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  Ramnaresh Sarwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan (born June 23, 1980, Guyana) is a West Indian cricketer.
Sarwan was dropped from the side for the 2nd Test against Pakistan in November 2006.
Ramnaresh Sarwan is a South American who's parents are of Indian descent.His name is most commonly used among Hindus and Tamilians from India.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramnaresh_Sarwan   (408 words)

  
 Is Sarwan Destined For Greatness
Ramnaresh Sarwan, a special son who hails from the tiny island of Wakenaam in Guyana, captured both the accolades and imagination of the cricket world on the game's greatest stage with his strokeplay, raw courage and resilience during the recent World Cup.
Sarwan, the injured warrior, bloodied but unbowed, returned to his teammates, who must have been humbled by his daring, but just as distressed by the result.
Sarwan's road to international recognition began when he became the tenth West Indian Test teenaged cricketer when he was selected in the second Test against Pakistan at Kensington Oval in the 1999-2000 series.
www.caribvoice.org /Sports/sarwan.html   (2051 words)

  
 Ramnaresh Sarwan : The Gutsy Guyanese : Cricketfundas.com
In fact, Sarwan became the youngest regional first-class player ever with a first class debut against the fiery bowling attack of Barbados when he was just 15 years old.
Ever since his test debut, Sarwan has been producing some neat innings for the West Indies and a test match average of 38 from 79 test innings (as of date of this article), this stylish right-hander hasn't fully used his potential as yet.
Ramnaresh Sarwan won millions of hearts with his courageous knock against Sri Lanka in a World Cup clash at Newlands after defying medical advice for his team.
www.cricketfundas.com /sarwanprofile.html   (577 words)

  
 Patel is dominating in nature: Sarwan
Sarwan, who celebrated his 26th birthday, said he was not aware of the feat of becoming only the third batsman to score six fours in a row when the Indian was bowling his 19th over, but made the effort after suggestion by Daren Ganga, the other centurion of the day.
Sarwan also said he did not really plan his hundred but the ton he scored at the same venue during the one-day series a month ago was indeed at the back of his mind.
Sarwan had abdicated his number three position in the second Test of St. Lucia but here he was back to his accustomed spot.
www.rediff.com /cricket/2006/jun/24sarwan.htm   (700 words)

  
 The Nation Newspaper | Not being vice-captain 'no problem' for Sarwan
RAMNARESH SARWAN is not flustered by the West Indies Cricket Board's policy in not appointing a vice-captain for the 2006 Digicel Series.
The 25-year-old Sarwan served as vice-captain for most of the last three years, but was overlooked for the job when Brian Lara was named captain at the start of this year's home season.
Sarwan, a veteran of 59 Tests and 100 One-Day Internationals, was noncommittal when asked if the decision to bypass him as official vice-captain was a demotion.
www.nationnews.com /story/293373835117836.php   (210 words)

  
 ABC Sport - Cricket - Sarwan relishes Test best
Sarwan's innings was marred by a bad-tempered exchange with Australian paceman Glenn McGrath after the bowler apparently heard the batsman make what appeared to be a comment about his wife Jane, who is currently battling cancer.
Later Sarwan, who has only previously made one Test century, admitted he was frustrated at the manner of his dismissal as he miscued an attempted and sent the ball looping into the hands of bowler Brett Lee, who took an easy catch.
Sarwan was impressed with 20-year-old off-spinner Omari Banks, who shared in an unbeaten 83-run seventh-wicket partnership with Shivnarine Chanderpaul as they took West Indies within 47 runs of their target with four wickets in hand.
www.abc.net.au /sport/content/s853299.htm   (685 words)

  
 Looking for the elusive fifth gear
Sarwan, in his second trip to the land of his forefathers - he was part of the West Indies 'A' team that played against India 'A' in India in 1998 - is expected to shoulder the West Indian middle order in the company of his Guyanese team-mates - skipper Hooper and the dogged Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
Sarwan soon joined the act, but Kaif and his footsoldiers were hardly aware of the wounds being inflicted.
Sarwan's balance sheet too had a healthy look with 318 runs, but while recalling his Lankan sojourn, he shakes his head in disbelief and says, "Murali (Muralitharan) was a problem." Understandable, since Murali scalped Sarwan in four consecutive innings.
www.tssonnet.com /tss2542/25420380.htm   (947 words)

