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Full name Woorkeri Venkat Raman
Born May 23, 1965, Madras (now Chennai)
Current age 43 years 144 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
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
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. (Anand Vasu, 2007)
