Sunil Bandacharya Joshi (; born 6 June 1970) is an Indian former

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er 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.

Early life

Sunil Joshi was born in a Hindu Deshastha Madhwa Brahmin family on 6 June 1970 in

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. He used to travel to Hubballi each morning for practice, and then returned to his native town of

in time for school.

Domestic career

At state level he played for

throughout his career. In the 1995–96 season of the

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he achieved the impressive double of scoring 500 runs and capturing 50 wickets. He also played briefly for the

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during the 2004 Minor Counties Cricket Championship. Joshi represented the

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in the 2008 and 2009 season of the

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and was under contract till 2010.

International career

Joshi played both

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and

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cricket for

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

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. His most famous bowling performance for India came in an ODI match against

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

Coaching career

Joshi has coached the Hyderabad cricket team and more recently has been a coach for

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. Joshi tasted early success when his Jammu & Kashmir team beat the Ranji giants

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, in the prelimnary rounds of

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. Earlier, he had coached his team to the Ranji Trophy Super League Quarter-finals in his debut season as coach from Plate Division. In December 2015, Joshi was named the spin bowling coach of the Oman cricket team ahead of the

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played in India in March 2016. In July 2016, Joshi was named as head coach of

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next two

season. He replace his former state teammate Sanath Kumar as the head coach

. In August 2017, Joshi was named as the spin bowling consultant of Bangladesh cricket team. In July 2019, he was appointed as the spin bowling coach of the

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on a short-term basis. He was appointed as spin bowling coach for Kings XI Punjab

Cricket administration

The

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(BCCI) on 4 March 2020 announced the appointment of Joshi as the new chief selector of Indian men's cricket team.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Joshi, Sunil 1970 births Living people India One Day International cricketers India Test cricketers Indian cricketers Karnataka cricketers Royal Challengers Bangalore cricketers South Zone cricketers People from Gadag-Betageri Indian cricket coaches Coaches of the Oman national cricket team Cricketers from Karnataka Recipients of the Rajyotsava Award 2005