Udaykumar Chaganlal Joshi (born 23 December 1944, in Rajkot) is an Indian former cricketer active from 1965 to 1983 who played for Sussex.
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| Full name | Udaykumar Chaganlal Joshi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 December 1944 Rajkot, British Raj | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1970–1974 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1968/69–1979/80 | Gujarat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967/68 | Railways (India) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1965/66–1982/83 | Saurashtra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 20 December 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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]