Born on April 15, 1963, Manoj Prabhakar, was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and primarily a lower-order batsman.
This ex-Indian cricketer from Ghaziabad in
Uttar Pradesh, has pocketed quite a fair number of wickets. The Test cricket figure is 96 wickets, that in One-Day Internationals is 157, and finally, in first-class cricket the wickets collected are 385 plus. He excelled in bowling, especially slow bowling and out swingers and opening -bowling.
This classy bowler had also the prowess to serve not only as a lower-order batsman, but also sometimes as an opening batsman, aptly fortifying his team. In 1992-93, Manoj Prabhakar established the strong base for India against England.
He had bowled the renowned Kepler Wessels for 0 in successive Tests. These two ducks were the only ducks that the Wessels of South Africa had procured throughout their career, be it in Test or One-Day International.
India had emerged victorious in merely one Test out of the first 23 Tests , and later 10 among the 16 Tests , that he played.
Despair overtook him , when he was criticized on his home field at
Delhi for his poor performance . He gave though, mistakenly, 4-0-47-0 in the 1995-96 World Cup.
Prabhakar was excluded for the next match and ultimately he retired.
He also entered politics, though it was a dimly successful venture.
Manoj Prabhakar, was a fairly good player, favoring Indian cricket to a considerable extent.
