Ramesh was born on 13 October 1975 to at Madras, Tamil Nadu to P.C.Sadgopan.[1][2] He finished his college at Guru Nanak College in Chennai.[3] Ramesh is married to Aparna and they have a daughter.[4]
Career
International
Ramesh made his test debut for India against Pakistan in the first test at his home ground at Chennai during the Pakistan tour of India in 1999.[5] Ramesh was the highest scorer with 323 runs in three matches in his debut series.[6] Ramesh subsequently scored his first century against Sri Lanka in the second test of the 1998–99 Asian Test Championship at Colombo in February 1999.[7] Ramesh made his ODI debut in March 1999 in the Pepsi Cup match against Sri Lanka scoring 24 in an Indian victory.[8] Subsequently, Ramesh was named in the Indian squad for the 1999 Cricket World Cup.[9] Ramesh scored 144 runs in five matches at the world cup.[10]
On 5 September 1999, Ramesh took a wicket of the first ball he bowled in ODI cricket in a match against West Indies in the Coca-cola challenge at Singapore becoming the first Indian to take a wicket off his first ball.[11] Ramesh played in the subsequent series against West Indies in Toronto, Canada where he scored 57 runs across three matches.[12] Ramesh played his final series in the LG Cup against South Africa and Kenya at Nairobi with his final match coming in the final of the series on 3 October 1999.[13] Overall, he scored 646 runs in 24 matches at an average of 28.08.[14]
Ramesh played in the home series against New Zealand in October 1999.[15] He scored 287 runs with his second and last century also coming in the third test of the series at Ahmedabad.[16] Ramesh played two tests against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar trophy in Australia December 1999, scoring 60 runs.[17] He also played the return leg of the Border-Gavaskar trophy in February-March 2001. He played all three matches in the series, scoring 162 runs with the highest score of 61 in the final test in Chennai leading to a memorable series victory for India.[18] Ramesh's final series came in the Indian tour of Sri Lanka in 2001.[19] He played his final test in September 2001 at Colombo finishing off with a score of 55 runs in the final innings.[20] He played 19 tests overall scoring 1467 runs at an average of 37.97 with two centuries.[15]
Domestic
He made his debut for Tamil Nadu in the 1995-96 season and played domestic cricket for them for ten seasons.[1] He opened the innings for the team and scored more than seven thousand runs in first class cricket at an average of over 43.[1] Ramesh was part of the team that reached the finals of Ranji Trophy two consecutive seasons in 2002-03 and 2003-04.[21] He also represented Kerala during 2005–06, 2006–07 seasons and Assam in the 2007–08 season.[22][1]
