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

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).

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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