Praveen Kumar

Country: India
Date of Birth: October 2, 1986
Place of Birth: Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Batting Style: Right Handed
Bowling Style: Right-arm medium
Skill: Bowler
Teams Played: India, Kings XI Punjab, Royal Challengers Bangalore

Batting Performance

	M	Inn	No	Runs	HS	50s	Avg	SR
Tests	6	10	0	149	40	0	14.9	93.71
ODI	61	31	12	276	54*	1	14.53	89.03
T20s	7	3	0	7	6	0	2.33	43.75
IPL	51	31	11	208	34	0	10.4	113.66

Bowling & Fielding Performance

	M	Overs	Runs	Mdns	Wkts	Avg	Best	Econ
Tests	6	268.3	697	68	27	25.81	5/106	2.6
ODI	61	477.2	2404	44	69	34.84	4/31	5.04
T20s	7	18	116	1	6	19.33	2/14	6.44
IPL	51	185.2	1485	7	44	33.75	3/18	8.02

Career Performance

	First Match	Last Match
Tests	June 20, 2011 v West Indies at Sabina Park, Kingston - Jamaica	August 10, 2011 v England at Edgbaston, Birmingham
ODIs	November 18, 2007 v Pakistan at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur	October 25, 2011 v England at Eden Gardens, Kolkata
T20s	February 1, 2008 v Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne	October 29, 2011 v England at Eden Gardens, Kolkata
IPL	April 18, 2008 v Kolkata Knight Riders at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru	May 21, 2011 v Deccan Chargers at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

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.