Ramesh Saxena - a well-known Bihari with a restricted Test match career

Born on September 20, 1944, Ramesh Saxena was a quality batting all-rounder at the homegrown level. His counterparts concurred that Ramesh Chand Saxena was one of the most skilled batsmen of his period.

For instance, BishanBedi told Clayton Murzello of noontime: "I never observed anybody in Indian cricket that could leap out to spinners like Saxena. He could make dread for the restriction. Lamentably, Ramesh needed mental application and he had nobody to direct him."

The dark hour for Saxena

His absence of disposition kept him away from accomplishing the consistency, and his massive ability merited. His brilliant footwork with the spinners remunerated for his slight outline in the game. As HariGidwani told Murzello, "He moved down the scale to the best spinners business, and it was a rush to be at the opposite end while he did that."

Abbas Ali Baig, himself a superb stroke-player, disclosed to The Times of India that Saxena was "an amazingly rich stroke player. He played just one Test and that doesn't generally mirror the nature of his batsman spirit." Similarly, in Mid-Wicket Tales.

His batting parts                              

Daljit Singh reviewed: "We played junior and senior cricket together. Ramesh was a runner as well and that helped him in running between wickets. He was quick and I don't recall him declining a solitary when we were batting."

He completed his First-Class profession with 8,155 runs from 149 matches at 40.37 with 17 hundred. If he had played for a single group in Ranji Trophy, his match or score numbers would have pressed him to the top units of either side. Additionally, an unpredictable leg-break bowler, Saxena, got done with 33 wickets at 28.27. He likewise monitored spread with the capability and held 65. He arrived at his top in the last days of the 1960s when he visited Australia, England, and New Zealand. However, he got done with a count of a solitary Test.

Early days

The child of a government employee, Saxena, was conceived in Delhi. Hailed as a young wonder, a 16-year old Saxena made his First-Class debut for Delhi against Southern Punjab. Coming out at 102 for four after the travelers had got bowled out for 152, Saxena scored 113 not out. In the process, he turned into the third Delhi batsman (after JN Sethi and AjitBhatiya) to achieve a hundred on debut.

Saxena helped Delhi arrive at the Ranji Trophy semi-last in 1963-64. Delhi had surrendered a 105-run lead in Rajasthan's challenge before Saxena, coming out at 59 for 2, took control. His 151 emerged from a group score of 330. Yet, it went futile as Suryaveer Singh and Hanumant Singh helped pursue down the aggregate.

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