Nandan Hanmant Phadnis (born 18 August 1964 in Pune) is an Indian cricketer who played first class from 1986 to 1992 and list A cricket from 1986 to 1996 at the Ranji Trophy and the Wills Trophy for the Maharashtra cricket team as a wicket-keeper and batsman.[1][2] Since 1998, he has served as an umpire for list A and Twenty20 cricket.[3][4]
A cricket coach with the National Cricket Academy,[5] he was appointed coach for the cricket teams under the jurisdiction of the Goa Cricket Association in 2016,[6][7] having previously coached Unmukt Chand in batting.[8] In 2023, he was appointed the consulting coach for the Nepal national cricket team.[9] In 2021, he unsuccessfully contested to be appointed the head coach for the Mumbai cricket team with the Mumbai Cricket Association, losing the position to Amol Muzumdar.[10][11]
A graduate of the University of Pune in 1984,[12] he previously worked for Air India, representing the airline in corporate cricketing leagues in India and Hong Kong.[13][14] He has also worked as a cricket commentator on All India Radio and NDTV.[15][16] In 2022, he translated the festschrift of Dnyaneshwar Agashe,[17] and the biography of Chandrashekhar Agashe from Marathi into English.[18]