Woorkeri Raman

Full name Woorkeri Venkat Raman

Born May 23, 1965, Madras (now Chennai)

Current age 45 years 16 days

Major teams India, Tamil Nadu

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	11	19	1	448	96	24.88	1183	37.86	0	4	55	1	6	0
ODIs	27	27	1	617	114	23.73	1109	55.63	1	3	47	5	2	0
First-class	132	193	19	7939	313	45.62			19	36			91	0
List A	87	87	5	2892	117*	35.26			4	18			22	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	11	7	348	129	2	1/7	1/7	64.50	2.22	174.0	0	0	0
ODIs	27	7	162	170	2	1/23	1/23	85.00	6.29	81.0	0	0	0
First-class	132		6460	3176	85	6/29		37.36	2.94	76.0		4	1
List A	87		707	605	18	2/12	2/12	33.61	5.13	39.2	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	India v West Indies at Chennai, Jan 11-15, 1988 scorecard
Last Test	South Africa v India at Cape Town, Jan 2-6, 1997 scorecard
Test statistics	- Statsguru Test analysis - Player analysis menu/filter Test match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Bowling match list Best innings bowling Best match bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics
ODI debut	India v West Indies at Kolkata, Jan 2, 1988 scorecard
Last ODI	India v South Africa at Mumbai, Dec 14, 1996 scorecard
ODI statistics	- Statsguru ODI analysis - Player analysis menu/filter ODI match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Best innings bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics
First-class span	1982/83 - 1998/99
List A span	1986/87 - 1998/99

Profile

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.

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)