Wriddhiman

Saha

Wriddhiman Saha (born 24 October 1984)[1] is an

Indian cricketer who plays for the national cricket team.
He is a right-handed wicket-keeper batsman. He is the
current first class captain of Tripura Cricket Team in
domestic cricket and wicket keeper for Gujarat Titans in
the Indian Premier League. He was the first cricketer to
score a century in an Indian Premier League final. He is
considered as one of the finest wicketkeeper India has
ever produced .

Wriddhiman Saha
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 Personal information

Full name Wriddhiman

Prasanta Saha

Born 24 October
1984
Siliguri, West
Bengal, India

Nickname Wriddhi,
Superman,
Papali, Stitches

Batting Right-handed

Bowling Right-arm off-

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 Bowling Right-arm off-
spin

Role Wicket-keeper
Batsman

International information

National side India (2010–

present)

Test debut 6 February

(cap 263) 2010 v South
Africa

Last Test 3 December

2021 v New
Zealand

ODI debut 28 November

(cap 190) 2010 v New
Zealand
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 Last ODI 2 November
2014 v Sri Lanka

ODI shirt no. 24

Domestic team information

Years Team
2007–2022 Bengal

2008–2010 Kolkata
Knight Riders

2011–2013 Chennai
Super Kings
(squad no. 6)

2014–2017 Kings XI
Punjab
(squad no. 6)

2018–2021 Sunrisers
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 Hyderabad

2022– Gujarat Titans

present

2022 - Tripura
present

Career statistics

Competition Test ODI

Matches 40 9

Runs scored 1,353 41

Batting average 29.41 13.67

100s/50s 3/6 0/0

Top score 117 16

Catches/stumpings 92/12 17/1

Source: ESPNcricinfo (http://conten

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 Source: ESPNcricinfo (http://conten
t-www.cricinfo.com/india/content/pl
ayer/279810.html) , 30 May 2022

Saha made his Test debut in February 2010, as a

specialist batsman. He scored his maiden Test century at
St. Lucia on a tour of the Caribbean.

Domestic career
Saha played for the Under-19s and the Under-22s team
before being promoted to first-class cricket. Saha made
his one-day debut in the Ranji Trophy competition of
2006/07, against Assam. He scored a duck in his debut
innings in the following match. Nearing the end of his
brief run in the Ranji Trophy, he played three one-day
games for the East Zone in the Deodhar Trophy.

Saha made his first-class debut in the 2007–08 Ranji

Trophy, against Hyderabad, where he scored 111 not out.
Saha also made the East Zone team in the Duleep Trophy
in the 2007–08 season.

Saha's century for Bengal on his Ranji debut landed him a

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Saha was named in the India A squad which played three

limited overs match against the Israel Invitational XI,
where he was selected on the basis of his performance in
the Indian Premier League. India A won the series 3–0.
Saha scored an unbeaten 85 in the third match in which
India chased 235.

Saha also has a record of making fastest century in

domestic cricket.[2] He scored 102 runs of just 20 balls at
a strike rate of 510 with 4 fours and 14 sixes in 2018.

Saha also has records with KT, joining in 2011, at WBC

League. He captained the team from 2011 to 2013. KT
won its 2nd title in 2012 under his captaincy. In WBC
2015 he scored 2 centuries and 4 half centuries, after he
was retained by KT in 2015 WBC Mega auction. He
scored his LA highest score in 2017 which was 154 (118)
in the 65 over WBC League 2017. In the 2021 Mumbai
WBC he scored 150 (123) vs CBST. His fastest 50 in
WBC was 54 (18).

International career
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 Test career
On 28 January 2010, Saha was included in the Indian
Test squad as a reserve wicket-keeper in place of Dinesh
Karthik for the upcoming home Test match series against
South Africa.

As Saha was a reserve gloveman, he was not expected to

play, but V. V. S. Laxman failed to recover from injury and
Rohit Sharma, the only reserve specialist batsman in the
squad, injured himself playing football in the warm-up on
the first morning. As another batsman could not be flown
in on time, Saha was given his Test debut against South
Africa.

He scored a duck in the first innings, but scored 36 in the

second innings. In both innings, fast bowler Dale Steyn
took his wicket. India lost the Test and Saha was dropped
from the squad for the second Test which India
subsequently won to level the two-match series.

Saha 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, where he made 35 runs in the
first Test which helped Virat Kohli get his maiden Test
Century.
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 He also toured South Africa in December 2013, New
Zealand in February 2014 and England in July 2014 as
part of the test squad but did not get a game.

On 9 December 2014, he was selected to play his first

test match since January 2012 against Australia, at the
same ground where he had played his last match,
because MS Dhoni was out with a thumb injury. He made
25 runs in the first inning and 13 runs in the second
inning.[3] He also played in the fourth match of the series
and made 35 runs.

In 2015, he was selected for India's Tour of Bangladesh

and Sri Lanka for test matches. He scored 2 fifties in 2
test matches he played in Sri Lanka. He also played in
tests of Gandhi-Mandela Freedom Trophy 2015.

