woorkeri raman Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
woorkeri raman is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Woorkeri Venkat Raman
Born
May 23, 1965, Madras (now Chennai)
Age
58 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 11 | 27 | - | - |
Inn | 19 | 27 | - | - |
Runs | 448 | 617 | - | - |
Avg | 24.89 | 23.73 | - | - |
SR | 37.87 | 55.64 | - | - |
HS | 96 | 114 | - | - |
NO | 1 | 1 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 1 | - | - |
50s | 4 | 3 | - | - |
4s | 55 | 47 | - | - |
6s | 1 | 5 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 11 | 27 | - | - |
Inn | 7 | 7 | - | - |
Balls | 348 | 162 | - | - |
Runs | 129 | 170 | - | - |
Wkt | 2 | 2 | - | - |
BBI | 7 / 1 | 23 / 1 | - | - |
BBM | 7 / 1 | 23 / 1 | - | - |
Eco | 2.22 | 6.3 | - | - |
Avg | 64.5 | 85.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Tamil Nadu
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
He was a prolific run-scorer for Tamil Nadu, amassing 7939 first-class runs. His prime came in the 1988-89 season when he notched up 1018 runs - a then record, which has been surpassed by only 15 other batsmen so far. In that season, Raman stroked up two double tons and a triple century.
Raman's start to international cricket was auspicious, top-scoring with 83 and picking up a wicket in his first over against West Indies in front of his home crowd in Chennai. In 1992, he became the first Indian to raise an ODI century in South Africa.
Even as his international career was short-lived, Raman has been in the Indian coaching circuit for a long time, serving as the coach of Tamil Nadu (2005-2007), Bengal (2001-02, 2010-13), as the assistant coach with Kings XI Punjab (2013) and as the batting consultant of Kolkata Knight Riders (2014). Since 2015, he has been working as the batting consultant at the National Cricket Academy. In this period, he has also played the role of a coach for various India A and Duleep Trophy and under-19 teams.
In December 2018, Raman was appointed as the coach of the Indian women's team, taking over the role from Ramesh Powar.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Standing unusually tall at the crease, with a left-hander's penchant for off-side play, Woorkeri Raman was a batsman who should have ended with more generous returns than 11 Tests and 27 ODIs. He began as a left-arm spinner whose strength was his ability to out-think batsman rather than impart outrageous spin or deliver an indecipherable arm-ball; he picked up a wicket in his first over in Test cricket, albeit that of Courtney Walsh. But Raman proved to be a batsman of considerable skill. He hit a purple patch in 1988-89, scoring 313 for Tamil Nadu against Goa, and for good measure notched up two more double-centuries, ending the season with 1018 runs, surpassing Rusi Modi's 44-year-old record for most runs in a season.
As with many other batsmen of his time Raman was forced to open the innings in order to play for India, and did so with some success. His second-innings 83 on Test debut, batting at No. 3, was overshadowed by Narendra Hirwani's feat of picking up the best bowling figures of 16-136 on debut. Raman's international career never really got going, and when Vinod Kambli was favoured over him during England's tour of India in 1993 the writing was on the wall. Kambli cashed in, Raman's career remained a question of what might have been. The record will show, however, that he scored 96 - his highest Test score - against New Zealand at home in 1990, went to Sri Lanka in 1993 and did not take part in a single first-class game, and became the first Indian to score a hundred against the South Africans, in an ODI at Centurion Park in the Friendship Tour of 1992-93.
Raman, who has equipped himself with the highest qualifications to coach, is now the coach of the Tamil Nadu team and continues to be one of the shrewdest thinkers of the game about.
(Anand Vasu, 2007)