Sadagoppan Ramesh

This article is about the cricketer. For the politician, see S. Ramesh.

In this Indian name, the name Sadagoppan is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Ramesh.
Sadagoppan Ramesh
Personal information
Full name
Sadagoppan Ramesh
Born (1975-10-13) 13 October 1975 (age 48)
Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-break
RoleBatsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 219)28 January 1999 v Pakistan
Last Test2 September 2001 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 122)30 March 1999 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI3 October 1999 v South Africa
ODI shirt no.4
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1996–2005Tamil Nadu
2005-2007Kerala
2007-2008Assam
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 19 24 116 82
Runs scored 1367 645 7,696 2,475
Batting average 37.97 28.08 43.23 32.56
100s/50s 2/8 0/6 20/38 2/18
Top score 143 82 187 105
Balls bowled 5 36 467 127
Wickets 0 1 3 10
Bowling average – 38.00 94.66 10.10
5 wickets in innings – 0 0 0
10 wickets in match – 0 0 0
Best bowling – 1/23 1/22 5/31
Catches/stumpings 18/– 3/– 85/– 24/–
Source: CricInfo, 1 November 2023

Sadagoppan Ramesh pronunciationⓘ (born 13 October 1975) is a former Indian international cricketer. He is a left-handed opening batter and an occasional right-arm off break bowler. He had represented the Indian cricket team while also representing Tamil Nadu and South zone in domestic cricket. In September 1999, he became the first Indian cricketer to take a wicket off his first ball in ODI cricket. He later became an actor post his cricketing career appearing in Tamil films.