Leonard Baichan (born 12 May 1946) is a former West Indian international cricketer who played as a batsman. Baichan featured in three Test matches from 1975 to 1976, scoring a century on his debut. He also scored over 4,000 runs at an average of 51.18 with 13 centuries and 23 half centuries in his first class career. Career Leonard Baichan was born Ganesh Baichan Dhanraj in Rose Hall Village in Berbice, Guyana (then British Guiana) around the same area where Rohan Kanhai, Alvin Kallicharran, Basil Butcher and Joe Solomon were brought up. He grew up in No.2 Village, East Canje. Local cricket Baichan had a bad start in grade cricket making no runs against Port Mourant and Blairmont in his first two matches. Thereafter he scored consistently and in 1967 won the man of the match in the first inter-club limited overs tournament. He was called for the trials against the M.C.C. in 1967-68. It was only after this that he made his first class cricket debut for Guyana in 1968 and Berbice in 1969. Guyana had a batting line up of Roy Fredericks, Steve Camacho, Kanhai, Clive Lloyd and Kallicharran, and Baichan found it difficult to break into it. After Lloyd and Kanhai went away to play for Rest of the World in Australia in 1971-72, he began to get more chances. He developed a defensive batting style and attitude that complemented the aggressive batting of the others. Typical was his innings of 96 in 444 minutes for the West Indies Board President's XI against the New Zealanders in 1971–72. Facing a score of 486, Baichan started the third day of 6*. At lunch, he was 28* in 152 minutes, his batting "becoming tedious" and had "not a stroke to remember" according to D. J. Cameron. He progressed to 80* in 330 minutes at close of play. On the fourth day he was, according to Cameron, "an utter bore," and "he ground on" until yorked by Bev Congdon. Baichan scored 216* and 102 v Demerara in 1973-74 and played an even more significant innings against the touring M.C.C. in the following January. MCC made 511 for 4 on the back of a career best 261* by Geoff Boycott. President's XI made 164, Baichan top score of 49, and were set an impossible target in the second innings. Baichan batted eight hours to score 139* and avoided a defeat, including