Manoj Prabhakar

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Manoj Prabhakar
Cricket information
Batting style Right-handed batsman
Bowling style Right-arm Medium Pace
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs
Matches 39 130
Runs scored 1600 1858
Batting average 32.65 24.12
100s/50s 1/9 2/11
Top score 120 106
Balls bowled 7475 6360
Wickets 96 157
Bowling average 37.30 28.87
5 wickets in innings 3 2
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling 6/92 5/33
Catches/stumpings 20/0 27/0
Source: [1], 23 January 2006

Manoj Prabhakar <phonos file="Manoj_Prabhakar.ogg">pronunciation</phonos> (born 15 April 1963) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and a lower-order batsman who also opened the innings sometimes for the Indian cricket team until his retirement in 1996.

Prabhakar took 96 wickets in Test cricket, 157 wickets in One Day Internationals, and over 385 first class wickets playing for Delhi. He has also played for Durham. Prabhakar is remembered for his bowling which was his strongest suit; using slower balls, and outswingers and opening the bowling. He was also a useful lower-order batsman and a defensive opener.

Career

As a Player

Prabhakar regularly opened India's batting and the bowling in the same match, one of the few players to do so consistently at international level. He accomplished this 45 times in ODIs and 20 times in Tests, more than any other player in both cases.[1][2]

Aged 32, Prabhakar played his last ODI against Sri Lanka in the 1996 Cricket World Cup in New Delhi. He struggled to bowl well in the match and had to bowl off-spin in the last two overs.[3] The crowd booed him off the ground.[3] After 1996 World Cup, he was not selected for the Indian team's tour of England and retired.

A graph showing Prabhakar's test career bowling statistics and how they have varied over time.

As a Coach

Prabhakar served as the Delhi cricket team's bowling coach and as the head coach of the Rajasthan cricket team.[4] In November 2011, he was sacked as the coach of Delhi for speaking against the management and the team in media.[5] In December 2015, he was named as bowling coach of Afghanistan cricket team ahead of 2016 ICC World Twenty20 that to be played in India in March 2016.[6]

Controversies

In 1999, Prabhakar participated in Tehelka's expose of match-fixing, but was himself charged of involvement and subsequently banned by the BCCI from playing cricket.[7] He was dismissed from his coaching role with the Delhi cricket team in 2011 after he publicly criticized the players and selectors.[8]

Personal life

Prabhakar joined the Congress party and unsuccessfully contested election to the Indian Parliament from Delhi in 2004. Prabhakar is married to actress Farheen, who has done the films Jaan Tere Naam and Kalaignan. He lives at Delhi, with their two children, Raahil and Manavansh.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Only instances in the first and second innings are included. Records / Test matches / All-round records / Opening the batting and bowling in the same match – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Records / One-Day Internationals / All-round records / Opening the batting and bowling in the same match – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Prabhakar tipped to become Delhi coach
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Prabhakar named Afghanistan bowling coach
  7. ↑ CricInfo report
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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