Praveen Kumar

Praveenkumar Sakat Singh

Praveenkumar Singh

India India

Overview

Full Name Praveenkumar Sakat Singh
Age 38y 51d
Born Thursday, October 2, 1986, India
Batting Style Right Handed
Bowling Style Right-arm medium
Playing Role Bowler

Biography

Perhaps its Praveen Kumar’s dual ability to take wickets and restrict an outflow of runs that has made the UP-born bowler a regular in limited overs cricket for the Indian cricket team, since his debut in late 2007. Unlike teammates Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma, Kumar’s forte is variation coupled with precision in line and length, depending purely on natural bowling speed than aiming to exert harder for additional pace.

Praveen’s career highlight would easily be two bowling spells with 4-fors Down Under against Sri Lanka and Australia, both in 2008, in merely his 3rd and 5th ODI outings. Tidy performances for Bengaluru in the Indian T20 League added to his growing repute. As a dangerous pinch-hitter lower down the order, it’s a rare all-round combination once reminiscent in Robin Singh - Kumar’s forerunner in the all-rounder department. The latter, like Kumar now, was regarded as an ODI specialist. For the immediate future at least, that status quo doesn’t look like it will budge for Praveen Kumar but the UP lad will do all that he can to change that.

Debut
India vs West Indies at Jamaica - Monday, June 20, 2011

Batting

Matches 6
Innings 10
Runs 149
100's - 50's 0 - 0
Sixes - Fours 5 - 21
Average 14.90
Strike Rate 93.71
Highest Score (vs England, 10/08/2011) 40

Bowling

Matches 6
Innings 11
Overs 268.3
Wickets 27
Economy Rate 2.59
Five-Wicket Haul Innings 1
Ten-Wicket Haul Innings 0
Best Figures (vs England, 21/07/2011) 5/106

Fielding

Catches 2
Stumpings 0
Run Outs 0

Career Wickets

27
21
14
7
Wickets
Years