Full Name Manoj Prabhakar Spouse Sandhya Prabhakar (m. 1986–2008), Farheen Awards Arjuna Award for Cricket | Batting style Right-handed batsman Bowling style Right-arm Medium Pace Children Manavansh Prabhakar , Raahil Prabhakar |
| 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 |
Manoj Prabhakar pronunciation (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.
Contents
- Manoj prabhakar turns emotional as sachin bids adieu to cricket
- Playing career
- After cricket
- Personal life
- References
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.
Manoj prabhakar turns emotional as sachin bids adieu to cricket
Playing career
Prabhakar regularly opened Indias 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.
Aged 32, Prabhakar played his last ODI against Sri Lanka in the 1996 Cricket World Cup in New Delhi. He struggled to bowl well against Sanath Jayasuriya in that match, and had to bowl off-spin in the last two overs. The crowd booed him off the ground.
After 1996 World Cup, he was not selected for the Indian teams tour of England. Prabhakar reacted by publicly criticizing the then-Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin and the Board of Control for Cricket in India and accused Azharuddin of involvement in match-fixing. In 1999, Prabhakar participated in Tehelkas expose of match-fixing, but was himself charged of involvement and subsequently banned by the BCCI from playing cricket.
After cricket
Prabhakar joined the Congress party and unsuccessfully contested election to the Indian Parliament from Delhi in 2004. He re-emerged on the national cricketing scene as a bowling coach and later head coach for the Delhi cricket team. He was dismissed from his coaching role in 2011 after he publicly criticized the team management.
Personal life
Prabhakar is married to actress Farheen,who has done the films Jaan Tere Naam and Kamal Haasan s Kalaignan and lives at Delhi, with their two children, Raahil and Manavansh. Prabhakars father and his 25-year-old son Rohan with Sandhya (his first wife) and Rohans wife stay together completing the family.