Venkat Sunderam

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Venkat Sunderam
Personal information
Full nameVenkat N Sunderam
BattingLeft-handed
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1970/71–1980/81 Delhi
1973/74 Tamil Nadu
Career statistics
Competition FC List A
Matches8114
Runs scored3,855351
Batting average 32.1227.00
100s/50s5/221/0
Top score177102*
Balls bowled1336
Wickets 20
Bowling average 59.00
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match0n/a
Best bowling1/0
Catches/stumpings 59/03/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 January 2016

Venkat Sunderam is an Indian former first-class cricketer who played for Delhi and Tamil Nadu. After his playing career, he became a selector for Delhi and pitch committee chairman for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

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Career

Sunderam was a left-handed opening batsman who played for Delhi between the 1970/71 and 1980/81 seasons and one season for Tamil Nadu in 1973/74. He was the leading run-getter of the 1977–78 Ranji Trophy with 608 runs at an average of 86.85 including three centuries. [1] His personal best score of 177 came in the 1977–78 Irani Cup for Rest of India against Bombay. [2] He was part of the Delhi team in its back-to-back Ranji wins in 1978/79 and 1979/80. His last first class match was for Delhi in the 1980–81 Irani Cup against Rest of India which Delhi won on first innings lead. [3]

Sunderam was a team manager for India in the 1990s. [4] [5] He became a member of the ten-member selection committee of Delhi in 2002 [6] and a member of the five-member Delhi selection panel in 2005. [7] He was also the pitch committee chairman for BCCI. [8] He was Delhi District Cricket Association's curator, a position he quit in 2014. [9] As of December 2015, he is the executive secretary of the Shahid Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Greater Noida. [10]

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