Career
He is a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper. He made his ODI debut on January 19, 2002 against England. Ratra was selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.
When Ratra made an innings of 115 not out in 2002 against the West Indies, he was the youngest wicketkeeper to make a century in Tests, and only the second Indian wicketkeeper to make an overseas century.
After he was injured in 2002, he was replaced by Parthiv Patel, the youngest ever Test wicketkeeper. Ratra has since fallen behind Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik and Patel in the pecking order.
He played in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy for the Goa. In July 2015 Ratra announced his retirement from cricket.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.
He also played in 89 List A games in which scored 1381 runs at 22.63.
As of 15 October 2010.