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{{Short description|Former Indian cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = C. G. Joshi
| full_name = Chandrasekhar Ganesh Joshi
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1931|8|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai|Bombay]], British India
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = [[Leg spin|Leg break]] and [[googly]]
| club1 = [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1951/52–1955/56}}
| club2 = [[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]]
| year2 = 1957/58–1977/78
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 95{{efn|[[ESPNcricinfo]] credits Joshi with an additional match that he took four wickets in,<ref name="Cricinfo">{{cite web|title=Chandrasekhar Joshi Profile|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/chandrasekhar-joshi-29952|website=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|publisher=[[ESPN Inc.]]|accessdate=18 February 2025}}</ref> as does an article in [[Mid-Day]].<ref name="Mid-Day">{{cite web|author=Murzello, Clayton|date=23 May 2024|title=The world of CG Joshi|url=https://www.mid-day.com/news/opinion/article/the-world-of-cg-joshi-23350634|website=[[Mid-Day]]|accessdate=18 February 2025}}</ref> It is missing from [[CricketArchive]]'s list of his matches, both first-class and other matches.<ref name="CAFC">{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=First-Class Matches played by Chandrasekhar Joshi|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39330/First-Class_Matches.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|accessdate=18 February 2025}}</ref><ref name="CAMisc">{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Miscellaneous Matches played by Chandrasekhar Joshi|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39330/Miscellaneous_Matches.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|accessdate=18 February 2025}}</ref>}}
| runs1 = 1,140
| bat avg1 = 12.95
| 100s/50s1 = 1/2
| top score1 = 104
| deliveries1 = 16,757
| wickets1 = 288
| bowl avg1 = 25.81
| fivefor1 = 11
| tenfor1 = 1
| best bowling1 = 6/39
| catches/stumpings1 = 89/–
| date = 18 February
| year = 2025
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39330/39330.html CricketArchive
}}
'''Chandrasekhar Ganesh Joshi''' (born 30 August 1931) is a retired Indian cricketer. He had a long [[first-class cricket]] career from the 1951–52 season to 1977–78, originally with [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]] and later with [[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]] for 20 seasons. Joshi was a right-handed batter and showed promise in that role with Baroda; with Rajasthan, however, he had greater success as a bowler who specialized in [[leg spin|leg breaks]] and [[googly|googlies]]. ''[[Indian Cricket (annual)|Indian Cricket]]'' named him one of their cricketers of the year in 1966. During his career, he was also a sculptor and was in charge of the fine arts department at [[Mayo College]].

==Early life==
Joshi was born in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] on 30 August 1931.<ref name="CA">{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Chandrasekhar Joshi|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39330/39330.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> In the early 1950s, he attended the [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda|University of Baroda]], with whom he appeared in four matches of the [[Rohinton Baria Trophy]] during his time there.<ref name="CAMisc"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Dossa |first=Anandji |url=https://crickethistory.website/books/1959-60_indian_cricket_field_annual/index.html#692 |title=1959-60 Indian Cricket-Field Annual |editor-last=Rutnagur |editor-first=Dicky |publication-place=Bombay |publication-date=1959 |page=681 |chapter=Who's Who in Indian Cricket}}</ref>

==Career with Baroda==
While still at university, Baroda's senior cricket team included Joshi in their starting eleven for his debut match in a [[Ranji Trophy]] fixture against [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]] on 16 November 1951.<ref name="CAFC"/> His 30 runs led Baroda's first innings, where they were out for 111, and he added 36 in their second. In between, he took his first wicket during Maharashtra's first innings, [[caught|catching and bowling]] [[R. G. Bhadbhade]], and added a second later in the match, clean bowling Maharashtra's captain, [[Madhusudan Rege]], during their second innings.<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Maharashtra v Baroda in 1951/52|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20006.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref>

The following season, with Baroda taking on [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]] in the Ranji Trophy, Joshi scored both his first [[century (cricket)|century]] (104 runs in the first innings) and first half-century (an [[not out|unbeaten]] 56 in the second innings).<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Baroda v Gujarat in 1952/53|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20453.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> These proved to be his two highest scores as a [[first-class cricket]]er.<ref name="CA"/>{{efn|The only other half-century Joshi would record would be in 1962, when he scored 52 runs in an innings.<ref name="CARvB62">{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Rajasthan v Bengal in 1961/62|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25326.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|accessdate=18 February 2025}}</ref>}}

