Sadanand Viswanath

[fineleg]

They are showing 1985 series in Australia (Benson and Hedges, I think) What a wonderful keeping display by Sadanand Viswanath The match being shown Ind-Eng 6th Match at Sydney Cricket Ground

[urbestfriend]

I remember my father talking about this player, it seems he was a natural keeper, one of the best India has seen at that point of time but he wasted his talent due to alcoholism.

[fineleg]

Fantastic keeping and decent batsman! Yep, he blew it with some bad habits

[fineleg]

Squad (from wiki) Playing squads [edit] Australia Allan Border (captain), Terry Alderman, Peter Faulkner, Rodney Hogg, Kim Hughes, Dean Jones, Robbie Kerr, Geoff Lawson, Rod McCurdy, Craig McDermott, Simon O'Donnell, Wayne B. Phillips, Kepler Wessels, Graeme Wood. [edit] England David Gower (captain), Jonathan Agnew, Norman Cowans, Chris Cowdrey, Paul Downton, Phil Edmonds, Richard Ellison, Neil Foster, Graeme Fowler, Mike Gatting, Allan Lamb, Vic Marks, Martyn Moxon, Tim Robinson . [edit] India Sunil Gavaskar (captain), Mohinder Amarnath, Mohammad Azharuddin, Roger Binny, Kapil Dev, Madan Lal, Chetan Sharma, Ravi Shastri, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Dilip Vengsarkar, Sadanand Viswanath, Manoj Prabhakar. There were other teams incl Pak

[Sir john]

:hmmmm: any link.

[vishalvirsingh]

i also saw it.. possibly i have never seen any keeper doing a better job than this... i am so sad that such a talented keeper did not play a long ininings for india..Vishal

[Gunner_Mania]

Read Sunny's book One Day Wonders. It is entirely about the B&H series and a bit about the Sharjah tournament following it.