Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Legbreak | |
| 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 | 29.74 | 12.00 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 16 | - |
| 10 wickets in match | 2 | N/A |
| Best bowling | 8/79 | 3/36 |
| Catches/stumpings | 25/- | -/- |
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Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar (Chandra) pronunciation (born May 17, 1945 in Mysore) is a former Indian cricketer who specialised in leg spin. He is considered amongst the top echelon of leg-spinners. Chandra along with Prasanna, Bedi and Venkat constituted the famed spin quartet that dominated spin bowling in the 1960s and 1970s.
Born and educated in the city of Mysore, Chandra was infatuated with cricket from a very early age. Overcoming a polio attack which withered his right wrist as a child, so that he always used his left arm for throwing, he became one of the most dreaded leg spin bowlers in cricket history. An unorthodox spin bowler with an unusual long run-up, Chandra played in 58 Test matches, and collected 242 wickets in his career. He often bowled at medium pace, substituting his leg break, for he was not a big turner of the ball, for his googly or flipper to devastating effect. He considered Englishman Ken Barrington the hardest to bowl to.
Making his Test debut against England at Mumbai in 1964, his most memorable performance was against England at The Oval on August 23, 1971 where he took six wickets for 38 runs, and helped India to a series win. He often said that he was never able to tell what was going to happen when he bowled and he was as likely to bowl a mediocre ball than a good ball. Of the spin quartet, he was the most likely to bowl an unplayable delivery, and it brought India many laurels including its first victory in Australia.
He was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1972.
On the other side of the coin, Chandrasekhar was an incredibly inept batsman, finishing with an average of 4 and the highest percentage of ducks in Test history. 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. He has 23 ducks to his credit.
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| NAME | Chandrasekhar, Bhagwat Subramanya |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Cricketer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mysore, Karnataka |
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