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Happy Birthday to West Indies spinner Sonny Ramadhin. - chairman - 05-01-2016 Happy Birthday to West Indies spinner Sonny Ramadhin. He took 158 Test wickets, with best figures of 7/49. Re: Happy Birthday to West Indies spinner Sonny Ramadhin. - chairman - 05-02-2016 Little could the parents of SONNY RAMADHIN, the West Indies right-arm spin bowler, have guessed what a stir their son would make in the cricket world when he was born at Esperance Village, Trinidad, on May 1, 1930. His mother and father were West Indian, and a grandparent Indian. There had been no history of cricket players in the family, yet the boy, almost entirely self-taught in the game, became a bowler of remarkable merit before he was 21. READ AN OLDER ARTICLE HERE Re: Happy Birthday to West Indies spinner Sonny Ramadhin. - chairman - 05-02-2016 An early hero of many in sugar estates Re: Happy Birthday to West Indies spinner Sonny Ramadhin. - dillinger10 - 05-03-2016 Some highlights of Ramadhin's career best figures in an innings (7-49) at Edgbaston in 1957. Poor Sonny was abused in the second innings, hurling down 98 overs, and was never the same again.