Sadagoppan Ramesh

Sadagoppan Ramesh

Personal information
Full name	Sadagoppan Ramesh
Born	(1975-10-16) 16 October 1975 Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm offbreak
International information
National side	India
Test debut (cap 219)	28 January 1999 v Pakistan
Last Test	2 September 2001 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 122)	30 March 1999 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	3 October 1999 v South Africa
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs Matches 19 24 Runs scored 1367 646 Batting average 37.97 28.08 100s/50s 2/8 -/6 Top score 143 82 Balls bowled 54 36 Wickets - 1 Bowling average - 38.00 5 wickets in innings - - 10 wickets in match - n/a Best bowling - 1/23 Catches/stumpings 18/- 3/-
Source: [1], 4 February 2006

In this Indian name, the name Sadagoppan is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Ramesh.

Sadagoppan Ramesh (born 16 October 1975) is an Indian film actor and former cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. Ramesh is the first Indian cricketer to take a wicket off his first ball in ODI cricket, the victim being Nixon McLean of the West Indies.

Cricket career

Despite having a batting average of over 50 in his first six tests and proving that he could easily play against top bowlers, he did not convert his starts into big scores. He was discarded from the team after India's tour of Sri Lanka when Ramesh passed 30 runs in 5 out of the 6 innings but only one innings was converted to a 50. Though he originally played for Tamil Nadu, he played domestic cricket for Kerala during 2005–06, 2006–07 seasons and Assam in the 2007–08 season.

Film career

He has acted in a Tamil movie, Santosh Subramaniam, released in April 2008. He also played a lead actor for the first time in the movie Potta Potti - 50/50.

Personal life

Sadgopan Ramesh is married to Aparna in 2002. They have a daughter and son.