Happy Birthday to West Indies spinner Sonny Ramadhin.

Happy Birthday to West Indies spinner Sonny Ramadhin. He took 158 Test wickets, with best figures of 7/49.

Little could the parents of SONNY RAMADHIN, the West Indies right-arm spin bowler, have guessed what a stir their son would make in the cricket world when he was born at Esperance Village, Trinidad, on May 1, 1930. His mother and father were West Indian, and a grandparent Indian. There had been no history of cricket players in the family, yet the boy, almost entirely self-taught in the game, became a bowler of remarkable merit before he was 21.
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An early hero of many in sugar estates

Some highlights of Ramadhin's career best figures in an innings (7-49) at Edgbaston in 1957.



Poor Sonny was abused in the second innings, hurling down 98 overs, and was never the same again.