Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Cricket information
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs
Matches 58 1
Runs scored 167 11
Batting average 4.07 -
100s/50s -/- -/-
Top score 22 11*
Balls bowled 15963 56
Wickets 242 3
Bowling average 30.5 12.00
5 wickets in innings 16 -
10 wickets in match 2 n/a
Best bowling 8/79 3/36
Catches/stumpings 25/- -/-
Source: [1], 4 February 2006

Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar (informally Chandra; Kannada: ಭಗವತ್ ಸುಬ್ರಹ್ಮಣ್ಯ ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ್, About this sound pronunciation ; born 17 May 1945) is an Indian former cricketer who specialised in leg spin. Considered amongst the top echelon of leg-spinners, Chandrasekhar along with E.A.S. Prasanna, Bishen Singh Bedi and Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan constituted the Indian spin quartet that dominated spin bowling in the 1960s and 1970s. Viv Richards said in an interview that Chandrasekhar and Dennis Lillee were the most difficult bowlers he had faced.


He was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1972 and won the Wisden's "Best bowling performance of the century" award in 2002, for his 6 wickets for 38 runs against England at the Oval in 1971.[1]

Chandrasekhar had minimal batting skills, finishing with an Test average of 4.07.[2] He was given a special Gray-Nicholls bat during the 1977-78 Australian tour with a hole in it to commemorate the four ducks he scored, and he has 23 Test ducks to his credit. He also holds the dubious distinction of scoring fewer runs (167) off his bat than wickets (242) taken in Test cricket;[2] the only other cricketer with this distinction over a significant Test career is New Zealand fast bowler Chris Martin.

Attributed to him is a famous umpire-directed quote, made during a day of bad decisions in New Zealand after several of his LBW appeals were given not-out: "I know he is bowled, but is he out?"[3][4]

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  1. ^ "This is my finest hour: Kapil Dev". The Sportstar Vol. 25 No. 31. 8 March 2002. Retrieved 2006-12-06. 
  2. ^ a b Frindall, Bill (2009). Ask Bearders. BBC Books. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4. 
  3. ^ "India's Aussie tour: Sissy Australians and dumb umpires", Merinews, 6 Jan 2008 
  4. ^ Dilip Vengsarkar (23 October 1999), "Nothing to Crowe about", Rediff 

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