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Sunil Joshi

Sunil Bandacharya Joshi (pronunciation; born 6 June 1970) is an Indian former cricketer and former selector of the India cricket team. He played as an all-rounder who bowled slow left arm spin and batted left-handed. Sunil Joshi was appointed as chief selector of the senior men's cricket team on 4 March 2020. He was a part of the squad which finished as runners-up at the 2000 ICC Champions Trophy.

Sunil Joshi was born in a Hindu Madhwa Brahmin Family on 6 June 1970 in Gadag, Karnataka, India. He used to travel 40 miles (64 km) to Hubballi each morning for practice, and then returned to his native town of Gadag in time for school.

At state level he played for Karnataka throughout his career. In the 1995–96 season of the Ranji Trophy he achieved the impressive double of scoring 500 runs and capturing 50 wickets. He also played briefly for the Bedfordshire County Cricket Club in England during the 2004 Minor Counties Cricket Championship.

Joshi represented the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2008 and 2009 seasons of the Indian Premier League and was under contract till 2010.

Joshi played both Test and One Day International cricket for India between 1996 and 2001. His usual role in the team was to provide runs from the lower order and act as a secondary spin bowler to support the likes of Anil Kumble. Despite being a regular in the national team during this period, he was not selected for the 1999 Cricket World Cup.[citation needed]

His most famous bowling performance for India came in an ODI match against South Africa in the LG Cup in 1999. He returned figures of 10–6–6–5 helping India to victory in that match. Three years later, the performance was rated in the Wisden 100 as the seventh-best ODI bowling performance to that date.[citation needed]

On 21 June 2012, Joshi formally announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket.

Joshi has coached the Hyderabad cricket team and more recently has been a coach for Jammu & Kashmir cricket team. Joshi tasted early success when his Jammu & Kashmir team beat the Ranji giants Mumbai, in the preliminary rounds of 2014–15 Ranji Trophy. Earlier, he had coached his team to the Ranji Trophy Super League Quarter-finals in his debut season as coach from Plate Division.

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