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'''Virinchirpuram Krishnamoorthi Ramaswamy''' (born 26 April 1945) is a former [[India]]n [[Test cricket|Test]] [[cricket]] [[umpire (cricket)|umpire]].

Ramaswamy was born in [[Madras]] and worked for [[Indian Railways]]. He umpired in Indian domestic [[first-class cricket|first-class matches]] from the early 1970s, including the finals of the [[Ranji Trophy]] in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1994, and 1997 and the final of the [[Duleep Trophy]] in 1991, 1998 and 1999. In the 1991 Duleep Trophy final, between [[North Zone cricket team|North Zone]] and [[West Zone cricket team|West Zone]], he was criticised by [[Bishen Bedi]] for failing to defuse the tension between the sides which led to the game being abandoned after bowler [[Rashid Patel]] bowled a succession of [[bouncer (cricket)|bouncers]] and [[Beamer (cricket)|beamer]]s at batsman [[Raman Lamba]] before seizing a [[stump (cricket)|stump]] and pursuing him to the [[third man]] boundary, with Lamba using his bat to fend off Patel's blows. ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' described the incident at "the most shameful moment in the history of Indian cricket".<ref>''Great sporting scandals'', Geoff Tibballs, Robson, 2003 {{ISBN|1861056869}}, p.255-6</ref>

He umpired 26 [[Test cricket|Test matches]] between January 1985 to November 1999, and 43 [[One Day International|ODI]]s between November 1983 and January 2002, mainly in India – only 7 of his Test matches were overseas.

He made his ODI debut as umpire in the match between [[India national cricket team|India]] and [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] at [[Moti Bagh Stadium]], [[Vadodara]], on 9 November 1983.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/44/44153.html] He umpired in the [[1987 Cricket World Cup]] and in the [[1996 Cricket World Cup]] in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, including the match on 29 February 1996 in which [[Kenya national cricket team|Kenya]] unexpectedly beat West Indies by 73 runs, described by ''Wisden'' as "One of the biggest upsets in cricket history."[ref] His last ODI was the second between [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]] and [[New Zealand national cricket team|New Zealand]] at [[Barabati Stadium]], [[Cuttack]] on 22 January 2002.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/73/73887.html]

He made his Test umpiring debut in January 1985, in the fourth Test between India and [[England national cricket team|England]] at the [[MA Chidambaram Stadium]], Madras,[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/45/45530.html] and was hailed by ''Wisden'' as a "top-class umpire".[http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/151943.html] He stood regularly in Test matches in India until 1988, and also in the second and third Tests in Pakistan in November 1986 between Pakistan and West Indies. The first of these matches was the first to have two neutral umpires – Ramaswamy and fellow Indian umpire, [[Piloo Reporter]] – since English umpires presided over [[Triangular Tests]] between [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] and [[South African cricket team|South Africa]] in 1912.

With [[Ram Babu Gupta]], he umpired the 5th Test between India and Pakistan at Bangalore in March 1987 – [[Sunil Gavaskar]]'s last Test match. Having reached 96 in the second innings, with the score at 180–7 chasing 221 to win, Ramaswamy gave Sunil Gavaskar out, caught at slip by [[Rizwan-uz-Zaman]] off the bowling of [[Iqbal Qasim]]. Pakistan quickly won the match by 16 runs. Gavaskar later remarked that the match may have turned out differently if veteran Indian umpire [[Swaroop Kishen]] had been standing.[https://books.google.com/books?id=SGgr3sdWrWoC&pg=PA195&dq=Swaroop+Kishen&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false]

After his 12th Test as umpire, the second Test between India and New Zealand at [[Wankhede Stadium]], [[Bombay]] in November 1988,[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50663.html] there was a hiatus of more than 4 years before he returned as umpire in the second Test between India and England in February 1993, in Madras.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/56/56964.html] In 1994, he and [[Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan]] were the two Indians on the first [[International Panel of Umpires and Referees|international panel of umpires]], set up by the [[International Cricket Council|ICC]] to ensure that one neutral umpire would stand in every Test match (later supplemented by the [[Elite Panel of ICC Umpires]]).[https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket-bird-launches-initiative-1406868.html] His final Test was the third Test between India and New Zealand at [[Sardar Patel Stadium]], [[Ahmedabad]], in October 1999.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/68/68535.html]

==See also==
* [[List of Test cricket umpires]]
* [[List of One Day International cricket umpires]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6404/statistics_lists.html List of matches] from CricketArchive
*[http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/33060.html Profile] from [[Cricinfo]]

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