Sadagoppan Ramesh is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. On debut, facing Waqar Younis

Waqar Younis

Waqar Younis Maitla is a former Pakistani right arm fast bowler in cricket and widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time...

 and Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram is a former Pakistani left arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman in cricketer and model. who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket and One Day International matches....

, he made a solid 44 off 41 balls. He was a relatively aggressive opener, ending his Test career with a strike rate at 46 runs per 100 balls - better than his opening partners such as Devang Gandhi

Devang Gandhi

Devang Jayant Gandhi is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman and a very occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler....

 and Shiv Sunder Das.

Ramesh was born in Madras - now Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

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Despite having run up a Test average of over 50 in his first six Tests, Australian detractors claimed that when it came to their bowlers, his form would not hold up; Ramesh, however, soon proved that he could easily play against other top-class cricketers. After a respectable series in 2001-02 in which he did not convert his starts into big scores, he was soon discarded from the team. In the Sri Lankan tour, Ramesh passed 30 runs in 5 out of the 6 innings but only one innings was converted to a 50. Whilst he struggled in Australia, he did score a total of 110 runs in Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar is a former Pakistani right arm fast bowler in cricket, who is regarded as the fastest bowler in the history of cricket. He set an official world record by achieving the fastest delivery, when he clocked in at 161.3 km/h in his bowling speed, twice at a cricket match against...

's first match. Akhtar took 4 wickets in each innings, including the first ball wicket of Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...

 with an inswinging yorker

Yorker

Yorker is a term used in cricket that describes a ball bowled which hits the cricket pitch around the batsman's feet. When a batsman assumes a normal stance this generally means that the cricket ball bounces on the cricket pitch on or near the batsman's popping crease...

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He played domestic cricket for Assam

Assam cricket team

The Assam cricket team is a Ranji Trophy plate group team based in Assam. Up until the 2002–03 season, when the zonal system was abandoned, it used to form a part of Eastern Zone....

 in the 2007–08 season.He has also till recently played domestic cricket for Kerala

Kerala cricket team

The Kerala cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the Indian state of Kerala. It is in the Plate Group of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first class cricket tournament in India. Kerala has produced two Indian test cricketers, Tinu Yohannan and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth...

 during the 2005–06 season and 2006–07 season.

Ramesh is the only Indian bowler to take a wicket off his first ball in ODI cricket, the victim being Nixon McLean

Nixon McLean

Nixon Alexei McNamara McLean is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-arm fast medium bowler and a left-handed batsman...

 of the West Indies.

He has recently acted in a Tamil movie, Santosh Subramaniam

Santosh Subramaniam

Santosh Subramaniam is a 2008 Tamil musical and romantic film which was directed and co-written by Raja Mohan while Kalaprathi S. Agoram produced the film. While Jayam Ravi and Genelia D'Souza played the lead roles, Prakash Raj and Geetha, prominent actors from the south Indian film industry,...

, released in April 2008. http://www.newstodaynet.com/newsindex.php?section=11&catid=20&id=6093

He also played a lead actor for the first time in the movie potta potti - 50/50. http://www.nowrunning.com/movie/7658/tamil/potta-potti-50-50/preview.html