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Place of Birth: Vadodara, Gujarat, India
About Nana Joshi
- Padmanabh Govind "Nana" Joshipronunciation (7 October 1926 – 8 January 1987) was a cricket player who kept wicket for India in Test cricket. Joshi was born in Baroda, Gujarat, India in 1926.
- He first gained attention as a cricket player when he scored 100 notout for Central Province Governor's XI against the touring Commonwealth XI in addition to dismissing six batsmen.
- This earned him a place in two unofficial Tests against the same team.
- Joshi played cricket at a time when India had three or four wicket keepers of the same class.
- In a career that lasted for nearly ten years, Joshi played only twelve Test matches. He made his Test debut against England in the first Test at Delhi in 1951-52.
- In the first innings, he caught two and brilliantly stumped two others, but his errors in the second helped England to save the match.
- Joshi was replaced by Madhav Mantri for the second Test, who in turn gave way to Probir Sen in the third.
- Joshi was picked for the fourth and discarded in favour of Sen for the final Test.
- Here Sen stumped five batsmen and Joshi found himself out of the team to tour England in 1952. Writing in 1985, N.
- S.
- Ramaswami remembered that Joshi "impressed as a dapper and neat performer.
- Between the overs he walked from wicket to wicket with a certain jauntiness.
- He seemed to wear the gloves as a lady might at a fashionable ball." Yet in his opinion, Joshi came lower down in the hierarchy of contemporary wicket keepers.
- Sen and Mantri occupied the top rung, Naren Tamhane came next, followed by Joshi. Joshi played in four Tests in the West Indies tour of 1952-53 and three Tests in England in 1959.
- In a match in the Pune summer league in 1957-58, he had a hand in all ten dismissals in addition to scoring 68 out of 117 all out.He was again selected for India against Pakistan for the Bombay Test of 1960-61.
- Here his career came to an abrupt end.
- On the fifth over of the first day, he dropped Hanif Mohammad off Ramakant Desai, 'a simple catch', when the batsman was 12.
- Hanif went on score 160.
- "If ever a catch marred or made a series", wrote Vijay Hazare, "it was this one." Later in the match he made his career best score of 52* and added 149 for ninth wicket with Desai, five runs short of the world record at the time and still an Indian ninth wicket record.
- But the selectors did not pardon him and he never played another Test.Joshi captained Maharashtra team between 1960–61 and 1962-63.
- He also served in the Maharashtra cricket selection committee.
- His benefit match in Sangli in 1974 earned him 1,25,000 rupees.
- He dismissed nine batsmen against Gujarat in 1959-60 which equalled the then Indian record.Joshi's father died when he was eight.
- His mother brought the young Joshi and his brother to Poona where she brought them up under great hardships.
- She maintained the family by sewing and providing food for students while Joshi used to clean the utensils and serve food.
- She supported Joshi until he completed his college education and got a job.
- Joshi had his schooling at Bhave School and then went to S.P.
- Bhau college and Wadia College in Pune where he took a B.A.
- degree.
- He worked for Standard Vacuum and Hindustan Petroleum in Pune, Maharashtra, India before dying from liver cancer in 1987.
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