Gundappa Viswanath
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Gundappa Ranganath Viswanath (born 12 February 1949) is a former Indian cricketer.
He was one of India's finest batsmen throughout the 1970s.
Viswanath played Test cricket for India from 1969 to 1983, totaling over 6000 runs.
He appeared in One Day Internationals from 1974 to 1982, including the World Cups of 1975 and 1979.
He played for Karnataka (formerly Mysore) throughout his career, as well as at state level.
Viswanath, more commonly known as "Vishy," had an elegant and wristy batting style that emphasized timing rather than strength.
Despite having a vast repertoire of shots around the wicket, Viswanath's favorite was the square cut, a weapon he used often against fast bowlers.
He was most likely to fielded at a slip position.
Career and highlights
Viswanath scored a century against Australia at Kanpur in 1969 in a drawn match on his Test match debut. He also scored a duck in the same game, one of only four batsmen to do this in their first match. Viswanath is one of three players to reach a century in both his first class and Test debuts. He has earned 13 centuries in Test careers, none of whom were successful in a match that was lost. He tended to have his best results on difficult pitches, and a few of his best innings, while not centuries old, were vital to the team's success.
He had a batting average of over 50 against Australia and the West Indies, who were both known for their high pace attacks. In the mid-1970s, he was at his peak. He scored 97 not out of a total of 190 against a bowling attack involving Andy Roberts in Madras, 1974-75. Despite not being a century, it was considered one of an Indian's finest performances, culminating in an Indian victory. It was voted the 38th best innings of all time and the second best non-century ever constructed. In the previous Test at Calcutta, he scored a match-winning century, but the sequence was ended 3–2.
Viswanath achieved some good results against the West Indies between 1975 and 1976, one of which was his 112 at Port of Spain, which helped India beat the victory target of 403. This was the most successful run-chase in Test cricket at the time. He top scored in 1978–79 at Madras, with 124 out of a total of 255. India continued to win the game, which culminated in a 1–0 series win in the 6-match series, but this West Indian team was much weaker than the previous series, with many players opting to play in World Series Cricket instead.
Viswanath was a member of the team that lost the series 3–0 during the 1982–83 Test Series in Pakistan. Viswanath was one of the Indian batsmen who did not do well due in large part to Pakistani umpires' inflammatory decisions that were believed to be biased against their own bowlers. This kind of prejudice against the home team resulted in the introduction of neutral umpires in the year 1994, with just one neutral umpire in a test match, and both umpires have been neutral in a test match since 2002.