Chandroth Kalyadan Bhaskaran (5 May 194121 November 2020) was an Indian former first-class

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er who played for

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and

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. He represented

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in an unofficial Test match against

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

in 1965. He was regarded as "one of the country's leading fast bowlers in the sixties."

Life and career

Born in

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(now Thalassery), Bhaskaran played as a right-arm medium-fast

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bowler. He made his first-class debut for Kerala in December 1957 at the age of 16. In January 1965, he played for India in an unofficial Test match against Ceylon at Ahmedabad. Bhaskaran switched to Madras during his later career, and was part of the Madras team that finished runners-up in the

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. In the final against Bombay, he scored 76

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in the first innings and took 4/68 in Bombay's first innings. He appeared in a total of 42 first-class matches and took 106 wickets. Bhaskaran worked as a doctor in

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after his playing career, specializing in sports medicine, and treated several professional athletes from different nations. In 2006, he started the "Mission Gold for India" company to train Indian athletes for the

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. Bhaskaran's brother C. K. Vijayan also played first-class cricket for Kerala. He died on 21 November 2020 in

at the age of 79.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bhaskaran, C. K. 1941 births 2020 deaths Indian cricketers Kerala cricketers Tamil Nadu cricketers South Zone cricketers Indian Universities cricketers People from Thalassery Cricketers from Kerala