  
 MSN INDIA - Injured Sarwan out of ODI series
Sarwan was carried from the field after fast bowler Umar Gul's brutal yorker hit his foot during the fifth and final day of the third cricket test.
Sarwan was later taken to the hospital where x-rays revealed a hairline fracture on his right instep.
Sarwan has had a disappointing tour of Pakistan, scoring 3 and 23 in the first Test at Lahore, which the West Indies lost by nine wickets.
content.msn.co.in /Sports/Cricket/Stories/CricketAP_021206_1109.htm   (353 words)

  
 Sarwan left stranded as Windies struggle in second ODI
Sarwan was left stranded agonisingly close to his third One-day International hundred as India restricted West Indies to 198 for nine from their allocation of 50 overs in their second ODI at Sabina Park.
Ramnaresh Sarwan was left stranded agonisingly close to his third One-day International hundred as India restricted West Indies to 198 for nine from their allocation of 50 overs in their second ODI at Sabina Park.
Sarwan batted painstakingly and was left undefeated on 98 from 138 balls after West Indies started disastrously losing their openers inside the first three overs and never recovered after being sent in to bat.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=124480   (979 words)

  
 Birthday boy Sarwan celebrates in style -DAWN - Sport; June 24, 2006
Sarwan was 113 not out with Shivnarine Chanderpaul on two as the West Indies reached lunch on the second day of the third test against India on 362 for three in their first innings.
Sarwan hooked the second ball to the square leg ropes for another four, and he drove the third uppishly through cover for his third boundary of the over.
Patel was unlucky not to dismiss Sarwan with his next ball, which found the inside edge of the bat before scooting to the fine leg fence.
www.dawn.com /2006/06/24/spt23.htm   (723 words)

  
 The Hindu : Sport : Ganga, Sarwan send India on a leather-hunt
Basseterre: Daren Ganga made his first hundred in three years, Ramnaresh Sarwan reached his ninth century in a blaze of boundaries, as West Indies furthered its position of strength in the third Test here at Warner Park.
Sarwan cleared the infield with hoicks to cow corner; Dravid relented by pushing his field back on this small ground.
Sarwan then found six different parts of the field off a Munaf seven-ball over to join Sandeep Patil (off Bob Willis, seven balls) and Chris Gayle (off Matthew Hoggard, six balls) as the only men to have hit six fours in an over.
www.hindu.com /2006/06/24/stories/2006062409111700.htm   (682 words)

  
 sport.iafrica.com | today Sarwan rocks Bangladesh
Four wickets, three to Ramnaresh Sarwan, tumbled in the space of 24 balls to leave Bangladesh in a perilous position in the opening cricket Test against West Indies on Monday.
Sarwan removed Mohammad Ashraful, Faisal Hossain and Mushfiqur Rahman in a dramatic half-hour spell in the final period of an action-packed, weather-affected fourth day to leave Bangladesh on 94 for six in their second innings when bad light stopped play nine overs early.
Next over, Sarwan had Hossain caught at first slip edging a loose drive, but he made a real impact when Ashraful was caught and bowled for one driving back a full toss and, next ball, Mushfiqur was adjudged LBW to a leg-break pitching on leg-stump.
sport.iafrica.com /news/326277.htm   (701 words)

  
 Sarwan century puts West Indies ahead in ODI series -DAWN - Sport; May 25, 2006
Sarwan top-scored with a career-best 115 not out, while Shivnarine Chanderpaul chipped in with 58 during a 106-run partnership for the fifth wicket.
Sarwan and Chanderpaul looked set to take West Indies to victory but fast bowler Irfan Pathan trapped Chanderpaul in front with a yorker length delivery that left nine runs to be scored off 10 balls.
Sarwan, playing in his 100th one-day international, had to keep a cool head during his innings of 119 balls in which he hit 10 fours and two sixes.
www.dawn.com /2006/05/25/spt5.htm   (491 words)

