He is appointed by the BCCI as the National Selector of the Indian Men's Cricket team in September 2024.
Ratra then fell behind Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik and Patel in the pecking order.
Ratra was part of the Indian Under-19 squad which won the Youth World Cup in 2000, and following training sessions with the National Cricket Academy he became one of six wicketkeepers that India would attempt to integrate into the squad in the space of 12 months.
He played 99 first-class matches in which he scored 4029 runs at an average of 30.29 including eight hundreds and a double-century.
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