Wriddhiman Saha Biography and Photos a Indian Cricketer
Full name Wriddhiman Prasanta Saha
Born 24 October 1984 (age 26)
Saktigarh, Siliguri, India
Nickname Papali, Pops
Batting style Right-handed
Role Wicket-keeper
Domestic team information
Years Team
2007– Bengal cricket team
2008-2010 Kolkata Knight Riders
2011– Chennai Super Kings
2008 India A
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA T20
Matches 1 25 36 25
Runs scored 36 1292 987 419
Batting average 18.00 34.91 49.35 26.18
100s/50s 0/0 3/5 1/5 0/2
Top score 36 159 102* 71
Catches/stumpings 0/0 65/3 35/7 1/3
Wriddhiman Prasanta Saha (born 24 October 1984) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and specialist wicket-keeper. Saha has played Test cricket for India and represents Bengal and the Chennai Super Kings in Indian domestic cricket.
Bengal
Saha made it through the ranks of the youth system, playing for the Under-19s and the Under-22s team before stepping up to first-class cricket. Saha made his one-day debut in the Ranji Trophy competition of 2006/07, against Assam. While he did not get the chance to perform with the bat during this game, he scored a duck in his debut innings in the following match. As he was nearing the end of his brief run in the Ranji Trophy, he played three one-day games for the East Zone in the Deodhar Trophy.
Saha made his first-class debut in the 2007-08 Ranji Trophy, against Hyderabad he scored 111 not out, becoming the 15th Bengal player to score a hundred on Ranji debut. Saha also made the East Zone team in the Duleep Trophy in the 2007-08 season.
Indian Premier League (IPL)
Saha was signed by the Kolkata Knight Riders for the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League. The Knight Riders squad contained two internationally-capped wicket-keepers in Brendon McCullum and Tatenda Taibu, but despite this, Saha made twelve appearances in the 2008 tournament, making a single half-century in ten innings. He played a further eight matches in the second season of the IPL, but mostly as a specialist batsman with the team management usually preferring McCullum or Taibu's replacement Morne van Wyk behind the stumps.
Wriddhiman Saha was brought by the Chennai Super Kings in the 2011 IPL Auctions at his base price $100,000.
India A
Saha was named in the India A squad which played three limited overs match against the Israel Invitational XI, players made the side on the basis of his performances in the Indian Premier League. India A won the series 3-0, Saha scored an unbeaten 85 in the third match in which India chased 235.
India Test Call Up
On 28 January 2010 - Saha was included in the Indian Test squad as a reserve wicket-keeper in place of Dinesh Karthik for the upcoming home Test match series against South Africa. Although the squad was named for the first Test only, Saha's surprise inclusion raised a number of eyebrows. As Saha was a reserve gloveman, he was not expected to play, but V. V. S. Laxman failed to recover from injury and Rohit Sharma, the only reserve specialist batsman in the squad, injured himself playing football in the warm-up on the first morning. As another batsman could not be flown in on time, Saha was given his Test debut against South Africa on 6 February 2010 at Nagpur in unintended circumstances and had to play as a specialist batsman.
He scored a duck in the first innings but he scored a watchful 36 in the second innings, having survived a bat-pad appeal when on his pair. Replays showed that there was an inside edge. In both innings, fast bowler Dale Steyn took his wicket.
India lost the Test and Saha was dropped from the squad for the second Test which India subsequently won to level the two-match series.
Born 24 October 1984 (age 26)
Saktigarh, Siliguri, India
Nickname Papali, Pops
Batting style Right-handed
Role Wicket-keeper
Domestic team information
Years Team
2007– Bengal cricket team
2008-2010 Kolkata Knight Riders
2011– Chennai Super Kings
2008 India A
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA T20
Matches 1 25 36 25
Runs scored 36 1292 987 419
Batting average 18.00 34.91 49.35 26.18
100s/50s 0/0 3/5 1/5 0/2
Top score 36 159 102* 71
Catches/stumpings 0/0 65/3 35/7 1/3
Wriddhiman Prasanta Saha (born 24 October 1984) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and specialist wicket-keeper. Saha has played Test cricket for India and represents Bengal and the Chennai Super Kings in Indian domestic cricket.
Bengal
Saha made it through the ranks of the youth system, playing for the Under-19s and the Under-22s team before stepping up to first-class cricket. Saha made his one-day debut in the Ranji Trophy competition of 2006/07, against Assam. While he did not get the chance to perform with the bat during this game, he scored a duck in his debut innings in the following match. As he was nearing the end of his brief run in the Ranji Trophy, he played three one-day games for the East Zone in the Deodhar Trophy.
Saha made his first-class debut in the 2007-08 Ranji Trophy, against Hyderabad he scored 111 not out, becoming the 15th Bengal player to score a hundred on Ranji debut. Saha also made the East Zone team in the Duleep Trophy in the 2007-08 season.
Indian Premier League (IPL)
Saha was signed by the Kolkata Knight Riders for the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League. The Knight Riders squad contained two internationally-capped wicket-keepers in Brendon McCullum and Tatenda Taibu, but despite this, Saha made twelve appearances in the 2008 tournament, making a single half-century in ten innings. He played a further eight matches in the second season of the IPL, but mostly as a specialist batsman with the team management usually preferring McCullum or Taibu's replacement Morne van Wyk behind the stumps.
Wriddhiman Saha was brought by the Chennai Super Kings in the 2011 IPL Auctions at his base price $100,000.
India A
Saha was named in the India A squad which played three limited overs match against the Israel Invitational XI, players made the side on the basis of his performances in the Indian Premier League. India A won the series 3-0, Saha scored an unbeaten 85 in the third match in which India chased 235.
India Test Call Up
On 28 January 2010 - Saha was included in the Indian Test squad as a reserve wicket-keeper in place of Dinesh Karthik for the upcoming home Test match series against South Africa. Although the squad was named for the first Test only, Saha's surprise inclusion raised a number of eyebrows. As Saha was a reserve gloveman, he was not expected to play, but V. V. S. Laxman failed to recover from injury and Rohit Sharma, the only reserve specialist batsman in the squad, injured himself playing football in the warm-up on the first morning. As another batsman could not be flown in on time, Saha was given his Test debut against South Africa on 6 February 2010 at Nagpur in unintended circumstances and had to play as a specialist batsman.
He scored a duck in the first innings but he scored a watchful 36 in the second innings, having survived a bat-pad appeal when on his pair. Replays showed that there was an inside edge. In both innings, fast bowler Dale Steyn took his wicket.
India lost the Test and Saha was dropped from the squad for the second Test which India subsequently won to level the two-match series.
Wriddhiman Saha
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