Mahendra Nagamootoo

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Mahendra Nagamootoo

West Indies
Personal information
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Career statistics
Tests ODIs
Matches 5 24
Runs scored 185 162
Batting average 26.42 13.50
100s/50s -/1 -/-
Top score 68 33
Balls bowled 1494 1189
Wickets 12 18
Bowling average 53.08 55.44
5 wickets in innings - -
10 wickets in match - n/a
Best bowling 3/119 4/32
Catches/stumpings 2/- 6/-

As of 25 January 2006
Source: [1]

Mahendra Veeren Nagamootoo (born October 9, 1975 in Berbice, Guyana) is a West Indian cricketer of Indo-Guyanese ethnicity. Mahendra Nagamootoo is a bits-and-pieces man who admitted, after scoring 68 at Sydney in his second Test in 2000-01, that batting comes easier to him than the legbreak bowling he was actually picked to do. He rolls the ball out from a chest-on action, without getting too much purchase on it, and though he achieved a rare feat by bowling Steve Waugh in that Sydney game, it came via a freak rebound from the leg-side rough. A free-hitting left-handed batsman, Nagamootoo also looked an outstanding fielder in a sluggish team. Nagamootoo is the nephew of both Rohan Kanhai and Alvin Kallicharan; two of the best ever West Indian batsmen of Indian descent. Nagamootoo has a brother Vishal, who plays cricket for Guyana.

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