  
 SI.com - Cricket - Sarwan, Chanderpaul raise Windies hopes - Tuesday May 13, 2003 06:16 AM
Vice-captain Sarwan hit a superb 105 and Chanderpaul, a crucial, unbeaten 103 to lead the home team to close at 371 for six, just 47 runs away from their mammoth target of 418 with one day remaining.
But it was not enough to cool Sarwan and Chanderpaul, who brought the crowd to life with their blazing fifth wicket stand of 123 in just under two hours.
Sarwan brought up his second test century as he and Chanderpaul, both from Guyana, rattled the Australians.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2003/05/13/wi_aus_copy4_ap   (945 words)

  
 Sarwan cools captaincy talk - Cricket West Indies
Ramnaresh Sarwan admits leading the West Indies would be an honour - but has no desire to relieve the under-fire Brian Lara of the burden at present.
Sarwan, 24, has been one of the Windies' more consistent performers in a run that has seen them lose five out of six Tests against England this year.
Sarwan took over the captaincy on a couple of occasions at Edgbaston a fortnight ago when Lara went off the field for an injured finger and toothache.
www.cricketwi.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=154   (757 words)

  
 The Nation Newspaper | Sarwan to play county cricket
Sarwan, 25, has been excluded from the West Indies squad for that series due to the continuing contract disputes that have rumbled for months.
A nimble, right-hander, Sarwan, who was brought up in the South American rainforest around the Essequibo River, has scored eight Test hundreds, four of them against South Africa.
Sarwan said his omission from the West Indies team was not a setback.
www.nationnews.com /story/338193884597041.php   (272 words)

  
 Psychological edge with Windies, says Sarwan
West Indies vice-captain Ramnaresh Sarwan believes his side has a psychological advantage over England going into the final of the ICC Champions Trophy cricket tournament at the Oval on Saturday.
Sarwan, whose unbeaten half century was a key factor in his team's victory, said the triumph over Pakistan was also very important for team morale as they have not won any major titles in recent years.
Sarwan also singled out Dwayne Bravo as the bowler who inflicted the maximum damage on the Pakistan innings.
www.rediff.com /cricket/2004/sep/23sarwan.htm   (385 words)

  
 Guyana Cricket World Cup 2007 Official Website, Ramnaresh Sarwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
A nimble, Chaplinesque right-hander, Ramnaresh Sarwan was brought up in the South American rainforest around the Essequibo River.
Sarwan, who took over as Brian Lara's vice-captain in March 2003, required 28 matches and 49 innings to post his maiden Test century, 119 in December 2002 - and even then it came against the less-than-mighty Bangladeshis.
Sarwan played a big hand in both tournaments, and carried on his good form in Australia.
www.guyanaworldcup2007.com /sarwan.htm   (402 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport
Sarwan scored his second Test hundred with 105 and Chanderpaul blasted 104 off 154 balls to frustrate the Aussies,who were poised to make a clean sweep..
Sarwan, on 86 at the time of the incident, defied the powerful Australian bowling attack to score only his second century after 15 Test half-centuries to give the West Indies hope of a stunning win against the odds.
Sarwan, who has only previously made one Test century, admitted he was frustrated at the manner of his dismissal as he miscued an attempted and sent the ball looping into the hands of bowler Brett Lee, who took an easy catch.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030514/sports.htm   (3575 words)

  
 The Hindu : Hinds, Sarwan torment President's XI
Hinds' 147 and Sarwan's unbeaten 93 helped the West Indies close day two at 341 for two, 66 runs ahead of the Board President's XI first innings score of 275 for eight declared.
The opening partnership worth 128 runs from 28.3 overs was the perfect backdrop for Ramnaresh Sarwan to get his eye in and partake in the run feast.
The ball was steaming towards the off-stump when Sarwan whipped his bat in a delectable arc and the next second, the ball was racing past point.
www.hindu.com /2002/10/06/stories/2002100606321900.htm   (638 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Sports Talk | Forum | Q&A: Ramnaresh Sarwan
West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan is one of the brightest young stars in international cricket.
Ramnaresh Sarwan: I never had that doubt in my mind at any point in time.
Regardless of whether we are playing against a good team or an outstanding team I think we can match them, we have been making good progress and I think we can build on this.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/sports_talk/forum/2551133.stm   (1019 words)

