Venkat Sunderam

Venkat Sunderam is a former Indian first-class cricketer who played for Delhi and Tamil Nadu. After his playing career, he became a selector for Delhi and pitch committee chairman for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Venkat Sunderam

Personal information
Full name	Venkat N Sunderam
Batting	Left-handed
Role	Batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1970/71–1980/81	Delhi
1973/74	Tamil Nadu
Career statistics
Competition FC List A Matches 81 14 Runs scored 3,855 351 Batting average 32.12 27.00 100s/50s 5/22 1/0 Top score 177 102* Balls bowled 133 6 Wickets 2 0 Bowling average 59.00 – 5 wickets in innings 0 – 10 wickets in match 0 n/a Best bowling 1/0 – Catches/stumpings 59/0 3/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 January 2016

Career

Sunderam was a left-handed opening batsman who played for Delhi between the 1970/71 and 1980/81 seasons and one season for Tamil Nadu in 1973/74. He was the leading run-getter of the 1977–78 Ranji Trophy with 608 runs at an average of 86.85 including three centuries.^[1] His personal best score of 177 came in the 1977–78 Irani Cup for the Rest of India against Bombay.^[2] He was part of the Delhi team in its back-to-back Ranji wins in 1978/79 and 1979/80. His last first class match was for Delhi in the 1980–81 Irani Cup against the Rest of India which Delhi won on first innings lead.^[3]

Sunderam was a team manager for India in the 1990s.^[4][5] He became a member of the ten-member selection committee of Delhi in 2002^[6] and a member of the five-member Delhi selection panel in 2005.^[7] He was also the pitch committee chairman for BCCI.^[8] He was Delhi District Cricket Association's curator, a position he quit in 2014.^[9] As of December 2015, he is the executive secretary of the Shahid Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Greater Noida.^[10]