Mahendra Nagamootoo
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Mahendra Nagamootoo | ||||
West Indies | ||||
Personal information | ||||
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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 |
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.