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Full name Sonny Ramadhin
Born May 1, 1929, St Charles Village, Trinidad
Current age 79 years 16 days
Major teams West Indies,Lancashire,Lincolnshire,Trinidad
Also known as KT Ramadhin
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Relations Son-in-law - W Hogg,Grandson - KW Hogg
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
43
58
14
361
44
8.20
0
0
0
9
0
First-class
184
191
65
1092
44
8.66
0
0
38
0
List A
5
1
0
0
0
0.00
0
0
0
0
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
43
76
13939
4579
158
7/49
11/152
28.98
1.97
88.2
6
10
1
First-class
184
44937
15345
758
8/15
20.24
2.04
59.2
51
15
List A
5
297
190
4
2/51
2/51
47.50
3.83
74.2
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v West Indies at Manchester, Jun 8-12, 1950 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v West Indies at Melbourne, Dec 30, 1960 - Jan 3, 1961 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1949/50 - 1965
List A span
1964 - 1971
Profile
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.
Vaneisa Baksh
Ramadhin was shown as KT Ramadhin when he came to England in 1950. He explains why. "The kids at school had called me Sonny so I adopted that. But when I got to England they insisted that nobody could go through life without initials. The next time I picked up the paper I'd become K T Ramadhin. I never did find out what my new English names were supposed to be."
