Bharath Reddy (; born 12 November 1954) is a former Indian international cricketer.

Born

Bharat Reddy was born at 12 November 1954 in

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, India. He was a wicket-keeper of team India for 4 test and 3 ODI.

Cricket career

Tour of England

Reddy toured England with an Indian Schools XI in July and August 1973, scoring a century against a Midland Counties schools team. He made his first-class debut a few weeks later for Vazir Sultan Tobacco Colts XI at the age of 18, captaining a team of nine other first-class debutants. In quick succession he then kept wicket for Rest of India in the Irani Cup and for South Zone in the

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before making his

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debut for

, all before the end of 1973. Before the 1973–74 season was out he had also played two first-class matches for an Indian XI against Rest of India, and made a short tour of

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with an Indian team as the reserve wicket-keeper to Pochiah Krishnamurthy, playing in the match against Sri Lanka Board President's XI. Neither Reddy nor Krishnamurthy succeeded

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when he retired from

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shortly afterwards, however, the selectors preferring

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. Reddy kept wicket in one of the three matches India played against

in 1975–76, and as Kirmani's deputy he toured Australia in 1977–78 and Pakistan in 1978–79. He got his chance in Test cricket when Kirmani was dropped and Reddy toured England as the first-choice wicket-keeper in 1979. He played in all four Tests in a series that India lost one-nil, but was not impressive. Reddy toured Australia and

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as Kirmani's deputy in 1980–81 without playing a Test.

International career

He played three

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s between 1978 and 1981, against Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand. His best season with the bat was 1981–82, when he made 326 runs at 32.60 with three fifties, including his highest career score of 88 against

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. He captained Tamil Nadu from 1982–83 to 1985–86. Against Kerala in 1982–83 he took six catches in the second innings and eight in the match.

After cricket

After retiring from cricket, Reddy worked for Chemplast. He also helped to run cricket training camps in Chennai, where he discovered Indian Test players

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and

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Personal life

He is married to Gitanjali Reddy, with whom he has two daughters—Deepti and Sriya. The younger daughter,

Sriya Reddy Sriya Reddy is an Indian actress, television presenter and video jockey who primarily works in Tamil cinema, Tamil and Telugu cinema. Born to former Indian test cricketer Bharath Reddy (cricketer), Bharath Reddy, Sriya worked as a successful vi ...

, is an actress.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reddy, Bharat India One Day International cricketers India Test cricketers Indian cricketers Tamil Nadu cricketers South Zone cricketers Indian Universities cricketers Vazir Sultan Tobacco cricketers Cricketers at the 1979 Cricket World Cup 1954 births Living people Cricketers from Chennai Wicket-keepers