M. Venkataramana
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (LHB) | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm Medium Off-break | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 1 | 1 |
| Runs scored | 0 | 0 |
| Batting average | - | - |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 0* | 0* |
| Overs bowled | 11.4 | 10 |
| Wickets | 1 | 2 |
| Bowling average | 58.00 | 18.00 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | N/A |
| Best bowling | 1/10 | 2/36 |
| Catches/stumpings | 1 | 0 |
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As of September 10, 2005 |
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Margashayam Venkataramana, (born April 24, 1966, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh ) is a former Indian cricketer.
Venkataramana was a right arm off-spinner who played for Tamil Nadu in first class cricket. He made his debut in the 1987/88 season when Tamil Nadu won the Ranji Trophy. Often backed by the huge total that the batsmen compiled, he took 35 wickets, including a career best 7 for 94 in the final. Another 30 wickets in 1988/89 earned him a place in the one-day squad against the touring New Zealand and the team to West Indies. He took 247 wickets in his first class career, 212 of them for Tamil Nadu
Venkataramana's only Test match was against West Indies at Jamaica in 1988/89. He went wicketless in the first innings and was put in to bowl in the second when West Indies needed only eight runs to win. Desmond Haynes hit the first ball for four, was stumped in second to become Venkat's only Test wicket. Gus Logie hit the fourth ball for six to end the Test, series and Venkataramana's international career.
==Notes== Though Venkataramana's first name is listed in Cricinfo and Cricketarchive as Margashayam, Margasahayam seems to be the right way to write it.
