Padmanabhan Prasanth (born 22 May 1985) is an Indian former

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

er who played for

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Biography

Prasanth was born in

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...

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. He spent his entire career playing first class cricket for his native Kerala. He goes by the nickname, 'Prashu'.

Playing style

Prasanth is an

all-rounder An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are cons ...

. He is a left-handed batsmen and bowls slow left arm orthodox bowler. While not being a prodigious turner of the ball his accuracy coupled with subtle variations in pace made him ideally suited to white ball cricket.

Indian Premier League

Prasanth was bought at auction by

Kochi Tuskers Kerala Kochi Tuskers Kerala is a now defunct franchise cricket team that played in the Indian Premier League (IPL) representing the city of Kochi, Kerala, India. The team was one of two new franchises added to the IPL for the 2011 season, alongside ...

for the 2011 IPL but struggled to gain playing time in a squad that also included slow left arm orthodox options in

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and Steve O'Keefe. He had to wait until the penultimate game of the 2011 season against

Rajasthan Royals The Rajasthan Royals, also known as RR, are a professional Twenty20 cricket team based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, that competes in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Founded in 2008 as one of the initial eight franchises, the team is owned by Manoj ...

before making his debut for the franchise by which time The Tuskers hopes of making the playoffs had already been extinguished. Prasanth bowled a single over to Australian all-rounder

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which went for 18 runs with Watson striking 3 sixes in the process. To date it remains the only over he has bowled in the IPL. Prasanth was not selected for the final game of the season and the

franchise was disbanded during the offseason. Prasanth was brought by

Sunrisers Hyderabad The Sunrisers Hyderabad, also known as SRH, are a professional Twenty20 cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, that competes in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The franchise is owned by Kalanithi Maran of the Sun Group and was found ...

at both the 2013 and 2015 IPL auctions but in neither corresponding season did he make another IPL appearance.

Domestic cricket

Despite limited playing time in the IPL, Padmanabhan credits his experience training alongside his international teammates at

with an improvement in his game. He returned to domestic T20 cricket with

. Padmanabhan is Kerala's all-time leading wicket taker in T20 cricket with 64 wickets to his name.

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