Profile
Praveen Kumar is a man with many abilities. He is fast-medium pacer, a hard-hitting batsman and an excellent ground fielder. His tally of 90 wickets in his first two domestic seasons earned him a call into the India A side. He excelled for India A with the bat and ball and was eventually picked into the Indian team. He took 10 wickets in his first five matches, including a four-for against Australia. He lacks the pace of a genuine fast bowler but makes up for that with controlled movement in the air and off the pitch, on both sides of the wicket. In many ways, he is like a fast-spinner and on wickets which assist swing, he can be deadly and deceptive. It’s ironical that India now posses a pool of four or five regular seamers and Praveen often has to sit out to make way for a genuine paceman when the wickets don’t offer him support. In recent times, he has also shown a keen interest in batting – a trait which was well exhibited at the second season of the IPL, where his team, Bangalore Royal Challengers, came runners up.
Statistics
Show:
| |
Matches |
Innings |
Runs |
NO |
Avg. |
SR |
100's |
50's |
| ODI |
31 |
16 |
183 |
5 |
16.64 |
90.15 |
0 |
1 |
| T20 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
0 |
6 |
60 |
0 |
0 |
| |
Matches |
Innings |
Balls |
Runs |
Wickets |
BBI |
BBM |
Avg. |
Econ. |
4w |
5w |
10w |
Extras |
| ODI |
31 |
31 |
1496 |
1246 |
37 |
4/31 |
/ |
33.68 |
5 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
43 |
| T20 |
1 |
1 |
12 |
15 |
1 |
1/15 |
/ |
15 |
7.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
24 |
| |
Catches |
Stumpings |
Runouts |
| ODI |
8 |
0 |
2 |
| T20 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Career
Span:
- ODI:
- 2007-2009
- T20:
- 2008-2008
- ODI
-
- Debut:
- India Vs Pakistan at Sawai Mansingh Stadium (Chogan Stadium), Jaipur - Nov 18, 2007
- Last played:
- India Vs Australia at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Guwahati - Nov 08, 2009
- T20
-
- Debut:
- India Vs Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne - Victoria - Feb 01, 2008
- Last played:
- India Vs Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne - Victoria - Feb 01, 2008
