Venkat Sunderam

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).

Venkat Sunderam
Personal information
Full name
Venkat N Sunderam
BattingLeft-handed
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1970/71–1980/81Delhi
1973/74Tamil Nadu
Career statistics
Competition FC List A
Matches 81 14
Runs scored 3,855 351
Batting average 32.12 27.00
100s/50s 5/22 1/0
Top score 177 102*
Balls bowled 133 6
Wickets 2 0
Bowling average 59.00 –
5 wickets in innings 0 –
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/0 –
Catches/stumpings 59/0 3/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 January 2016

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]

References
  1. "Batting and Fielding in Ranji Trophy 1977/78 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  2. "Bombay v Rest of India in 1977/78". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  3. "Delhi v Rest of India in 1980/81". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  4. "Dravid, Srinath out, Khoda in". Rediff. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  5. "Fourth straight washout!". Rediff. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  6. "Chetan Chauhan to head DDCA senior selection panel". The Tribune, Chandigarh. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  7. "Venkat Sunderam, Vivek Razdan the new selectors". The Hindu. 31 August 2005. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  8. "Chief pitch official in hospital". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  9. "Venkat Sundaram steps down as DDCA curator". The Indian Express. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  10. "India hosts Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe international cricket series". Business Standard. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
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