Wriddhiman Saha

Wriddhiman Saha

Wriddhiman Prasanta Saha is an Indian cricketer who plays Test matches for India and first class matches domestically for Bengal. He is the first Indian wicket-keeper to score centuries in home as well as outside Asia. Saha made his Test debut in February 2010, as a specialist batsman.

About Wriddhiman Saha in brief

Summary Wriddhiman SahaWriddhiman Prasanta Saha is an Indian cricketer who plays Test matches for India and first class matches domestically for Bengal. He is the first Indian wicket-keeper to score centuries in home as well as outside Asia. Saha made his Test debut in February 2010, as a specialist batsman. He also played in the fourth match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy in January 2012 in place of MS Dhoni, who was banned for slow over rate. In December 2014, he play his first test match since January 2012 against Australia at the same ground where he was out with a thumb injury. On March 19, 2017, Saha scored a century in a test cricket match at Jodhpur, India.

He was selected for India’s tour of West Indies as a wicketkeeper following Dhoni’s retirement from test cricket. He played for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. He made his first-class debut in the 2007–08 Ranji Trophy, against Hyderabad he scored 111 not out. He has a record of making fastest century in domestic cricket, scoring 102 runs of just 20 balls at an strike rate of 510 with 4 fours and 14 sixes in 2018. In terms of runs, only Farokh Engineer and Nayan Mongia had scored more in Test cricket than Saha.