Five greatest international cricketers from West Bengal

Wriddhiman Saha

Primarily a keeper, Saha has done well with bat too

For the better part of his 20s, Saha had to sit out of the Indian cricket team, thanks to the presence of charismatic wicketkeeper-batsman, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. However, post the retirement of Dhoni from Tests in December 2014, Saha has emerged as India’s first choice wicketkeeper in the red ball cricket.

In the last couple of years, he has received accolades galore for both his wicketkeeping and batting. His glove work has been neat and he has chipped in with useful runs down the order. In the last home season where India won 10 of 13 Tests, Saha reached three figures thrice with only Kohli (5) and Pujara (4) having more centuries against their names.

The 32-year old stumper has 1112 Tests runs at 32.70 from 28 matches in addition to his collection of 56 catches and 10 stumpings behind the wicket. He has not been able to make much of an impression in the limited-overs cricket as evidenced by his poor tally of 41 runs at 13.66 from 9 games, but he has proved a more than capable hitter in the IPL.