Padmanabhan Prasanth (born 22 May 1985) is an Indian

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 one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

er who plays for

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

Biography

Prasanth was born in

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. 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 consi ...

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

for the

2011 IPL The 2011 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 4 or the IPL 2011, was the fourth season of the Indian Premier League, the top Twenty20 cricket league in India. The tournament was hosted in India and the opening and closing ceremonies ...

but struggled to gain playing time in a squad that also included

slow left arm orthodox Left-arm orthodox spin, Left-arm off spin also known as slow left-arm orthodox spin bowling, is a type of left-arm finger spin bowling in the sport of cricket. Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left-arm bowler using the fingers to spin ...

options in

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and

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. He had to wait until the penultimate game of the 2011 season against

Rajasthan Royals Rajasthan Royals (often abbreviated as RR) are a franchise cricket team based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Founded in 2008 as one of the initial eight IPL franchises, the team is based at the Sawai Ma ...

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 Sunrisers Hyderabad (stylised as SunRisers Hyderabad, SRH) are a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The franchise is owned by Kalanithi Maran of the SUN Group and was ...

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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prasanth, Padmanabhan Indian cricketers Kerala cricketers Kochi Tuskers Kerala cricketers Sunrisers Hyderabad cricketers 1985 births Living people Cricketers from Thiruvananthapuram