Uday Joshi
Personal information
Full name
Udaykumar Chaganlal Joshi
Born (1944-12-23) 23 December 1944
Rajkot, British Raj
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
19701974Sussex
1968/691979/80Gujarat
1967/68Railways (India)
1965/661982/83Saurashtra
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 186 18
Runs scored 2,287 57
Batting average 10.04 11.40
100s/50s 1/7 /
Top score 100* 19*
Balls bowled 38,978 681
Wickets 557 15
Bowling average 29.08 25.20
5 wickets in innings 34
10 wickets in match 3
Best bowling 6/33 4/22
Catches/stumpings 78/ 2/
Source: Cricinfo, 20 December 2013

Udaykumar Chaganlal Joshi (born 23 December 1944, in Rajkot) is an Indian former cricketer active from 1965 to 1983 who played for Sussex.

He appeared in 186 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman who bowled off breaks. He scored 2,287 runs with a highest score of 100 not out and took 557 wickets with a best performance of six for 33.[1] He also played for South Shields CC in 1977 and probably minor county cricket for Durham CCC.

In 2012, Joshi was convicted of having sexually molested a 13-year-old boy in Northern Ireland in 1979 and was jailed for six years. He was also barred from working with children in the future. At the time of his conviction, Joshi was a 67-year-old married father of two.[2]

References

  1. Uday Joshi at CricketArchive
  2. "Cricket in the Courts", Wisden 2013, p. 203.


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