for at the Gabba, Ramadhin struggled on the truer wickets of Australia. But, as soon as they played Australia's trans-tasman rivals, New Zealand, he again touched fabulous peaks by snaring 12 scalps at 13.83.
At the other end of the spectrum, the English batsmen continued to come up a cropper while facing up to Ramadhin in 1953-54. He landed crucial blows and snaffled 23 wickets in that series. In 1958-59, he also made his mark against good players of spin from Pakistan by prising out nine batsmen at 13.44.
However, with Lance Gibbs taking over the mantle of being the lead spinner in the epic Test series against Australia in 1960-61, it signalled the end of Ramadhin's career. Ramadhin quit First-Class cricket in 1965 and eventually settled down in England.
By Bharath Ramaraj
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Ramadhin, the first East Indian to represent West Indies, was a small neat man whose shirt-sleeves were always buttoned at the wrist. After just two first-class matches, he was called up for the famous 1950 tour of England, where he baffled the batsmen with his ability to spin the ball both ways. He bowled right-arm offbreaks and legbreaks with no discernible change of action. At Lord's, Ramadhin took 11 for 152 in 115 overs as West Indies recorded their first win there. The team relied heavily on him and his "spin twin" Alf Valentine, and the long spells both contributed probably reduced their later effectiveness. At Edgbaston in 1957 Ramadhin bowled 98 overs in the second innings - 129 in the match -- as Peter May and Colin Cowdrey played him largely with their pads. But in that first series, he was devastating. He later played in Lancashire - for the county and in the leagues - and still lives there.
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