he did not get further opportunities at international level. He played his last ODI in 2002 against Zimbabwe at Guwahati. Coaching career Bharadwaj retired from all forms of cricket on 4 November 2006. He took up coaching after retirement and is a qualified level three coach certified from National Cricket Academy, Bangalore. He was a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore squad in the first three seasons of the Indian Premier League as an assistant coach. Bharadwaj appeared on a Kannada television channel as part of a Cricket panel as an analyst. He was the fielding coach of the Oman cricket team along with his teammate Sunil Joshi who is spin bowling coach. Bharadwaj was a part of the Karnataka first class team as a coach and also was the assistant coach for RCB for three years. He was a managing committee member of KSCA for one term when cricketers looked after administration. He has been on panel discussion on tv9 and news9 for 10 years. Achievements Man of the Series in the four nation tournament- LG Cup in Kenya (1999-2000) National record for the highest number of runs in a calendar year in the Ranji Trophy in the year 1998-99 Winner of Ranji Trophy 4 times 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2002 Member of a Irani Trophy winning team 1996, 1998 Scored 16 first class hundreds in nearly 100 first class matches Scored more than 5500 runs in first class cricket References External links 1975 births Living people Indian cricketers India One Day International cricketers India Test cricketers Karnataka cricketers Jharkhand cricketers South Zone cricketers Cricketers from Bangalore Indian cricket coaches Coaches of the Oman national cricket team Indian cricket commentators Madhva Brahmins