Sunderam was a left-handed opening batsman who played for Delhi between the 1970/71 and 1980/81 seasons and one season for Tamil Nadu in 1973/74. He was the leading run-getter of the 1977–78 Ranji Trophy with 608 runs at an average of 86.85 including three centuries.[1] His personal best score of 177 came in the 1977–78 Irani Cup for Rest of India against Bombay.[2] He was part of the Delhi team in its back-to-back Ranji wins in 1978/79 and 1979/80. His last first class match was for Delhi in the 1980–81 Irani Cup against Rest of India which Delhi won on first innings lead.[3]
Sunderam was a team manager for India in the 1990s.[4][5] He became a member of the ten-member selection committee of Delhi in 2002[6] and a member of the five-member Delhi selection panel in 2005.[7] He was also the pitch committee chairman for BCCI.[8] He was Delhi District Cricket Association's curator, a position he quit in 2014.[9] As of December 2015, he is the executive secretary of the Shahid Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Greater Noida.[10]