Youngest West Indies First Class debutant to retire
After a prolific career which spanned 21 years starting with a match for Guyana 1995/96 and ending in Trinbago Knight Riders’ colours in 2016 former Guyana and West Indies Cricket Captain Ramnaresh ‘Ronnie’ Sarwan will officially announce his retirement from all forms of cricket on Thursday September 15. The announcement will be made at the primary school that Sarwan attended, the Stella Maris Primary School at Woolford Avenue, Thomas Lands at 10:00h.
Ramnaresh Sarwan
The 36-year-old Sarwan started his career at Stella Marris where he scored his first two centuries in the U-12 competition. He will make a presentation of an autographed bat along with Scotia Bank Kiddies shirts and a Scotia Bank Kiddies cricket gears’ bag with bats, stumps and balls for the school’s Kiddies cricket team.
Sarwan played 87 Test matches for the West Indies between May 2000 and June 2011. He scored 5,842 runs with 15 centuries, a highest score of 291 against England at an average of 40.1 per innings.
Sarwan made his ODI debut in July 2000 against England and played a total of 181 matches to score 5,804 runs at an Ave of 42.60 per innings with five hundreds.
He played 220 First-Class matches and made 33 centuries at an average of 38.52 and holds the record for the youngest West Indian player to play First-Class Cricket which he did it at 15 years-old, playing for Guyana against Barbados at the Albion Community Centre ground, Berbice.
Sarwan, who was born in Wakenaam Essequibo but represented Demerara in Inter-County cricket, last played for Knight Riders in this year’s CPL Tournament.
The right handed batsman is one of only 11 players to score 4000 or more runs batting at number three and at one time was regarded as the best finishers in ODIs.
He last played an international match for the West Indies in 2013 in an ODI game against India at the Kennington Oval in the Champions Trophy tournament. His talent afforded him the opportunity to play for professional teams in the West Indies, India and England which for most of those periods he did with success.