  
 Cricket-Online: Sarwan rescues Windies on 4th day
Needing to rebuild, Sarwan and opener Wavell Hinds went about wiping off the 1st innings deficit as the two scrapped for a valuable 2nd wicket partnership against a hostile South African attack.
In a pile of trouble the Windies needed a partnership desperately and thanks to a resilient Dwayne Bravo and a determined Ramnaresh Sarwan the hosts were able to slowly crawl their way back into the game.
Sarwan put his hand up when the Windies were in trouble and played a special innings which contained 9 boundaries in 190 balls, finishing at stumps on 93 after his failure in the 1st innings on the opening day.
cricket-online.org /news.php?sid=4525   (504 words)

  
 Malteenoes Sports Club - News
Twenty-five year old West Indies Vice-Captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has been appointed captain of the Guyana team for the inaugural Stanford 20/20 cricket tournament to be staged in Antigua from July 11.
Sarwan replaces fellow West Indies player Shivnarine Chanderpaul who was first appointed Guyana captain for the 2003 regional one-day competition although Sarwan was at that time the Indies Vice-Captain and had captained Demerara (which included Chanderpaul) in the 2003 inter-county competition.
Sarwan has played 151 first-class matches since becoming the youngest player at that level in West Indies cricket as a 15-year-old in 1996 and has a first-class average of 37.64; scoring 8,921 runs and 20 centuries at this level.
www.malteenoes.org /news.php?id=10   (611 words)

  
 Sarwan sets four-hitting record on his birthday
Basseterre, St Kitts: Ramnaresh Sarwan could not have asked for a better way to celebrate his 26th birthday as he hit a marvellous hundred to put West Indies in a commanding position and got his name etched on the record books by hitting six fours in one over of Munaf Patel.
Sarwan was the most successful batsman for the West Indies in the One-day series, but in the following two Tests, he was far from impressive.
Sarwan also revealed that the West Indies batsmen had chalked out a plan to tackle the Indian spinners especially Anil Kumble.
thatscricket.oneindia.in /news/2006/06/24/2406sarwan-birthday.html   (469 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - Sarwan delights - Sunday | May 21, 2000
Though the youngest and newest West Indian was the hero of the day, the fans were also entertained with the bat by Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh - the two oldest and longest serving members of the team.
The 37-year-old Walsh joined the action at 362 for nine with Sarwan on 70, struck two mighty sixes off Saqlain, reeled off a lovely drive to the long-on boundary off Akram, and shared a last-wicket partnership of 36 with Sarwan before he stretched forward to Saqlain and nicked a catch to wicketkeeper Moin Khan.
On a day when batsmen once again dominated the action, on a day when two teenagers batted like big men and stole the show, Saqlain was the pick of the bowlers with five for 121 off 51 overs.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20000521/Sports/Sports1.html   (346 words)

  
 JahajeeDesiForum -> A study in contrasts, Sarwan and Chanderpaul have   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
Sarwan's latest form doubtless would inspire the team for these runs are not accruing against the likes of Zimbabwe.
Sarwan is the extrovert, the player who likes to party as long as it doesn’t affect the game.
A year later, Sarwan survived a bigger tragedy, the death of his childhood girlfriend Lisa, during his first overseas tour with the team, to England, the “lowest moment” of his life.
www.jahajeedesi.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=2258   (1447 words)

  
 Ton for Sarwan as Lara falls short - Cricket - www.theage.com.au
Ramnaresh Sarwan completed his century but Andrew Flintoff prevented Brian Lara reaching the same mark as West Indies moved to 3-288 in the second Test against England at Edgbaston.
At lunch on day three Sarwan was 135 not out and Shivnarine Chanderpaul 27, with the touring side still 278 runs adrift of England's first innings total of 9(dec)-566.
Thorpe's catch atoned for an earlier spill off Sarwan at gully off the impressive James Anderson when the West Indies vice-captain was on 92.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/07/31/1091080488403.html?from=storylhs   (240 words)

  
 Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Ramnaresh Sarwan
Then came the England tour in 2004 where he began and ended the tour on a low note, but was prolific in the middle.
However, West Indian fortunes were on the ascendency in one-dayers, as they reached the finals of the Natwest Series and then won the ICC Champions Trophy with Sarwan playing a big hand in both tournaments.
Ramnaresh Sarwan falls over after being struck on the foot
content-usa.cricinfo.com /westindies/content/player/52969.html   (591 words)

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