Padmanabh Govind "Nana" Joshi pronunciationⓘ (7 October 1926 – 8 January 1987) was an Indian cricketer who kept wicket for India in 12 Test matches between 1951 and 1960.
[1] He worked for Standard Vacuum and Hindustan Petroleum in Pune before dying from liver cancer in 1987.
Joshi played cricket at a time when India had three or four wicket keepers of the same class.
Joshi was replaced by Madhav Mantri for the second Test, who in turn gave way to Probir Sen in the third.
Joshi was picked for the fourth and then discarded in favour of Sen for the final Test.
In a match in the Pune summer league in 1957–58, he had a hand in all ten dismissals in addition to scoring 68 out of 117 all out.
In the fifth over of the first day, he dropped Hanif Mohammad off Ramakant Desai, 'a simple catch', when the batsman was 12.