praveen kumar Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
praveen kumar is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Praveenkumar Sakat Singh
Born
October 02, 1986, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Age
37 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 6 | 68 | 10 | 119 |
Inn | 10 | 33 | 3 | 59 |
Runs | 149 | 292 | 7 | 340 |
Avg | 14.9 | 13.9 | 2.33 | 8.95 |
SR | 93.71 | 88.22 | 43.75 | 108.28 |
HS | 40 | 54 | 6 | 34 |
NO | 0 | 12 | 0 | 21 |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 21 | 25 | 0 | 22 |
6s | 5 | 7 | 0 | 17 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 6 | 68 | 10 | 119 |
Inn | 11 | 67 | 10 | 119 |
Balls | 1611 | 3242 | 156 | 2524 |
Runs | 697 | 2774 | 193 | 3251 |
Wkt | 27 | 77 | 8 | 90 |
BBI | 106 / 5 | 31 / 4 | 14 / 2 | 18 / 2 |
BBM | 169 / 7 | 31 / 4 | 14 / 2 | 18 / 2 |
Eco | 2.6 | 5.13 | 7.42 | 7.73 |
Avg | 25.81 | 36.03 | 24.12 | 36.12 |
5W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Air India
- Gujarat Lions
- India Maharajas
- India Red
- Kings XI Punjab
- Mumbai T20
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Texas Chargers
- Uttar Pradesh
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Praveen rose into instant stardom with 10 wickets in just 4 matches at the fag end of the CB Trophy in Australia in 2008. This also included two 4-wicket hauls helping India clinch the tri-nation tournament. His deceptive pace along with the ability to swing the new ball caused a lot of consternation amongst batsmen. His performance helped him grab a IPL contract worth US $ 300,000 with the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Praveen had a great IPL campaign with the Royal Challengers and also managed a hat-trick against the Rajasthan Royals in the 2010 season. He was bought by the Kings XI Punjab in the 2011 auctions for a whopping US $ 800,000.
Praveen has been one of the leading strike bowlers for Uttar Pradesh with 199 wickets from just 44 FC matches. It has been no wonder that he has led India through several ODI's abroad where his swing and seam bowling gets the required assistance from the surfaces. He was named in the provisional squad for the 2011 WC held in the sub-continent but had to pull out with an elbow injury. His one day performances were rewarded with a test call up for India's twin tours of West Indies and England. In conditions suited to his style of bowling, Praveen ended up with 27 wickets in the 6 Test matches that he played to emerge as one of the most successful Indian bowlers.
Praveen has already shown that he has it with him to be the lead force in the future. Off-field issues have dogged him in the past though. On May 2008, he was accused of having assaulted a doctor in Meerut. He was also charged with initiating a verbal and physical attack on a group of fans during India's tour of England in 2011. Though he was not picked for Tests, he continued to play the ODI format. He also travelled with the side to Australia and Bangladesh (Asia Cup) but lack of performances forced the selectors to ignore him. He has not managed to get into the national side since 2012 and continues to feature in the domestic circuit.
Unfortunately, he found no buyers in the 2014 IPL auctions and went unsold.
By Pradeep Krishnamurthy
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Praveen Kumar had everything to become a domestic cricket legend: limited pace but ability to swing the ball both ways, persistence to bowl long spells, and an almost intuitive knowledge of how to take wickets on unresponsive Indian wickets. But he took his limited pace and remarkably smart application of that ability to a higher level. He was India's best bowler during a disastrous Test tour of England in 2011 - his name is on the Lord's honours board - and was remarkably miserly in ODI cricket. Among his best achievements is the match-winning spell he bowled against Australia in the final of the 2007-08 CB Series.
Praveen is from the western part of Uttar Pradesh, which produces, what he called, "strong, tough boys." He was in his late teens when local coach Sanjay Rastogi pulled him into mainstream club cricket and by the time he was 19, he had graduated to playing first-class cricket. Playing party to his quick rise was his ability to swing the ball, for which he was called "jaadugar" [magician] back home in Meerut.
In the 2005-06 Ranji Trophy, which was his first season and also UP's championship season, Praveen was easily the player of the year: 41 wickets and 386 runs, four five-fors, one ten-for, and three half-centuries. Whenever UP were in trouble, they could turn to Praveen, and sure enough something would happen. His consistency - 90 wickets in his first two first-class seasons - got him into reckoning for the national side.
Between 2009 and the end of 2010, he was a key element in India's pace battery, with Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra. He could have been a World Cup winner had he not broken down with injury and missed the 2011 tournament. Fitness issues had interfered with his first-class career as well, but he was a regular fixture for UP in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 Ranji seasons and even captained them for four games. Praveen had been part of four IPL teams before he was bought by the new franchise Gujarat Lions in the 2016 auction for INR 3.5 crores.
Praveen is also known for having a bit of a short fuse. He was suspended from the Vijay Hazare Trophy in 2013 for using foul language against a batsman. He'd used profane language against fans in the heat of the moment too - a notable incident being at the nets in Australia in 2012, although he said he was driven to such extents because "that guy was going after Rohit [Sharma] non-stop, mother, sister everything." Praveen has since grown wiser and tries to avoid the problems that "do minute ka gussa" [two minutes of anger] can lead to.