Famous Cricketers No 73 - Sonny Ramadhin

Jaipur 38 12 54 2 1-21 27.00 - - Jamshedpur 48 17 127 5 4-51 25.40 - - Jorhat 26 11 46 3 2-0 15.33 - - Jubalpur 11 4 12 0 - - - - Kanpur 86.1 26 192 9 5-102 21.33 1 - Lucknow 24 4 46 2 2-46 23.00 - - Madras 45 13 92 4 2-16 23.00 - - Nagpur 25 9 39 2 1-16 19.50 - - New Delhi 136.4 50 256 5 4-44 51.20 - - Poona 21 9 39 1 1-26 39.00 - - Rajkot 24.5 7 47 7 4-26 6.71 - - Total 1389 463 2899 121 6-23 22.12 4 1 Australia Adelaide 67 8 210 3 1-49 70.00 - - Brisbane 96 18 282 8 5-90 35.25 1 - Hobart 29 13 45 3 3-21 15.00 - - Melbourne 111.7 27 333 19 5-37 17.52 2 1 Perth 56.4 10 150 6 3-28 25.00 - - Sydney 134.3 17 539 7 5-145 77.00 1 - Total 494.6 93 1559 46 5-37 33.89 4 1 New Zealand Auckland 186 75 380 19 5-21 20.00 1 - Christchurch 195 70 398 20 5-46 19.90 1 - Dunedin 100.4 46 150 16 6-23 9.37 1 - Wanganui 56.2 23 116 6 4-42 19.33 - - Wellington 134.2 55 256 12 4-51 21.33 - - Total 672.2 269 1300 73 6-23 17.82 3 - Pakistan Bahawalpur 22 12 26 3 3-26 8.66 - - Dacca 38.3 15 55 5 3-45 11.00 - - Karachi 55.5 23 125 5 3-71 25.00 - - Lahore 32 13 66 4 4-25 16.50 - - Peshawar 36 9 75 5 3-18 15.00 - - Rawalpindi 31 7 70 3 2-41 23.33 - - Total 216 79 417 25 4-25 16.68 - - Rhodesia Nkana 28 4 59 1 1-59 59.00 - - Salisbury 28.4 9 92 4 3-52 23.00 - - Total 56.4 13 151 5 3-52 30.20 - - Ceylon Colombo 75.4 20 183 10 4-48 18.30 - - Grand Total (6 ball) 6808 2412 } 15345 758 8-15 20.24 51 15 (8 ball) 494.6 93 Batting - Modes of Dismissal (a) First-Class Ct B LBW RO St HW NO Total 53 56 5 5 7 0 65 191 It is surprising that Ramadhin, in 191 first-class innings, never once trod on his own wicket. Equally astonishing is the very low ratio (2.61%) of his lbw dismissals. A stubborn tail-ender, he remained unbeaten in more than a third of all of his innings (34.03%), which is an exceptionally high ratio. The bowlers against whom Ramadhin proved most vulnerable were Subhash Gupte and Fred Trueman who took his wicket 8 times and 5 times respectively. Richie Benaud, Jim Laker and Brian Statham dismissed Ramadhin 4 times each, while Bill Johnston, Tony Lock, Derek Morgan and Dattu Phadkar 49