He appeared in all four matches of Baroda's run to the Ranji Trophy's semi-finals in the 1954/55 season.<ref name="CAFC"/> Despite a poor year as a batter, where he only managed 35 runs in four innings,<ref name="CABt">{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Chandrasekhar Joshi|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39330/f_Batting_by_Season.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> he began showing promise as a bowler, taking nine wickets to lead Baroda that season;<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Bowling for Baroda in Ranji Trophy 1954/55|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1954-55/Baroda_Bowling.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> this included a six-wicket haul against Maharashtra.<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Baroda v Maharashtra in 1954/55|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21443.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> Following a single match for Baroda during the next season,<ref name="CAFC"/> Joshi took time away from cricket to take a [[scholarship]] in [[Italy]].<ref name="Mid-Day"/>

==Career with Rajasthan==
Over two years after his last match with Baroda, Joshi returned to Indian cricket, this time with Rajasthan.<ref name="CAFC"/> Unlike at Baroda, where batting was a primary focus of his, Joshi focused on his leg break deliveries and his googly as a member of Rajasthan.<ref name="Mid-Day"/> He debuted with the side in the 1957/58 Ranji Trophy, starting a tenure as a first-class cricketer with the club that would last until 1977.<ref name="CAFC"/>

Joshi's first year with Rajasthan saw him lead the team with 15 wickets.<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Bowling for Rajasthan in Ranji Trophy 1957/58|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1957-58/Rajasthan_Bowling.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> Before the 1958/59 season, he was chosen to represent the [[Central Zone cricket team|Central Zone]] in a match featuring the touring [[West Indies cricket team|West Indians]], taking [[Conrad Hunte]]'s wicket in both innings in the process.<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Central Zone v West Indians in 1958/59|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23222.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> After another season of 15 wickets in 1959/60,<ref name="CABl">{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=First-Class Bowling in Each Season by Chandrasekhar Joshi|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39330/f_Bowling_by_Season.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> Joshi was limited to seven matches over the next three years,<ref name="CABt"/> with a combined ten wickets in those seasons;<ref name="CABl"/> during the 1961-62 season, however, he did manage his only half-century with Rajasthan.<ref name="CARvB62"/>

A return to form started in the 1963/64 season, where he took at least ten wickets in a year over eight of the next nine seasons. Joshi reached his peak bowling totals in 1965/66, when he took a career-best 30 wickets at an average of 23.86.<ref name="CABl"</> For his efforts in that season, the 1966 Indian Cricket annual named him one of their five cricketers of the year.<ref name="Mid-Day"/>

Joshi appeared in his only [[Irani Cup]] match in 1968,<ref name="CAFC"/> when he was called to the Rest of India squad to replace an injured [[Vaman Kumar]].<ref name="Mid-Day"/> In the match, he took a [[five-wicket haul]] in the first innings against defending Ranji Trophy champion [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]], en route to his side winning by over 100 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Bombay v Rest of India in 1968/69|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/29/29769.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> Continuing to be one of Rajasthan's most useful bowlers, he recorded his lowest season average to that point in the 1971/72 season, with 21 wickets at a 17.19 average.<ref name="CABl"/>

During a quarter-final defeat against [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]] in the 1974/75 season, the now-44-year-old Joshi recorded his best bowling totals in both a single innings and match when he took six wickets for 39 runs in the first innings and took 4 for 34 in the second for his only career occurrence of recording ten wickets in a match.<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=Rajasthan v Delhi in 1974/75|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34946.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> Overall, he recorded 19 wickets in his three matches of that season at an average of 9.31,<ref name="CABl"/> the lowest of any Indian cricketer that season with a minimum of 15 wickets taken.<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=First-class Bowling in India for 1974/75|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/Seasonal_Averages/IND/1974-75_f_Bowling_by_Average.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> He ended his career with three matches in the 1975/76 season and, after not appearing the following year, two matches in the 1977/78 campaign.<ref name="CAFC"/> Overall, he ended his Rajasthan stint with 228 wickets, 654 runs, and 67 catches in 69 matches with the club.<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Chandrasekhar Joshi|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39330/f_Batting_by_Team.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Chandrasekhar Joshi|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39330/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|website=[[CricketArchive]]|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Joshi has two children, a boy and a girl, from a marriage that ended in 2022 when his wife died from [[COVID-19]].<ref name="Mid-Day"/>

During his time on the Rajasthan cricket team, Joshi was also in charge of the [[fine art]]s department at [[Ajmer]]'s Mayo College.<ref name="Mid-Day"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |url=https://archive.org/details/statesofindiancr0000guha/mode/2up |title=The states of Indian cricket : anecdotal histories |date=2008 |publisher=Ranikhet : Permanent Black |isbn=978-81-7824-108-1 |pages=145–146 |chapter=Princely India: The Living}}</ref> Additionally, he has a career as a [[sculpture|sculptor]]; in 2024, [[Mid-Day]] columnist Clayton Murzello commented on him being "award-winning" in that field.<ref name="Mid-Day"/>

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