In 2016, he was selected for India's tour of West Indies as

a wicket-keeper.[4] In the first test against West Indies,
Saha became the third wicket-keeper in Indian cricket
history to feature in six dismissals in a test innings.[5] He
scored twin fifties at Eden Gardens, his home ground, in
October 2016 to get his 1st- ever man of the match
award. He was also selected for 5 match Test series
against England in India but played only in the 1st and
2nd matches, and was out of the rest of the series due to
injury.
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 He scored his 2nd test hundred against Bangladesh in a
one-off test in February 2017.

On 19 March 2017, Saha scored a century at JSCA

International Stadium against Australia, making 117 off
233 balls which included 8 fours and 1 six. India were
328/6, which was 123 behind Australia's first innings total
of 451 when he came to bat and added 199 for the
seventh wicket with Cheteshwar Pujara.[6]

On 8 January 2018, against South Africa Saha became

the first wicket-keeper for India to take ten catches in a
single Test.[7] Later on he got injured in that series and
did not play the final match. India lost that series 2–1. He
suffered a hamstring injury in South Africa but still played
in the 2018 IPL, which worsened his injury. He was not
selected for 5 Test match series in India's tour of England
in 2018 due to his injury and he was replaced by Rishabh
Pant . Pant's good performances made Saha out of team
and he was not selected for India's tour of Australia in
2018–19. Later on, after recovering from injuries, he was
part of the India A team that toured West Indies in 2019.

Saha played in the 3 match Test series against South

Africa in India in 2019 and took many magical catches. In
November 2019, in the second Test against Bangladesh,
Saha became the fifth wicket-keeper for India to affect
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 100 dismissals in Test cricket.[8] In January 2020, Saha
was selected for 2 Test Series in New Zealand but did not
play any match. In December 2020, he was selected for 4
Test Match series in Australia and played only in the first
Test, scoring 9 in the first innings and 4 in the second
innings. He was dropped for next match. He substituted
Rishabh Pant in the 3rd Innings of 3rd match and helped
Navdeep Saini get his first Test wicket. He stayed on the
bench for the whole series against England in February–
March 2021. He was selected in India's Squad for the
WTC Final and India's Tour of England 2021 but did not
feature in the playing 11.

In November, 2021, Saha was selected as the first-choice

wicket keeper in the two-match test series between India
and New Zealand. Despite suffering a neck injury during
the first test, Saha scored an unbeaten 61 runs during the
second innings of the match,[9] which earned him praise
from critics. His 200 from 221 balls in Test cricket vs Eng
in 2018 and 148 in 123 balls in ODI vs SL also gave him
confidence. His lowest ODI score – 6* (10), in an ODI vs
SL in 2014, in the same series added 6 runs to India
404/5, for Rohit hit of 264 (173).
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 ODI career
He made his ODI debut against New Zealand in 2010 in 5
ODIs series and played in the first 3 matches. After he
scored 115 runs in the 2014 IPL final he was called to tour
Bangladesh as part of the 15 man squad to 3 ODIs
against Bangladesh Cricket Team but did not bat well.
Same year, he was again selected to the ODI team for 5
matches team against Sri Lanka after MS Dhoni the first
choice keeper and Captain was out due to a thumb injury.
He played in the first 3 matches but was dropped for 4th
and 5th match. Since then, he never returned to ODI
Team.

Indian Premier League

Saha played for Kolkata Knight Riders in the first three
sessions on IPL but in 2011 he was picked by Chennai
Super Kings as a reserve wicket keeper for MS Dhoni. He
also represented the Chennai Super Kings in 2012 and
2013. In 2014 IPL Auction Saha was purchased by Kings
XI Punjab as a specialist wicketkeeper. In the tournament
Saha not only took some good catches but also
contributed with the bat. He made 362 runs at an
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In the IPL Final against Kolkata Knight Riders Saha

became the first player to score a hundred in an IPL final
when he made an unbeaten 115 runs from 55 balls,
including 10 fours and 8 sixes. However, despite his feat,
his team eventually lost the match.[10]

In December 2018, he was bought by the Sunrisers

Hyderabad in the player auction for the 2019 Indian
Premier League.[11][12] In 2020 season, he only played 4
matches and scored 214 run with a 70+ average
including 2 brilliant half centuries as an opener of
Sunrisers Hyderabad. In 2021 Season, playing in 9
matches, he scored 131 runs with an average of 14.55
and strike rate of 93.57. He was released by Sunrisers
Hyderabad ahead of IPL 2022 auction. In February 2022,
he was bought by the Gujarat Titans in the auction for the
2022 Indian Premier League tournament.[13]

Personal life
Saha is from Siliguri. In 2011 he married Romi Saha; the
couple have two children.

In 2022 he revealed that a journalist had bullied and

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 threatened him. A BCCI committee investigated the
claims and the journalist, Boria Majumdar, was banned
for two years from interviewing any cricketer.[14]

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